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The report contains information on the strategies pursued & programs implemented by the compnany to achieve this goal

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Bayer Sustainable Development Report 2008 published:
Maintaining sustainable and successful business during the global economic crisis: The newly published Bayer Sustainable Development Report 2008 contains information on the strategies pursued and programs implemented by the Bayer Group to achieve this goal. View the report online under: www.sustainability2008.bayer.com/en/Sustainable-Development-Report-2008.pdfx

Bayer’s products and services help provide solutions to the major challenges of our time – global access to medicines, feeding the growing world population, conserving water resources and limiting the progression of climate change. Bayer is in particular backing its innovative capabilities and has once again increased its research and development expenditures to EUR 2.9 billion in 2009.

Bayer’s Sustainable Development Report 2008 contains:
Detailed information on the company’s sustainability management
Key topic chapters with focus on: medicine, climate and water
A comprehensive performance report which covers the areas: economics, employees, human rights, corporate social responsibility, ecology and product stewardship
Detailed quantitative and qualitative objectives and their implementation status.

The report is based on the GRI guidelines, the internationally recognized standard for sustainable development reporting, and was classified by the GRI as “A+ / GRI checked”. Key topic chapters and performance report are certified by corporate auditors Ernst & Young.

An online version of the report can be found at www.sustainability.bayer.com Hard copies may be ordered in English and German. Please send your request to serviceline@bayer-ag.de

Bayer welcomes your feedback on this report via their CorporateRegister.com profile here or by answering the Bayer stakeholder survey: www.survey.sustainability.bayer.com

The Bayer Group is one of the world’s leading companies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials: with 108.600 employees’ worldwide and annual sales of 32.918 million Euros (2008).
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