With around 16,000 employees at more than 65 locations in the United States and Puerto Rico, the U.S. organization is the largest within the Bayer Group. Under the umbrella of
Bayer Corporation, the U.S. holding company, Bayer markets the entire spectrum of its portfolio from the east to the west coast.
Two Bayer HealthCare divisions have their global headquarters in the United States: Consumer Care in Morristown, New Jersey, and Diabetes Care in Tarrytown, New York and MEDRAD in Warrendale, Pennsylvania.
To ensure further growth, the Bayer Group has more than 2,800 employees involved in Research & Development in
North America. In addition, the company spent EUR 459 million on R&D in the region in 2008.
The North American research centers for crop protection and pharmaceuticals are integral elements in Bayer’s global research network spanning Europe, the United States and Japan.
Berkeley, California, is an important global R&D center for protein-based biologics drug discovery and home of the state-of-the-art Kogenate™ biological manufacturing facility.
Bayer researchers in Stilwell, Kansas, work on innovative crop protection products to safeguard harvests against pests.
Baytown, Texas, and New Martinsville, West Virginia, are home to large polymer production sites for Bayer MaterialScience.