Merlot Industries

"Building a better tomorrow."

- Company slogan

Merlot Industries is an antagonistic organization in the world of RWBY, appearing as antagonists in the video game RWBY: Grimm Eclipse. Founded and commanded by Dr. Merlot, they seek to experiment on Grimm and develop a new species of them superior to any existing Grimm, Humans, or Faunus.

Past
Dr. Merlot founded Merlot Industries as a artificial intelligence and genetic experimentation laboratory in the ill-fated Vale settlement of Mountain Glenn. However, due to Merlot's crazed and delusional obsession with the Grimm, they began luring Grimm to the settlement in order to perform their experiments, leading to disastrous results and eventually causing the horrible overflow of Grimm into the area and the deaths of all of those who lived there, including most (if not all) of the company's workers, staff, and scientists. Merlot was also presumed deceased.