< Company Profiles / Bayer
01.03.02


Summary

1. The Company
1.1. Industry Areas
1.2. Market Share and Importance
1.3. History

2. Products and Projects
2.1. Bayer Healthcare
2.2. Bayer CropScience
2.3. Bayer Chemicals
2.4. Bayer Polymers

3. Who, where, how much?
3.1. Structure
3.1.1. Bayer AG / The Bayer group
3.1.2. Reorganisation Process: Bayer's Corporate Shake Up
3.1.3. Embattled Drug Unit
3.1.4. NYSE
3.2. Locations
3.3. Management
3.3.1. Members of the Board of Management of Bayer AG
3.3.2. Supervisory Board
3.4. Ownership
3.5. Bayer Plc: Offices in the UK (1), Management (2)
3.5.1. Offices in the UK
3.5.2. Management
3.6. Bayer AG: Subsidiaries (1) & Alliances (2)
3.6.1. Subsidiaries
3.6.2. Alliances

4. Influence / Lobbying
4.1. Lobby Groups
4.1.1. Bayer's lobby activities on the global level
4.1.2. Bayer's lobby activities in the United States
4.1.3. Bayer's lobby activities in Europe
4.2. Influencing Research and Education
4.3. Bayer and Public Relations (PR) Companies
4.3.1 PR Companies used by Bayer
4.3.2. PR stories involving Bayer

5. Corporate Crimes
5.1. Bayer and War Crimes
5.2. Scams, Blags and Corporate Bullying
5.3. Pharmaceutical Phailings
5.4. Pesticides and Poisons
5.5. Abusing Workers

6. Further Links, Contacts and Resources

Bayer AG
A Corporate Profile

By Corporate Watch UK
Completed March 2002

6. Further Links, Contacts and Resources

Groups Campaigning on Bayer

  • Coalition against BAYER-Dangers (CBG formerly Bayerwatch) www.cbgnetwork.org
    Amazing German campaigning and research group focusing on Bayer. Active since the early 1980's. Campaigning for environmental protection and secure jobs at BAYER - worldwide! They have an excellent website with an archive of their Keycode Bayer newsletter available on-line
  • BayerHazard www.bayerhazard.com
    Web-based activists focusing on Bayer's involvement in GM crops. Downloadable leaflets and other agit-prop.
  • Pesticides Action Network (PAN) UK
    Homepage: http://www.pan-uk.org/

Useful Information about the Chemical Industry

  • Investigative Report: 'Toxic Deception: Chemical Industry Trade and Research Associations', by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle and the Center for Public Integrity, Common Courage Press, 1999. (http://www.publicintegrity.org/toxic_deception.html)
    Toxic Deception shows how the industry uses campaign contributions, junkets, job offers, 'scorched-earth' courtroom strategies, misleading advertising and multimillion-dollar public relations campaigns to keep their products on the market no matter how great the potential dangers.
  • -A list of Chemical Industry Trade and Research Associations by the Centre for Public Integrity (http://www.publicintegrity.org/toxic_tradegrps.html)
    Find out how the chemical industry spins, distorts, and twists the facts to suit its purposes -- and to prevent the public from finding out how dangerous their products really are, at: http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/
  • -As a free service to the chemical industry, ChemExpo provides information on an elaborate list of trade associations. http://www.chemexpo.com/info/associations.cfm
  • -BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A RESOURCE WEBSITE, Chemical Companies. http://www.business-humanrights.org/Chemical.htm
    Information about lobbying efforts Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Report 'The Other Drugs War: Big Pharma's 625 Washington Lobbyists', July 2001,
    by Public Citizen, Congress Watch
    http://dev.citizen.org/documents/pharma.pdf
  • Link to up-to-date stories on Bayer by the Financial Times http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT31CBQFGQC&live=true

 

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