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| name = Organon & Co.
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| industry = [[Pharmaceuticals]]
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| predecessor = Organon International (founded 1923)<ref>{{cite web |title=Organon International 1923 |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp28940/organon-international |publisher=Science Museum Group |access-date=4 June 2021}}</ref>
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| hq_location_city = {{nowrap|[[Jersey City, New Jersey]]}}
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| key_people = Kevin Ali
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| revenue = {{Increase}} {{US$|6.26 billion|link=yes}} (2023)
| operating_income = {{Decrease}} {{US$|1.26 billion}} (2023)
| net_income = {{Increase}} {{US$|1.02 billion}} (2023)
| assets = {{Increase}} {{US$|12.1 billion}} (2023)
| equity = {{IncreaseNegative}} {{US$|-70 million}} (2023)
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| footnotes = <ref name=AR2023>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1821825/000162828024006733/ogn-20231231.htm |title=2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K) |date=February 26, 2024 |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission}}</ref>
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'''Organon & Co.''' is
==History==
Organon was founded
In 1948, Organon acquired the [[Newhouse Research Site|Newhouse research site]] in [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom]]. The production of [[cortisone]] was initiated in 1953.<ref name="Years" />
In 1962, it bought the stock of the [[Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek]]. The company name was changed to '''Koninklijke Zwanenberg-Organon''' ('''KZO'''), and it merged with the fibre producer AKU in 1969 to become AKZO, later Akzo Nobel. Organon was the human health care business unit of [[Akzo Nobel]]. In 2004, Organon acquired active-pharmaceutical-ingredient producer [[Diosynth]].<ref name="Years">{{cite web|url=http://www.organon.com/about/facts/history/index.asp?ComponentID=10448&SourcePageID=9171 |title=81 Years of Organon at a Glance|publisher=Organon|access-date=19 June 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050309062056/http://www.organon.com/about/facts/history/index.asp?ComponentID=10448&SourcePageID=9171 |archive-date = 9 March 2005}}</ref>
Organon was initially located in West Orange, New Jersey.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Organon, West Orange, New Jersey. General entrance view |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2018732125/ |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bagli |first=Charles V. |date=2000-03-20 |title=Known as Poacher, New Jersey Is Faced By Rival to the West |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/20/nyregion/known-as-poacher-new-jersey-is-faced-by-rival-to-the-west.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-03-02 |title=Coming up on the inside... |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524892-800-coming-up-on-the-inside/ |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=New Scientist |language=en-US}}</ref> In November 2007, [[Schering-Plough]] acquired Organon BioSciences and veterinary pharmaceutical company [[Intervet]] from [[Akzo Nobel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/11/20/32697.aspx|title=Schering-Plough Acquires Organon BioSciences|date=20 November 2007|publisher=Medical Net News|access-date=19 June 2010}}</ref> Schering-Plough transferred Organon to its headquarters in Jersey City, [[New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Why Germany and Much of the European Union is Losing its Pharmaceutical Industry|url=http://www.aei.org/files/2003/03/18/20030318_Calfee.pdf|publisher=American Enterprise Institute|access-date=21 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709033157/http://www.aei.org/files/2003/03/18/20030318_Calfee.pdf|archive-date=9 July 2013}}</ref> Two years later, Schering-Plough merged with [[Merck & Co.]], known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Merck and Schering-Plough to Complete Merger Today |url=http://www.merck.com/newsroom/news-release-archive/corporate/2009_1103.html |date=November 3, 2009 |access-date=2010-07-16 |publisher=Merck & Co. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091107063055/http://www.merck.com/newsroom/news-release-archive/corporate/2009_1103.html |archive-date=November 7, 2009 }}</ref>
In May 2020, Merck & Co. announced that ''Organon & Co.'' will be the name of "the pending spin-off of its women’s health, legacy products, and biosimilars businesses, which the company says is on track to be completed by the end of the first half in 2021."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Merck & Co. To Move Global HQ; Names Organon as New Spin-off|url=https://dcatvci.org/pharma-news/6513-merck-co-to-move-global-hq-names-organon-as-new-spin-off|access-date=2020-08-19|website=dcatvci.org|date=14 May 2020}}</ref> Merck completed the spinoff and Organon & Co. became a publicly traded company on 3 June 2021. A copy of the Information Statement sent to Merck shareholders was filed with the U.S. SEC on April 20, 2021, in a Form 10-12B/A, Exhibit 99.1 <ref>{{Cite web|title=Merck SEC Information Statement| url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1821825/000119312521140380/d56612dex991.htm|access-date=2023-01-19|website=sec.gov|date=20 Apr 2021}}</ref>
In November 2021, the business announced it would acquire Forendo Pharma and its lead compound, a potentially first-in-class oral [[17β-hydroxysteroid]] [[dehydrogenase]] type 1 inhibitor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/organon-to-acquire-forendo-pharma/?s=79|title=Organon to Acquire Forendo Pharma}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biospace.com/article/merck-s-women-s-health-spinoff-organon-acquires-finland-s-forendo/?s=79|title = Women's Health Gets a Boost as Merck Spinoff Acquires New Pipeline}}</ref>
==Products==
Their products are divided into three main categories: [[women's health]] (27% of revenue), [[biosimilars]] (8% of revenue), and established brands (64% of revenue). Women's health products are mainly contraceptives such as ''Nexplanon'', a three-year reversible contraceptive implant, and fertility drugs such as ''Puregon'', a follicle-stimulating hormone drug.<ref name="202210k">{{cite web |title=Organon & Co. |url=https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001821825/dbe1f0cc-7777-4da0-8dac-df1f56d85fab.pdf |website=SEC |publisher=Organon & Co. |access-date=30 September 2023}}</ref> Biosimilars provide treatment for oncology and immunology at potentially lower cost than other FDA approved treatments.<ref name="202210k"/><ref name="FDAbiosimilars">{{cite web |title=Biosimilars |url=https://www.fda.gov/drugs/therapeutic-biologics-applications-bla/biosimilars |website=FDA |publisher=FDA |access-date=30 September 2023}}</ref> Organon makes the biosimilar ''Hadlima'' which it compares to [[Humira]]. Their established brands are heavily reliant on sales outside the United States of drugs with generic competition. The cardiovascular products such as ''Vytorin'' make a combined 24% of the company revenue.<ref name="202210k"/> Revenue figures stated with 2022 figures.
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