The new Bayer Group
 
The Bayer Group has been reorganized – faster and more sustainably than ever before. The new Bayer Group is flexible, competent and focused on its core businesses and particularly on research, paving the way for long-term growth and a sustained increase in corporate value. The new corporate structure comprises a holding company (Bayer AG), three subgroups and three service companies. Bayer Chemicals (with the exception of H.C. Starck and Wolff Walsrode) and some areas of the MaterialScience business area are being transferred to a new company called Lanxess, which is to be listed on the stock exchange by the start of 2005.
 
 
Bayer AG
Bayer AG is the management holding company for the Bayer Group. It is headed by a four-member Board of Management, which is supported by the Corporate Center. Global coordination of the subgroups and service groups is carried out through Community Management, a Group-wide network of teams and working groups with defined assignments, responsibilities and procedures. Their role is to share experience, discuss and decide on a wide range of tasks and issues and implement policies and directives adopted for the entire Bayer Group.
 
Bayer HealthCare
Bayer HealthCare AG, which is headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, operates worldwide in the following divisions: Animal Health, Biological Products, Consumer Care, Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics (Self-Testing Systems and Professional Testing Systems). It is one of the world’s largest suppliers of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and other medical products to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases in people and animals. Together with its German subsidiaries Bayer Vital and KVP Kieler Pharma + Veterinärprodukte GmbH and a large number of foreign affiliates, Bayer HealthCare does business in more than one hundred countries.

Bayer CropScience
Bayer CropScience AG, which is based in Monheim, Germany, is one of the world’s leading innovative plant science companies. Its activities cover crop protection, seed treatment, plant biotechnology and non-agricultural pest control. Bayer CropScience aims to become the world’s top crop science company through the expertise of its staff, its innovative products, its unique research platform and its customer focus. Offices and agencies in more than 120 countries ensure that it is always close to its customers.

Bayer MaterialScience
Bayer MaterialScience AG is a leading manufacturer of high-quality polymers. A large proportion of sales is generated by products that occupy leading positions on the world market. The main success factors of the company are its efficiency, closeness to the customer and expertise in innovative system solutions. Its portfolio includes polycarbonates, polyurethanes, coatings and adhesive raw materials, thermoplastic polyurethanes and inorganic basic chemicals. Bayer MaterialScience includes the Wolff Walsrode and H.C. Starck subsidiaries, which have an excellent position in specialist niche markets and contribute valuable additions to the portfolio. It has facilities at 40 sites worldwide.

Bayer Business Services
Bayer Business Services (BBS) is the Bayer Group’s IT-based competence center providing business, administrative and scientific services. Its offering ranges from technical consultancy to the performance of business processes in the areas of procurement, human resources, logistics, IT operations and accounting. The company also groups together a number of subsidiaries providing hosting, travel and media services.

Bayer Technology Services
Bayer Technology Services provides technology services and innovations for all major Bayer sites around the world and other companies at Bayer’s chemical park sites. It specializes in the development, planning and construction of production facilities and optimization of established products and processes for Bayer’s subgroups and other companies.

Bayer Industry Services
As operator of the largest German chemical park network, which spans the sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen, Krefeld-Uerdingen and Brunsbüttel, Bayer Industry Services supports efficient manufacturing operations. It provides a custom-tailored portfolio of core infrastructure, safety, utility, waste management and analytical services. More than 35 companies at the chemical park sites, including Bayer’s subgroups, use its extensive range of services.