Virtual Annual General Meeting On May 28

Mer­ck, a sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny, will hold its Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing this year in vir­tu­al form on May 28. The com­pa­ny is thus mak­ing use of the pos­si­bil­i­ties afford­ed by the Ger­man leg­is­la­tor in view of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic. With­in the scope of the Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing, a res­o­lu­tion on the div­i­dend pro­pos­al of € 1.30 per share will also be vot­ed on. Pay­ment is planned for June 3.

The Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing will be pub­licly web­cast in its entire­ty on the Inter­net. Phys­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion is not pos­si­ble. The invi­ta­tion will be pub­lished by May 7, in keep­ing with the offi­cial dead­line. Notes on exer­cis­ing share­hold­er rights and fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the vir­tu­al Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing will be avail­able as of May 7 on the web­site www.merckgroup.com/agm and in the invitation.

Mer­ck had already announced back in March that it would post­pone its Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing orig­i­nal­ly planned for April 24 and hold it in vir­tu­al form as soon as pos­si­ble in order to pro­tect the health and safe­ty of employ­ees and shareholders.