Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Pharmaceutical industry |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
Number of employees | ca. 40,000 |
| Parent | Bayer |
| Website | pharma.bayer.com |
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals is a multinational research-centered pharmaceutical company headquartered in Wedding, Berlin and with over 40,000 employees and around 100 subsidiaries worldwide. It is a division of the Bayer subsidiary Bayer HealthCare, which has over 60,000 employees worldwide and which sold pharmaceutical products for around 20 billion euro as of 2014.[1] Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals' main research and development locations are Berlin, Wuppertal, Mission Bay, San Francisco, Berkeley, California, Turku and Oslo. The company has the largest German pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, located in Bergkamen.
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals was formed by the 2006 merger of Bayer and Schering AG. It was named Bayer Schering Pharma until it was renamed Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals in 2011.
Main products
- Xarelto
- Kogenate
- Betaferon/Betaseron
- Mirena
- Nexavar
- YAZ/Yasmin/Yasminelle
- Adalat
- Aspirin Cardio
- Glucobay
- Avalox/Avelox