---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-025524"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MRK"
cik: "0000310158"
company_name: "Merck & Co., Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T23:28:29.384682+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Peter C. Wendell to retire from Merck board at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- Peter C. Wendell notified Merck on Feb 15, 2024, of his retirement from the board.
- Retirement effective as of the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 28, 2024.
- Retirement is not due to any disagreement with Merck regarding operations, policies, or practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-025524
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MRK
- cik: 0000310158
- company_name: Merck & Co., Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310158/000110465924025524/0001104659-24-025524-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310158/000110465924025524/tm246758d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-025524
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-025524.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-025524.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter C. Wendell departed as Director at Merck & Co., Inc..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 15, 2024, Peter C. Wendell gave notice to Merck & Co., Inc. (the “Company”) of his intention to retire from the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) as of the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 28, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310158/000110465924025524/0001104659-24-025524-index.htm

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