Bayer mergers

Note Bayer CropScience, in early 2002, will reflect the merger Aventis CropScience (formerly Rlione-Poulenc Agio France) into the Bayer Agricultural Group. 

DyStar, formed by the merger of Hoechst and Bayer (1995), acquisition of BASF textile colors which include the former Zeneca, and Mitsubishi of Japan, Germany... 

Chemical companies have taken a number of different routes. Hiils and Hoechst, for example, before their respective mergers with Degussa and Rhone-Poulenc, integrated a great many corporate service functions into their divisions and spun off all infrastructure functions into a separate site management company ( industrial park ). Monsanto has moved its central services into a central business division called Monsanto Business Systems, while Bayer favors a strong corporate center with five corporate divisions and seven central service divisions. 

Chemical companies went through a turbulent period in the last twenty years mergers, buy-outs, restructuring of the product portfolio etc. changed the cooperation relationships. These events rendered cooperations with the IMPROVE project more difficult. Nevertheless, there was a stable core of partners for discussion which consisted of Bayer, BASF, and Degussa. 

For rationalization, the operating communities, and the laboratories, see ibid., pp. 568-573. The quotation is from p. 568 (Duisberg s italics), from the text of the merger agreement of Oct. 2, 1925, in the Bayer archives. 

Bayer have published recently - mainly after the successful merger with Aventis - a multitude of patents [61], in which they have basically explored in more detail the effect of several novel meta-substituents on the biological activity of triketones, especially those with substituted 3-alkoxyalky-2-chloro-4-alkylsulfonyl substituents in the aromatic ring. From this work, the post-emergence corn herbicide... 

Heinrich Caro to BASF management, 15 December 1887. Management correspondence, BASF-Heinrich Caro, 1878-1908, reference CIO, BASF Archives. Fox. op. cit. (13), p. 20, states that Levinstein arranged for manufacture of roccelline in Holland, but this was probably after the 1890 merger with AGFA and Bayer. 

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