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About Bayer
Global Organization & History
Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time.
The Bayer Group is managed as a life science company with three divisions – Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health and Crop Science – and the Animal Health business unit, which are also our reporting segments. The Enabling Functions support the operational business.
Organization of Bayer
Business Operations Are the Responsibility of the Divisions
The Pharmaceuticals division focuses on prescription products, especially for cardiology and women’s healthcare, and on specialty therapeutics in the areas of oncology, hematology and ophthalmology. The division also comprises the radiology business, which markets diagnostic imaging equipment together with the necessary contrast agents.
The Consumer Health division markets mainly nonprescription (OTC = over-the-counter) products in the dermatology, nutritional supplement, analgesic, digestive health, cold, allergy, sinus and flu categories.
The Crop Science division is a world-leading agriculture enterprise with businesses in seeds, crop protection and nonagricultural pest control. The Crop Protection / Seeds operating unit markets a broad portfolio of high-value seeds and innovative pest management solutions, while at the same time providing extensive customer service for sustainable agriculture. The Environmental Science operating unit provides products and services for professional nonagricultural applications, such as vector and pest control and forestry.
Enabling Functions are responsible for providing the functional strategy, framework and guidelines as well as functional advice.
Bayer History
Bayer was founded over 150 years ago: On August 1, 1863 a merchant named Friedrich Bayer and a master dyer named Johann Friedrich Weskott set up a small dyestuffs factory in Barmen, now a district of the city of Wuppertal, Germany. And so Bayer's long history of innovation and pioneering begins.
How it all began
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