Bayer Worldwide

Europe is Bayer's "Home Market"

In 2006 Bayer posted sales of nearly EUR 13 billion on the European market – a good 40 percent of the Group total. A comprehensive distribution network along with major production facilities in Germany, Belgium, France, the U.K., Italy, Spain and Finland give Bayer a strong presence in this important economic region, which has a population of almost half a billion people in the 27 E.U. countries alone.

Bayer has established its own companies or branches in virtually every country in eastern Europe.

In 2006 the company’s European sites accounted for around 45 percent of Bayer's worldwide capital expenditures and 65 percent of spending on research and development.

The Group employed a total of 57,800 people in its European companies on December 31, 2006.

Europe
Sales	€14,353 million (+13.4 %)*
Employees	56,200
R&D expenses	€1,836 million
Companies	236**

sales by market, percentage increase from previous year (as of Dec. 31, 2007)

consolidated subsidiaries (as of Dec. 31, 2006)

Main production centers

Bayer is safeguarding the international competitiveness of its European production sites by setting up manufacturing and logistics competence centers in the region.

Bayer AG has ten sites in Germany.

The five main Bayer sites in Germany are in Leverkusen, Dormagen, Uerdingen, Wuppertal and Brunsbüttel. The oldest site – in Wuppertal – was established more than 130 years ago. A further production site is Bayer Bitterfeld GmbH in Saxony-Anhalt.

Bayer CropScience has its headquarters and research and development center in Monheim as well as production sites in Frankfurt, Knapsack and Wolfenbüttel.

For example, one of Bayer MaterialScience's two major production facilities for Makrolon® is located at Antwerp, Belgium. It is also at Antwerp that the new melt polycarbonate process was first implemented. This is a faster, more environmentally friendly production method that provides an even greater guarantee of quality and reliability. Bayer has two production sites in Belgium, employing more than 1,100 of the company’s total Belgian workforce of around 1,550.

Bayer Schering Pharma employs about 600 people in Turku. They are involved in the development and production of long-acting, polymer-based pharmaceuticals in the fields of women's health care and oncology. Bayer's total workforce in Finland is just under 760.

The European headquarters of Bayer CropScience is located in Lyon, France. This subgroup has production plants in Villefranche/Saône and Marle-sur-Serre. Bayer HealthCare has a production facility in Gaillard/Savoie. Bayer MaterialScience produces polyols at Fos-sur-Mer. The four French production facilities employ slightly more than 930 of the 3,590 people currently working for the company in France.

Bayer CropScience has two production plants, in Norwich and Widnes. They employ around 500 of the company's total U.K. workforce of 1,285.

In Italy, Bayer has five production centers that employ 700 of the 2,580 people working for the company in Italy. Garbagnate, near Milan, is one of the most important sites for the production of pharmaceuticals. Filago, where crop protection agents and plastics are produced, was the first chemical park in Italy to be certified to the E.U. Eco-Management and Audit Scheme EMAS II. Rosia near Siena has a center run by Bayer HealthCare for the packaging and distribution of blood products and Kogenate® Bayer, the first genetically engineered Bayer preparation for the treatment of hemophilia. Bayer MaterialScience has two production facilities in Mussolente and Nera Montoro.

Tarragona in Spain is Bayer's most important production site in southern Europe. It is here that the company operates a state-of-the-art MDI plant. The site at La Felguera in Asturia accounts for 80 percent of Bayer's global production of the active ingredient for Aspirin®, the "drug of the century". In Madrid there is a pharmaceutical production plant operated as a joint venture by Bayer Schering Pharma. Zona Franca in Barcelona is home to a worldwide competence center for raw materials used in the production of high-quality wood coating systems. There are five Bayer production sites in Spain employing 1,900 of the total of 2,890 people working for the company in this country.