Bayer CropScience Boosts Commercial Operations Organization

August 11, 2014

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (August 12, 2014) – In support of Bayer CropScience’s continued growth and to strengthen its support of the Western horticultural market, the company has announced significant investments in its Commercial Operations organization. Effective Sept. 1, a new Western Region, headquartered at Bayer CropScience’s Fresno, California, field technology station, will be added bringing the company’s total sales regions to three. This change coincides with the addition of five new operational districts across the country, increasing the company’s total number of districts from 19 to 24.

“Our new Western Region further demonstrates our commitment to cultivating horticulture solutions for our growers. We are doing this by increasing touch points with customers as we deliver advanced research and solutions to support their success,” said Inci Dannenberg, vice president of Commercial Operations for Bayer CropScience LP. “This change, along with the addition of new districts, allows us to enhance our Commercial Operations organization in a way that not only helps us continue to grow as a company, but more importantly allows us a way to strengthen our relationship with customers to help them reach their goals.”

Bayer CropScience will also bolster company resources through the addition of 45 new sales and field support personnel nationwide. These employees represent a strategic effort to strengthen relationships with customers and to support the company’s plan to deliver innovative solutions for agriculture in the fields of chemistry, seeds, biologics and services. In addition, new district managers overseeing company sales representatives will be added to ensure an equal focus on developing and growing people.

“We’re looking forward to adding new talent to the Bayer team,” said Dannenberg. “These bright agricultural minds will provide the support necessary to achieve sustainable success now and in the future.”

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About Bayer CropScience
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agriculture and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, the subgroup of Bayer AG responsible for the agricultural business, has annual sales of EUR 8,819 million (2013) and is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of seeds, crop protection and non-agricultural pest control. The company offers an outstanding range of products including high value seeds, innovative crop protection solutions based on chemical and biological modes of action as well as an extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture. In the area of non-agricultural applications, Bayer CropScience has a broad portfolio of products and services to control pests from home and garden to forestry applications. The company has a global workforce of 22,400 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at: www.press.bayercropscience.com.

Contact:
Bayer CropScience Media Hotline, 1-877-879-6162, or

Beth Roden
Head of Communications & Bayer CropScience NA Coordinator
Bayer CropScience
Tel: (919) 549-2030
Email: beth.roden@bayer.com

Jennifer Fair
MMI Public Relations
Tel: (919) 233-6600
Email: jennifer@mmipublicrelations.com

Find more information at www.bayercropscience.us.


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