About us
Bayer is a life science company and a global leader in healthcare, agriculture and nutrition. Our innovative products are designed to address the challenges of a rapidly growing and aging population.
Profile and Organisation
With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time.
Sustainability
For Bayer, aligning corporate actions to sustainable development principles means balancing economic, ecological and social responsibilities.
Diversity and Inclusion
As a leading life science company specialising in healthcare and agriculture, Bayer encompasses values and behaviours that enable our employees to fulfill our mission of "Health for all, Hunger for none".
Our Three Divisions
Our History
It all starts with a friendship between two men, plenty of natural curiosity and two kitchen stoves. Businessman Friedrich Bayer and dyer Johann Friedrich Weskott use these to conduct experiments and eventually discover how to make the dye fuchsine. On August 1, 1863, they found the "Friedr. Bayer et. comp." company in Wuppertal-Barmen, a 19th century startup with tremendous potential.