Bayer AG
A German life-science company making medicines, consumer health products, and crop protection. Its best-known product is Aspirin, the painkiller developed by its chemist in 1897, and its consumer brands also include Claritin and Aleve. Founded in 1863 in Barmen as a dye works by Friedrich Bayer and Johann Friedrich Weskott, the firm still carries its founder's name today and also sells seeds and crop-protection products to farmers through its Crop Science division. Aspirin's name is said to blend "acetyl" with Spiraea, the plant from which salicylic acid was first isolated.
Sponsored ADR representing Bayer AG common stock