The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing (20 - 21) Manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 September 2025
Employment effect (start)
18 September 2025
Foreseen end date
30 September 2028
Description
Pharmaceutical multinational Merck, is to create 200 new jobs in Cork over the next three years.
The new jobs are due to a significant investment and the opening of a new manufacturing site in Blarney Business Park, on the outskirts of Cork city.
Merck currently employs approximately 3,600 employees in Ireland, across a number of different sites. The company employs some 68,000 people globally in 120 different countries.
The new site in Cork will be the company’s first manufacturing facility designed for ‘full climate-neutral operations’ and will be powered entirely by 100pc renewable electricity. This marks a milestone in the company’s ambition to achieve climate neutrality by 2040.
Eurofound (2025), Merck, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 204098, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/204098.
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