The Bayer Group focuses on the rapidly growing, innovation-driven health care, nutrition and high-tech materials businesses in line with its mission statement “Bayer: Science For A Better Life.” Our strategic alignment toward these attractive markets and our concentration on core competencies enable us to invest in growth areas and innovative technologies. We aim to continue playing leadership roles and to steadily expand our already strong market positions. We will also continue our efforts to contain costs and improve efficiency in order to further increase the company’s value. We are pursuing a long-term growth strategy, mindful of the need to manage the business sustainably.
To facilitate investment in further growth, annual cost savings of €800 million are planned by 2013. About half of this amount is to be reinvested. By the end of 2012 the company is likely to take one-time charges in the region of €1 billion, part of this amount having already been incurred in the fourth quarter of 2010. In connection with this program, it is planned to reduce the global headcount of 111,400 by an aggregate of about 2,000 by the end of 2012. Approximately 4,500 positions – including roughly 1,700 in Germany – are to be cut, while some 2,500 new jobs will be created over the same period, particularly in the emerging markets.
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