om the start Merck was concerned with product quality. This concern is shown in one of Emanuel's letters to a customer: "I guarantee you consistent purity of my preparations and will compensate you for any loss arising from an impure preparation." After his death, in 1888 "pure preparations" came onto the market labeled "for analysis." They were monumental in that they created a standard by which others could compare due to a newly reached level of "binding purity" with in the products.
             By the 1900s Merck was known worldwide, doing business on every continent. Come 1903/04, the factory in Darmstadt had out grown its limits and had to be relocated to where it stands now. But with World War I, raw materials and laborers were lacking paired with a growing need for pharmaceutical drugs. As a result, Merck partnered with Boehringer Mannheim and Knoll, which brought to the market an assortment of "preparations" in a tablet form. These drugs were marketed under the trademark MBK. Unfortunately, due to World War I, Merck lost some of its foreign subsidiaries. One of these was its U.S. subsidiary, founded in 1889 by the grandson of Emanuel Merck, George Merck, under the name of Merck & Co. Thus, Merck & Co became independent as an American company, forming one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. An agreement was made saying that Merck in the U.S. and Canada would use the name Merck & Co. while in mostly Europe and the rest of the world would use the name Merck KGaA.
             It was inevitable that many different business decisions were needed to take place, so in 1920 the company formed a board of directors. This being the first time the company's management structure had been changed in seventy years, it opened up an opportunity for non-family members to take part in the management of the company. The entire board of directors discussed all pertinent matters to the comp...