Who are MSD? After a merger with Schering-Plough in 2009, MSD is now the world’s second largest healthcare company, dealing with animal care, vaccines and pharmaceutical products. The company’s reported revenue for 2016 was $39.8 billion. Headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey, MSD now employs approximately 69,000 people worldwide. MSD in Singapore MSD operate 5 sites [...]
Who are GlaxoSmithKline? GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, based in the United Kingdom and operating in over 150 countries worldwide. Their product portfolio includes vaccines, pharmaceuticals and consumer healthcare. GSK describes itself as “the first global healthcare company to establish a presence in Singapore”. Operations in Singapore began in 1959 [...]
Reasons to Choose a Pharmaceutical or Medical Device Manufacturing Career in Singapore Singapore’s pharmaceutical and medical device industries have proven themselves to be a very strong and stable career option over the last decade. It was in the mid-1990s that the Singaporean Government decided to make pharmaceutical manufacturing a key area for the country to [...]
When you’re considering starting a career in a new industry an important factor should always be how strong the industry is. Is it currently doing well, and why? Is it an industry that’s looking to the future, giving you job (or at least, career) security for years to come? In a previous article, we discussed [...]