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Choosing as our theme “Advancing the dialogue toward a healthier future,” we have provided details on the challenges we face and our performance on key issues for Merck and our stakeholders.

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Our corporate responsibility report focuses on the way we work as a team to improve our airline and better serve our customers—how we are stepping up to environmental challenges and addressing community needs, and how we work together to make every action count.

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Our five core Values are as relevant today as they were when Anita first set them out – we are always looking for new ways to bring them to life. We believe that our Values are at the heart of our commercial success and they are the key to growing our business. As we go forward we will be more creative in bringing our message to customers who are searching for brands with principles that they can trust. In doing this we will deliver more positive benefits to everyone that we touch.

Excerpt from this report, newly released by Transparency International:

Bribery in business captures news headlines around the globe and leads to massive reputational and financial repercussions for the implicated companies. Bribery, though, represents only part of the picture when profit comes at the expense of integrity and sustainability. Other corrupt practices, such as corporate fraud, cartels and undue influence on public policy, work as destructive forces that undermine fair competition, stifle economic growth and ultimately undercut companies’ own existence.

Featuring analysis of more than 75 experts, Transparency International’s 2009 Global Corruption Report lays bare these and other corruption challenges that cut across countries and industries, exposes soft spots in existing corporate anti-corruption measures, and examines promising innovation in the sector.

The 20 U.S. financial firms that have received the most bailout dollars from taxpayers awarded their top five executive officers, in the three years through 2008, pay packages worth a combined $3.2 billion. These 100 financial executives, on their way to driving the U.S. economy off a cliff, averaged $32 million each. One hundred U.S. workers making the 2008 annual average wage would have to labor over 1,000 years to make as much as these 100 executives made in three.