Merck is moving its global headquarters slightly.

After five years at Schering-Ploughs old 100-acre campus in Kenilworth, the company announced plans to transition its base to its 210-acre site in Rahway. The two New Jersey towns are less than 10 miles apart. The move, quietly announced in the companys Q1 and reported on by ROINJ, is slated to be completed by 2023.

The shift will not only mean moving the headquarters but also consolidating the offices scattered across New Jersey, including inMadison, Whitehouse West and Branchburg. No employees are expected to be laid off, the company said.

We announced our intention to consolidate our New Jersey campuses into a single New Jersey location in Rahway, the company said in an emailed statement. Rahway, the birthplace of lifechanging scientific breakthroughs that have improved human health over the last century, will once again be Mercks global headquarters by the end of 2023. We remain committed to New Jersey and invested in the state as the home of our global headquarters.

The move to Rahway is something of a homecoming for Merck. The pharma giant was based in Rahway until 1992, until it moved to Whitehouse Station in Readington, a small town in rural western New Jersey. The company hired a legendary architectural firm to build what became known as the Merck Headquarters Building on woods and old farmland, a jagged hexagon, circumscribed by trees, with trees nestled in the center.

In 2012, Merck said they would shutter the campus and, after a shakeup that saw the closing of the would-be new headquarters in Summit, NJ and the layoff of 8,500 employees worldwide, moved their base to Kenilworth. The Merck Headquarters Building has since been purchased by UNICOM and renamed UNICOM Science and Technology Park.

Although originally established in 1889 in New York City then as the US subsidiary of the German Merck Merck built a manufacturing facility in Rahway in 1902, and, with the addition of research facilities, the site became the headquarters until the 1992 move.

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