Ensuring Merck's Success

Though Merck's downsizing plans may have made recent headlines, its $21.493 billion in global pharmaceutical sales are certainly nothing to sneeze at. Neither is this: Merck is a huge supporter of in-plants, maintaining not one but four in-plants to serve its New Jersey and Pennsylvania offices.

David Heinbach, a 30-year Merck veteran, oversees three of them in his role as manager of reprographics and mailing services, part of Merck Creative Services. His operation in Whitehouse Station, N.J., employs seven people in reprographics and 17 in mail. Heinbach also manages a two-employee copy shop in Merck's Rahway, N.J., research headquarters and a four-employee copy shop in its Upper Gwynedd, Pa., sales headquarters. He also oversees the mail operations at each. A forth in-plant in West Point, Pa., is not under his management.