Bayer USA
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Bayer Corporation is the Pittsburgh
-based American arm of Bayer
. Its headquarters are located in Robinson, a western suburb of the city. In addition to these main offices, it has 30 additional corporate centers in 17 states from California to Georgia to Massachusetts.
Bayer returned to the United States in 1978 with the purchases of Miles Laboratories
and Cutter Laboratories
, which returned some of the company's most famous products (Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day, etc.) to their corporate umbrella.
In 1994, Bayer finally reacquired full rights to all former Bayer products after they purchased the Winthrop division of over-the-counter
drugs from GlaxoSmithKline.
, Phillip's Laxatives, Bactine
, One-A-Day, Flintstone Vitamins, and Midol
. The company also markets prescription medications, animal medications, and diagnostic and medical testing equipment. Aside from the medical arm of the company, Bayer also creates many different chemicals and agricultural products.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
-based American arm of Bayer
Bayer
Bayer AG is a chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen , Germany in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and well known for its original brand of aspirin.-History:...
. Its headquarters are located in Robinson, a western suburb of the city. In addition to these main offices, it has 30 additional corporate centers in 17 states from California to Georgia to Massachusetts.
History
Bayer began marketing in America soon after the company's inception in Germany. In the late 1800s, they began to sell their trademark medication, aspirin. While the name aspirin became synonymous with Bayer for over a quarter of a century, the company lost the naming right during World War I, due to the company's German origin.Bayer returned to the United States in 1978 with the purchases of Miles Laboratories
Miles Laboratories
Miles Laboratories was founded as the Dr. Miles Medical Company in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1884 by Franklin Miles, a specialist in the treatment of eye and ear disorders, with an interest in the connection of the nervous system to overall health...
and Cutter Laboratories
Cutter Laboratories
Cutter Laboratories was a pharmaceutical company located in Berkeley, California. They were bought by the Bayer pharmaceutical company in the 1970s.-The Cutter incident:...
, which returned some of the company's most famous products (Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day, etc.) to their corporate umbrella.
In 1994, Bayer finally reacquired full rights to all former Bayer products after they purchased the Winthrop division of over-the-counter
Over-the-counter drug
Over-the-counter drugs are medicines that may be sold directly to a consumer without a prescription from a healthcare professional, as compared to prescription drugs, which may be sold only to consumers possessing a valid prescription...
drugs from GlaxoSmithKline.
Former plant
Bayer bought the former Ruco Polymer site in Hicksville, Nework, and utilized rail freight service by the New York & Atlantic Railway, which took over the LIRR's freight business in May, 1997. Bayer subsequently shut down the plant and razed all structures on the property. The rail freight spur by which the LIRR and then the New York & Atlantic served the site is still in existence, a few feet east of the New South Road rail/road crossing. It has been quite a long time since the spur has hosted a train. The NYA has kept the spur in existence in order to ship out contaminated soil in sealed gondolas and containers, if and when a remediation plan is settled on by the NYS and US governments.Products
Famous Bayer over-the-counter products include Aleve, Bayer Aspirin, Alka-SeltzerAlka-Seltzer
Alka-Seltzer is an effervescent antacid and pain reliever first marketed by the Dr. Miles Medicine Company. It was developed by Treneer in Elkhart Indiana. Alka-Seltzer is marketed for relief of minor aches, pains, inflammation, fever, headache, heartburn, sour stomach, indigestion, and hangovers,...
, Phillip's Laxatives, Bactine
Bactine
Bactine is the trademarked name of a range of topical first-aid treatments produced by Bayer. It includes a first aid liquid with active ingredients Benzalkonium chloride, an antiseptic, and lidocaine, a local anaesthetic. Bactine Liquid is a topical anesthetic , which means that it is used to numb...
, One-A-Day, Flintstone Vitamins, and Midol
Midol
Midol is a brand of an over-the-counter drug for menstrual cramping and other effects related to premenstrual syndrome and menstruation. Midol is distributed by Bayer....
. The company also markets prescription medications, animal medications, and diagnostic and medical testing equipment. Aside from the medical arm of the company, Bayer also creates many different chemicals and agricultural products.
Bayer USA subsidiaries
- Bayer Crop Science LLC
- Bayer Healthcare LLC
- Bayer MaterialScience LLC
- Bayer Business and Technology Services LLC