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Friedrich Bayer · 1863

Bayer was a dyestuffs partnership founded in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and Johann Friedrich Weskott. It expanded through synthetic dye innovation, relocated due to arsenic contamination, built brand equity via Aspirin and the Bayer Cross, then merged into IG Farben in 1925 — whose assets were seized post-WWII for Nazi atrocities.