Corporate profile
Bayer Schering Pharma is one of the ten largest specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world and the company's goal is a leading market position in each of its specialist fields. With its distinctive expertise in research, the company develops new medicines and therapies which make an essential contribution toward improving patient's quality of life.
Our outstanding research activities, together with our highly motivated staff, secure the sustainable success and growth of our company. We focus on four business areas, in which we make essential contributions to medical progress:
- Diagnostic Imaging
- General Medicine
- Specialty Medicine
- Women’s Healthcare
Facts and Figures
| Established: | In 2006 Bayer AG acquired Schering AG, Germany, to combine its pharmaceutical business with Schering AG's business. |
| Headquarter: | Berlin |
| Headcount: | Approx. 37,000 members of staff worldwide (Full time equivalents as of December 31, 2007.) |
| Sales in 2007: | EUR 10.267 billion |
| Main research locations: | Berlin and Wuppertal in Germany; Berkeley, USA. |
| Production locations: | Europe, United States, Latin America and Asia. |
| Subsidiaries: | The company has subsidiaries in over 100 countries worldwide. |
