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shareholder | country | % | source |
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year | business source |
2009 | Bayer is the world's third largest fertilizer manufacturer. | Les Echos |
2007 | Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, BASF, Dow and DuPont together sell 85 percent of the annual pesticide bought in the world, a market valued 30 billion US dollars. | IPS |
2007 | Bayer is Germany's largest drugmaker. | Bloomberg |
2006 | Bayer is the world's fourteenth-largest pharmaceutical group. | Les Echos |
2004 | Second-largest chemical group in Europe. | Les Echos |
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country | address & contact : production type incentive source |
China | Caojing, Shanghai : Les Echos |
Mexico | DISTRITO FEDERAL MIGUEL HIDALGO BLVD. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA & 7283000 : Sistema de Informacion de la Industria Maquiladora |
Switzerland | Bayer (Schweiz) AG, Grubenstraße 6 8045 Zurich : |
Turkey | Bayer Türk Kimya San.Ltd.Sti, P.K. 688 80225 Sisli Istanbul : |
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year name | photo position; compensation source |
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year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
2009 | -30 | Internal restructuring: FranceLes Echos | |
2007 | | ILO violation 138 : Bayer's subcontractors for the cotton harvest in the States of Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, employ hundreds of thousands of teenagers of less than 18 years old and children of less than 14 years old.: India | Business Standard |
2007 | -950 | Merger/Acquisition: Bayer cuts about 20% of Shering's workforce in Berlin.: Germany | Les Echos |
2006 | -1500 | Internal restructuring: GermanyLes Echos | |
2006 | -6000 | Merger/Acquisition: Bayer plans to cut 10% of the combined workforce of Bayer and Schering.: Germany | AFP |
2005 | -124 | Internal restructuring: FranceFrance 3 | |
1999 | 120000 | | Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppo |
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year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
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year | country : consequences source |
2007 | Brazil : The marketing of the transgenic variety of corn Libertlink resistant to insects was approved by Brazil's national technical Commission of biosecurity. | AFP |
2007 | United States of America brand: Cropsciences : Cropsciences sells GM rice seeds. This transgenic rice is authorized by the department of agriculture despite having contaminated fields and shipments of non-GM rice. | |
2004 | brand: Baycol : Bayer aurait dissimulé les effets secondaires de son anticholestérol. Bayer a déjà versé 1,1 milliard de dollars à des familles de victimes dans le cadre de règlements à l'amiable. Plus de 6.000 procès sont encore en cours. | Les Echos |
2003 | Norway : Severe contamination with Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in the Oslo fjord: compensation 3,5 millions euros | Bayerwatch |
2002 | Peru : Poisoning of 42 children | PANUPS |
2001 | Brazil : Belford Roxo: contamination de la rivière Sarapui avec des PCB, métaux lourds, benzenamines halogénées, benzenes chlorés | Greenpeace |
2001 | brand: Baycol : "FDA has received reports of 31 U.S. deaths due to severe rhabdomyolysis (muscle weakness) associated with use of Baycol'', 52 décès recensés dans le monde. | Bayerwatch |
1999 | brand: Olaquindox : Cancérigène (cancer du sein et de la prostate) | Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppo |
  | : Pesticide PCB | Greensboro News Record |
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year | country : consequences source |
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year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | | | source |
2007 |
The European Commission has fined Bayer AG, Denka Group, EI Du Pont de Nemours & Co, Dow Chemical Co, ENI and Tosoh Corp a total of 243.2 mln eur for participating in a cartel for chloroprene rubber between 1993 and 2002. The companies involved shared the market and fixed prices for chloroprene rubber, which is used for rubber components in a range of industrial products such as latex for the production of diving equipment, condoms, and the inner soles of shoes and as an adhesive. |
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2005 |
Portugal’s Competition Authority has fined five drug companies a total of EUR 16 millions for operating a cartel. The companies, Johnson and Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Bayer, Menarini Diagnosticos, Roche Holding AG, fixed prices during 36 bidding processes to supply 22 hospitals from November 2001 to January 2003. |
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2005 |
Europe's competition authority has fined Bayer 58.9 million euros for running a rubber chemicals cartel in Europe. The Commission added that it had "firm and convincing evidence" of the existence of a cartel during the years 1996-2001, but had also seen indications of collusion dating back to the 1970s. |
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2005 |
Aux Etats-Unis, Wolfgang Koch, directeur de la branche caoutchouc de Bayer, a reconnu sa culpabilité dans une affaire d'entente sur les prix dans le secteur du caoutchouc de synthèse. Pendant trois ans, Bayer s'est mis d'accord avec son concurrent Crompton pour maintenir à un niveau élevé le prix du caoutchouc vendu aux fabricants de pneus et aux de chaussures. |
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2004 |
| 29,8 | 0,6 | |   | billion Eu€ | |
2004 |
Amende de 33 milions dollars pour pratiques anticoncurrentielles entre 1998 et 2002 |
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2004 |
Investigation price fixing in half a dozen chemicals used in plastics, rubber and synthetic materials in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. |
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2003 |
| 28,57 | -1,36 | |   | billion Eu€ | |
2003 |
Surfacturation: a changé le nom de ses médicaments pour les écouler plus cher à l'administration fédérale états-unienne: amende de 257 millions de $US. |
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2002 |
| 29,62 | 1,06 | |   | billion Eu€ | |
2002 |
Price-fixing of rubber chemicals. |
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2001 |
Cadeaux aux médecins français qui prescrivent du Staltor: week-ends dans des Relais et Châteaux, des soirées au Ritz et même un logiciel médical d'une valeur de 10 000 F |
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2001 |
| 25,79 | 0,86 | |   | billion US$ | |
2000 |
| 30,97 | 1,84 | |   | billion Eu€ | |
1999 |
| 27,32 | 2 | |   | billion Eu€ | |
1998 |
| 32,93 | 1,89 | |   | billion US$ | |
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year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | assets | buyback | source |
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year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
2000 | Limit the legal liability, no price control, no list of preferred drugs, hampers the approval and marketing of generic drugs, no drug imports, no limit to drug advertising… : Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America : : US government, congress, senate translate | Washington Post |
2000 | Prevent binding environmental regulations (environmental protection through economic growth, self-regulation and free trade) : WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) : : United Nations translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
2000 | lift the ban on bovine growth hormon : FEDESA : : European Commission translate | Fedesa |
2000 | Market access (through WTO), cheaper energy (through energy liberalization in Europe); uniform rules to enable the patenting of plants and animals (through TRIPS); prevent advert legislation on chemicals, self-regulation instead; : CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
2000 | Lift the ban on bovine growth hormons, the moratorium on GMOs : EFPIA (European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations) : : European Commission translate | EFPIA |
1999 | Market admission for genetically modified organisms : EuropaBio : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
1999 | Deregulation and "maximum liberalization" through WTO, GATS : TABD (Transatlantic Business Dialogue) : : US Government / European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
1999 | Access to public services (privatization through GATS) : ERT (European Roundtable of Industrialists) : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
1998 | Regulation favorable to company's interests : Contribution to Candidate's Political Action Committee : amount: 188 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
1996 | : Miles Inc : amount: 49 thousand US$ : Parti USA (Election) translate | Multinational Monitor |
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year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
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year | dubious practice : image source |
2007 | Disinformation: Bayer affirmed that it had reduced in a drastic way its CO2 emissions. However, it was proved that the multinational had done nothing but withdraw of its assessment the emissions emitted by subsidiary companies which it had sold.: | Novethic |
2004 | slogan: Sciences For A Better Life; | |
2004 | slogan: La science améliore la vie.; | |
2004 | slogan: Etudier la vie. Réaliser ses rêves.; | |
2001 | ad budget: 320 million US$; | Advertising Age |
2000 | ad budget: 354 million US$; | Advertising Age |
2000 | Arguable partnership: Global Compact with the United Nations: value: Respects human, social and environmental laws; | ONU |
1999 | slogan: Nous ne soignons plus aujourd'hui comme hier.; | |
1998 | ad budget: 434 million US$; | Advertising Age |
1998 | value: Compétence, responsabilité; slogan: Etre compétent, c'est aussi être responsable; | |
1998 | slogan: La via d'uscita.; | |
1997 | ad budget: 410 million US$; | Advertising Age |
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