Thursday, February 28, 2008

Bayer AG Spring Financial News Conference
Full Year 2007 Results

Location: Leverkusen, BayKomm (Bayer‘s Communication Center)

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2008-02-28

Wenning: 2007 was Bayer's most successful year to date

Sales grew 11.8 percent to EUR 32,385 million
EBITDA before special items advanced 21.4 percent to EUR 6,777 million
Performance target for 2007 exceeded: underlying EBITDA margin of 20.9 percent
EBIT before special items climbed 23.2 percent to EUR 4,287 million
Group net income totaled EUR 4,711 million - boosted by divestiture proceeds
Further earnings increase expected for 2008

Here you will find full details of the Spring Financial News Conference:

Statement in written form and presentation charts of Werner Wening for download

Statement in written form and presentation charts of Klaus Kühn for download

Press kit

Recording of the presentations and the discussion:

Video with Charts

Audio as MP3 and Podcast

Speaker:

Werner Wenning,
CEO of Bayer AG

Klaus Kühn,
CFO of Bayer AG

Forward-looking statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and forecasts made by Bayer Group management. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of the company and the estimates given here. These factors include those discussed in our public reports filed with the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (including our Form 20-F). The company assumes no liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments.