Bayer Middle Africa Limited, a global company now operational in Nigeria, has made its first appearance at the 2016 Lagos International Trade Fair with a range of life science products cutting across healthcare, pharmaceuticals, crop protection, seeds and high-tech materials.
Bayer is a life science company with more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture.
According to the company, its participation in this year’s Lagos Trade Fair is a positive development for the Nigerian economy towards sustainable growth in a diversified economy.
“With our innovative products, Bayer is contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time,” said the company, in a statement.
The growing and increasingly aging world population requires improved medical care and an adequate supply of food. Bayer is improving people’s quality of life by preventing, alleviating and treating diseases, and is helping to provide a reliable supply of high-quality food, feed and plant-based raw materials.
In the eight days Trade Fair, Bayer will make her presence known, with representation of the Pharmaceutical, Consumer Health, Crop Science, and Covestro (formerly Material Science) products, and will be providing technical support and assistance at the Trade Fair ground.
In line with the country’s development priorities, and as the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has given special emphasis to agricultural support products, scientific innovation, scientific technologies breakthrough, medication, pharmaceutical and healthcare, Bayer’s presence at the Trade Fair falls in line with the objectives of the fair, and therefore stands out at this year’s Trade Fair.
The Pharmaceutical Division of Bayer focuses on prescription products, especially for cardiology and women’s healthcare, and on specialty therapeutics in the areas of oncology, haematology and ophthalmology. The division also comprises the Radiology Business Unit which markets contrast-enhanced diagnostic imaging equipment together with the necessary contrast agents.
