Introduction

Bayer is a research-based global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. It employs 93,700 people all over the world (52,400 in Europe, 16,200 in North America, 13,900 in Asia/Pacific and the remaining 11,200 in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East). For fiscal 2005 it had sales of €27,383.