Bayer

The famous German pharmaceutical company Bayer has been providing consumers with the most important medicines from various branches of medicine for a century and a half. The corporation’s specialists are the inventors of many pharmacological substances, the most significant and famous of which today are aspirin and heroin.

Brand History

In 1863 Friedrich Bayer and Johann Friedrich Weskott founded the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG in Barmen. Almost immediately, the company’s pharmacists learned how to produce acetylsalicylic acid, which had previously been discovered only in 1852 by the chemist Charles Gerard. This substance was a modification of salicyl extracted from willow bark. In 1899, “Aspirin” was acetylsalicylic acid, which was sold under the registered brand name “Bayer” throughout the world.

However, during the First World War, the United States confiscated the assets and trademarks of Bayer, so Aspirin lost its trademark status in this country, Britain and France. In these countries, to this day, various preparations of acetylsalicylic acid are produced under “Aspirin” by numerous trademarks. In other countries, including Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Germany and many others, Aspirin is still considered a patented drug from the Bayer brand.

In 1904, the brand acquired its world-famous logo in the form of a cross formed by the intersection of the company name in the letter “Y”. From 1958 to the present day, the world’s largest luminous advertising, the Bayer cross, stands near the headquarters of Bayer. Due to the fact that Bayer was not allowed to put this logo on the packaging of aspirin, they decided to put it directly on the tablets so that consumers could remember the brand that released the drug.

The rights to the brand name, as well as other corporation assets during the First World War, were transferred to the USA, Canada and other states, which led to the reassignment of these assets in different countries to Sterling Drug (Sterling Winthrop) corporations. In Germany, Bayer became part of the German pharmaceutical conglomerate IG Farben, which later became the financial backbone of the entire Nazi regime. This conglomerate owned a 42,5% stake in Bayer, which at that time produced Zyklon B, a substance that was actively used in the gas chambers of German death camps. Throughout the Second World War, the labor of prisoners was used in the activities of the corporation, especially for this purpose people who were held captive in the Mauthausen camps were often used. Bayer often used concentration camp prisoners to conduct various chemical experiments, many of which ended in death. For example, Jewish women were the first test subjects for the use of previously unknown hormonal drugs.

After the Allied victory in World War II for Nazi crimes, IG Farben Corporation was split and Bayer became an independent corporation again. Its then director was sentenced to 7 years for aiding the Nazis, which did not prevent him from leading the company again after his release in 1956. As early as 1978, Bayer acquired the Miles Laboratories Corporation, along with its subsidiaries Cutter Laboratories and Miles Canada, along with their product lines. In 1994, the acquired Sterling Winthrop dealer network was merged with Miles Laboratories, reclaiming Bayer’s right to its own logo in the US and Canada. In Canada, Bayer also succeeded in reclaiming the Aspirin brand. In 2010, Bayer Corporation bought Oakland-based veterinary company Bomac Group for an undisclosed sum of money.

Throughout the history of the Bayer brand, many significant pharmacological substances have been discovered, among which it is worth mentioning:

• aspirin, which is an analgesic, anticoagulant and antipyretic;
• heroin, discovered by Bayer as a cough suppressant, but in fact today is a hard drug;
• prontosil, the first identified sulfonamide;
• Levitra – a remedy that can overcome erectile dysfunction;
• ciprofloxacin – an antibacterial drug aimed at combating anthrax and infections of the urinary system;
• polycarbonate – a substance from which plastic products are produced;
• polyurethane is a polymer with a wide range of applications.

Company Assortment

A wide range of products from Bayer forms many world-famous brands that are part of the above-mentioned corporation. Corporation products help to solve some modern problems at the highest level. The growing elderly population around the world calls for improved global health and food security. At the same time, Bayer contributes to facilitating the treatment of many diseases, ensuring the supply of quality medicines and food for people and animals around the world. The assets of Bayer products affect the biochemical processes in the body of living people and animals. Active ingredients promote positive molecular processes or make negative ones impossible.

In the modern world, Bayer has several main areas of activity, in each of which one or another product of the company prevails. For example, the Pharmaceuticals division produces pharmaceutical products for cardiological and gynecological purposes, special oncological, hematological and ophthalmological products, radiological products necessary for X-ray surgery, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The products of another division – Consumer Health – are OTC drugs (Claritin, Aspirin, Bepanthen and others):

• dermatological;
• painkillers;
• antihistamines;
• anti-cold;
• dietary supplements;
• means for the treatment of the gastrointestinal tract;
• children’s and adult vitamin complexes;
• sunscreen means;
• drugs that prevent cardiovascular disease.

Bayer’s Crop Science division focuses on producing high quality seeds, innovative crop protection products, a program for clients to build modern agriculture, and pest control products for agricultural products. Products for pets and farm animals are represented in the corporation by the Animal Health division.

Production capacity

The geography of Bayer corporation enterprises is scattered all over the world. Its headquarters are located in Germany, France, Canada and the USA, Makrolon production facilities are located in Belgium, as well as polyurethane production in Antwerp. In Italy there are 5 enterprises for the production of medicines, in the Netherlands there are 8 such plants, including subsidiaries. The departments of marketing and sales, research and production are also headquartered in the Netherlands. The Philippines is responsible for the production of baygon, autan and canestene.

“Bayer AG” includes today 3 groups of subsidiaries and 3 service companies managed by one holding corporation without interaction with each other:

• CropScience;
• HealthCare;
• Material Science;
• Business Services;
• Technology Services;
• Currenta.

Bayer CropScience is engaged in the production of crop protection products and control of non-agricultural pests, breeding of various plant seeds. Today, this company is a world market leader in innovation in the agricultural sector, as well as genetic engineering of food products. CropScience is currently working with Daimler AG and Archer Daniels Midland Company to develop jatropha-based biofuels.

Bayer HealthCare is a subsidiary of Bayer responsible for pharmaceutical manufacturing. This firm researches, develops, manufactures and distributes products for maintaining and improving health. It is this company that represents the above pharmacological divisions that produce medicines and preparations of one plan or another.

Bayer Material Science is a firm that supplies high-tech polymers and develops solutions for everyday consumer problems. Bayer Business Services maintains the information infrastructure and provides technical support for Bayer’s operations in North America. Bayer Technology Services designs and builds the corporation’s factories. Currenta supplies raw materials for the chemical industry, disposes of its waste, maintains infrastructure, is responsible for its safety and professional training of employees in this industry.

Quality control

The international pharmacological corporation “Bayer” in all its activities pursues the implementation of high quality standards for its products. The Russian division of Bayer works using a quality management system, thanks to which access to production is open to all supervisory authorities, auditors and other structures that monitor the proper implementation of the quality of products manufactured and sold by the company.

Since Bayer does not have its own production facilities in Russia, it uses the possibilities of contract manufacturing at certified domestic factories, such as the pharmaceutical plant Medsintez, FGBU ARRIAH, the pharmaceutical plant NTFF Polisan. These enterprises work according to the quality standards of pharmaceutical products approved by Russian legislation, which is additionally checked by a special audit from the Bayer holding.

The quality of manufactured products is determined by their compliance with the requirements that were originally put forward to it by state legislation and internal regulatory documents of Bayer. All series of medicines are multi-stage tested during production, and then when they are imported into Russia through certification and declaration. The corporation has no problems in communication with the end consumer, since its representatives always interact with both consumers and healthcare workers and government officials. Any complaint about the quality of products manufactured by Bayer is considered both in the context of the manufacturer and in the management structures of the company. Based on the results of numerous examinations, a decision is made on how to change the unsatisfactory characteristics of manufactured products in the future.

company in the world

Bayer Corporation is an international company with expertise in the areas of healthcare and agriculture. About 302 representative offices are located today in 75 countries around the world. The basis of the corporation’s activities are the principles of economic stability, sustainable growth and high social responsibility.

In 2008, the Canadian division of the corporation was recognized as one of the “Top 100 Employers in Canada” by Mediacorp Canada Inc, and later one of the best employers in Toronto by the Toronto Star newspaper. The US division of the company has 85 points out of 100 in the issue of calculating the corporate equality index in 2011 in the campaign for the observance of human rights regarding tolerance towards sexual minorities.

Bayer’s management structures recently announced the acquisition of US over-the-counter drug company Merck & Co for $14,2 billion. This will allow us to gain leadership in the core market in North and Latin America, as well as take second place in the world in this area. Forecasts say that this transaction will lead to a 2% increase in net income in the year following the purchase. Bayer’s chairman of the board considers this expansion to be very important for the corporation’s operations and plans to keep going.

This OTC symbiosis will help Bayer’s 8800 employees and Merck & Co’s 2000 employees work closely together to build Bayer’s new portfolio of OTC products from both entities. The categories of over-the-counter products will, as before, be dermatological drugs, remedies for gastrointestinal diseases, colds, flu, allergies, and vitamin-mineral complexes. The cooperation of the two giants will help to introduce, according to the concluded agreement, OTC cardiovascular drugs, which annually bring up to 2 billion dollars in profit.

The acquisition boosted the value of Bayer’s shares by 2% on the international stock market.

Activity of the company

Bayer Corporation is an innovative world leader in the fields of seed protection, plant protection, biotechnology, conservation agriculture. The company’s products are high quality seeds, innovative systems of chemical and biological plant protection. Recognizing the need for the integrity of the agricultural system, Bayer is developing 5 main areas that can make a breakthrough in the agricultural sector:

• innovation and research;
• development of agricultural regions;
• intensification of agriculture;
• health and food security guarantees;
• broad partnership.

In the research and innovation industry, Bayer invests about 10% of its profits every year, which makes the company the best developer of seeds and effective crop protection. To help alleviate poverty around the world, Bayer is helping small farmers learn how to grow the maximum amount of food on their land, some of which they can use for food and sell the rest. To help plants fight climate change, Bayer is working on biological and chemical tools that can be beneficial in this context. Also, the corporation’s specialists minimize the impact of their own production on those processes that in themselves cause climate change.

Where can you buy Bayer products?

ZDRAVZONA online pharmacy

Bayer products can be purchased not only in retail chains around the world, but also on the Internet. For example, the most popular products from the company are available in the ZDRAVZONA online pharmacy. Here, any consumer can easily find Rennie chewable tablets that help with heartburn and stomach pain, effervescent Aspirin-Bayer, which helps to cope with moderate pain, fever and inflammatory processes in adults, Alka-Seltzer effervescent hangover tablets and many other over-the-counter effective medical products. funds.

Internet pharmacy “36,6”

Almost every retail pharmacy, as well as an online pharmacy, has products from Bayer. The most frequent request in the search for drugs from this brand on the Internet is the famous aspirin, which can be purchased, for example, at the 36,6 online pharmacy. Aspirin-Bayer in effervescent form very quickly relieves pain of various etiologies, so many network users want to buy this drug inexpensively online without a prescription.

Internet pharmacy ZdravCity

When it comes to purchasing prescription drugs from various companies, not all online pharmacies can meet such requests from patients. However, the ZdravCity online pharmacy has a large assortment of prescription drugs manufactured by Bayer Corporation. To prevent venous thromboembolism after extensive surgical interventions on the lower extremities, the company’s specialists have developed a special prescription drug Xarelto, which can be purchased at this online pharmacy. Also presented here is the drug Levitra – a drug against erectile dysfunction of directed action with proven effectiveness. A prescription from a doctor is also required to purchase this drug. In the ZdravCity online pharmacy, you can also buy an antifungal drug Mycospor from Bayer, which will be effective for pathogenic skin mycoses, epidermophytosis of the trunk, hands or feet, candidiasis, pityriasis versicolor and other pathological processes.