Merck KgA.................

Merck KgA was formed more than 100 years ago and from then it was known for its chemical manufacturing and then some 50 years back it started diversifying and after its investment in Biopharmaceuticals with Merck Serono in year 2006 for $11 Billion, today it has made an offer of $7.2 Billion for Millipore, earlier the speculation was  that thermo had made offer of around $5 Billion for millipore.......what I had assumed was companies like Lifetech , Qiagen, thermo type will be interested in this merger...with this acquisition now we have many more M&A to watch from  companies like Merck (Large Pharma) in these coming 2 years.