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A. Merial is a joint venture between two large human pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co. and sanofi-aventis. Merial is the worlds second largest animal health company (in terms of sales), operating in more than 150 countries. Merial employs about 5,000 people and had revenues in 2007 of over US$2.2 billion all from animal health product sales.
