Insider Takes Helm at Merck

May 4, 2005

Merck & Co. Inc. on Thursday named a company insider to replace embattled Chief Executive Raymond Gilmartin, a move that was greeted with little enthusiasm by investors who had hoped for a high-profile outsider to turn the drugmaker around.

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