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Bayer Aspirin. Bayer Diabetes Care - Bayer in the United States - Home. One of the world's leading innovative enterprises in crop protection, seeds, biotechnology and non-agricultural pest control. - Bayer CropScience. Bayer HealthCare - Homepage. Homepage - Bayer. Bayer - Wiki. Bayer AG (/ˈbaɪər/; German pronunciation: [ˈbaɪ̯ɐ]) is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen (today a part of Wuppertal), Germany in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and well known for its original brand of aspirin. Bayer marketed heroin in 1895 and invented aspirin in 1897.

The company was 150 years old on 1 August 2013.[1] History[edit] Bayer AG was founded in Barmen (today a part of Wuppertal), Germany in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and his partner, Johann Friedrich Weskott. Bayer's first major product was acetylsalicylic acid (originally discovered by French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt in 1853), a modification of salicylic acid or salicin, a folk remedy found in the bark of the willow plant. In 1904, the Bayer company introduced the Bayer cross as its corporate logo. The Bayer company then became part of IG Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. Bayer Heroin bottle Bayer has discovered, among others: Logo[edit]