CEO Werner Wenning at the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting of Bayer AG:
“We plan to grow again”
2009 operationally a strong year in a difficult environment / Bayer stock performance in 2009: plus 40 percent / Proposal to pay an unchanged dividend of EUR 1.40 per share for 2009 / Strong gains in sales and earnings in the first quarter of 2010 / Personnel changes on the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board