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Total E-Quality: Bayer equal opportunity compliance specialist Dagmar Diergarten holds the certificate with Wolfgang Schenk, also of Human Resources.

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Total E-Quality: Bayer equal opportunity compliance specialist Dagmar Diergarten holds the certificate with Wolfgang Schenk, also of Human Resources.

Bayer became the first company with global headquarters outside the U.S., and also the first chemical company, to receive the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership. This is the only U.S. presidential award honoring companies for their activities in the social sector. Bayer received this distinction for its “Making Science Make Sense” program, an initiative launched ten years ago that advances science literacy among school students.

In China, Bayer was recognized as one of the top employers for 2007 in the Shanghai region. Bayer and 37 other local and multinational companies were honored by the Corporate Research Foundation for their best-in-class practices in the human resources field, including unique talent attraction and retention programs.

The company’s high reputation around the world was also reflected in the outcomes of several opinion surveys. In Indonesia, Bayer is among the most admired companies according to a survey by the magazine BusinessWeek. In Brazil, Bayer CropScience Ltda. was listed as the best crop protection enterprise in Brazil in Exame magazine’s “Agribusiness Yearbook.” In Canada, Bayer CropScience was ranked among the 100 best employers for the third year in succession. In the United States, Bayer Corporation was recognized as one of the 100 best companies in the nation for working mothers. And a survey in Germany commissioned by the business magazine WirtschaftsWoche showed that the country’s managers consider Bayer the most fascinating health care and chemicals company.

Other honors were accorded to Bayer for its vocational training activities. German Vice Chancellor Franz Müntefering awarded Bayer the prize entitled “Shaping Employment – Companies Demonstrate Responsibility” in the category “Perspectives for Young People” in recognition of the company’s special program that prepares socially and educationally disadvantaged young people for vocational training courses.

German school students consider Bayer to be one of the country’s best employers, according to the “Student Barometer” survey, carried out by the Berlin research institute “trendence” for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, in which Bayer received by far the best ranking among chemicals and health care companies.

Also in Germany, Bayer trainee Oliver Polch achieved one of the highest scores in the 2006 final examinations of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for plant electronics technicians. As a result he was among those honored at a ceremony in Berlin in the presence of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In 2006 Bayer AG received the “Total E-Quality” award for the fourth time in recognition of its commitment to equality of opportunity in the workplace. Announcing the honor, the jury of Total E-Quality Deutschland said that over a period of more than ten years Bayer’s joint committee on equal opportunity had initiated numerous activities in this area, including promoting equal access to employment and participating in personnel development measures.