| Bayer AG offers pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and health care products; agricultural products; and polymers. It operates in three groups: HealthCare, CropScience, and MaterialScience. The HealthCare group offers pharmaceuticals products for the treatment of urinary tract infections and severe hospital infections; and for cardiovascular risk management, including diabetes, urology, and oncology. It also provides biological products, such as recombinant protein therapies and blood plasma products. This group also develops consumer care products, such as over the counter medications, vitamins, and nutritional supplements. It also develops diagnostics products that serve in the assessment and management of health in various areas, including infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, oncology, virology, womens health, and diabetes, as well as offers products for the health care of animals. The CropScience group provides chemical crop protection products, seeds, and integrated plant biotechnology solutions for agricultural and nonagricultural uses. This group offers insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides for the control of insects, weeds, and fungi, as well as products for professional pest control; and the green industry that include the treatment of golf courses, lawn care, and industrial vegetation management, as well as offers conventional seeds and plant biotechnology products. The MaterialScience group provides polycarbonates, such as polycarbonates, polycarbonate blends, polycarbonate films, and sheets; and thermoplastic polyurethanes granulates. This group offers cellulose derivatives, plastic films, and other additives; and offers a portfolio of products, such as tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, and niobium, and their alloys and compounds for industrial customers in the aerospace, medical, chemical, electronic, lighting, tooling, and optical components industries. Bayer distributes its products through a network of distributors, governmental agencies, wholesalers, pharmacies, and hospitals, as well as directly to patients in North America, Western Europe, and Asia. The company was formed under the name Farbenfabriken Bayer AG in 1951 and changed its name to Bayer AG in 1972. Bayer is headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany. |
