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Bayer AG Overview
My current employer is Bayer Business Services. This is an operating service subgroup under holding company Bayer AG. Bayer AG looks after all Bayer’s separate operational and strategic managements. The group’s core businesses have been transformed into limited companies and are each controlled by Bayer AG. These companies are Bayer HealthCare, Bayer CropScience, and Bayer MaterialScience and three service companies which are Bayer Technology Services, Bayer Business Services and Currenta. The company now has operations in over 55 countries across the world (Blake, 2013). Bayer AG holds a key position in four market sectors: healthcare (pharmaceuticals), agriculture (seeds and agro-chemicals), polymers (plastics, synthetic rubber, coatings) and chemicals (chemical raw materials and specialized chemicals) ("Bayer AG : Overview", n.d.).
As of December 31, 2013, Bayer AG had 113,200 employees worldwide. There were
53,600 employees in Europe, 15,200 in North America, 28,000 in Asia/Pacific, and 16,400 in
Latin America/Middle East/Africa ("Profile and Organization", 2013).
My specific role within Bayer Business Services is an IT Analyst for the eBusiness Solutions team. My team and I take care of hosting all internal and external websites for Bayer AG’s companies. We currently host over 1,000 websites. Some of these sites include aleve.com, petparents.com, and oneaday.com. We also manage over 200 Information Technology applications for Bayer AG’s companies.
Global Environment Observations
With Bayer AG being such a vast global organization, it both affects and is affected by the global environment. Bayer CropScience is a great example of this. Recently, BayerCropscience has been extremely involved in the global...

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...an increasing demand for high-quality products ("Bayer Expands Production for Coating Raw Materials in China", 2014). According to Daniel Meyer, who heads the Coatings, Adhesives, Specialties Business Unit at Bayer MaterialScience, "The construction of our new HDI plant documents our confidence in the Asia/Pacific market and China, in particular. We are determined to continue to grow here in harmony with the rising demand in the region for innovative solutions for polyurethane-based coatings and adhesives." The expansion of production capacity at the site in Shanghai will ensure that Bayer MaterialScience will be able to supply the global and regional market with HDI. The new plant will utilize gas-phase technology, which requires substantially less energy and solvent than conventional processes ("Bayer Expands Production for Coating Raw Materials in China", 2014).

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