Ratings, Rankings and Awards

The Access to Medicine Index rates the contribution the 20 biggest pharmaceutical companies make to improving access to medical care in developing countries. In this index that is published every two years, Bayer achieved 12^th place. Bayer contributes to the achievement of sustainability goals with its long-standing commitment in the field of family planning, its collaboration with the WHO on Chagas disease and African sleeping sickness and its development activities with respect to Chagas and river blindness.

About the Rating
The „Access to Medicine Foundation“ (ATM) was set up in the Netherlands in 2005 with the goal of improving access to sustainable health care, particularly in developing countries. This global initiative is supported not only by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation but also by the Dutch foreign ministry, the UK AID and more than 50 institutional investors.

The Access to Seeds Index ranks globally leading seed companies actions and their efforts for enhancing the productivity of smallholder farmers.

Bayer is ranked 3rd in Field Crop Seed and Vegetable Seeds respectively in the first publication of the ‘Access to Seeds Index’.

In the Access to Seeds Index, Bayer is recognized for its commitment to global food security, smallholder farmer development and the assigned responsibilities for senior executives.

Bayer is also recognized for its multi-stakeholder initiatives such as Food Chain Partnerships and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the Much More Rice programs in Vietnam, India and Ghana, and important contributions to local gene banks.

About the Rating
Access to Seeds Foundation is an independent organization supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.
The goal of the Access to Seeds Index is to create transparency around the activities of seed companies and to identify leadership and best practices in the industry. The insights generated by the Index enable a dialogue with the industry on where it can step up its efforts to improve its performance over time towards enhancing the productivity of smallholder farmers.

The renowned rating organization CDP has rated Bayer once again as one of the leading international companies in terms of the sustainability of its climate and water strategies in its current ranking that was published in the beginning of 2019. In its comparative study of around 2,400 companies across the globe, CDP focused on their strategic approach to the challenges of climate change and the most valuable natural resource: water.

Bayer was awarded leadership status and received the highest possible rating of “A” for both climate protection and sustainable water management. The company thus confirmed its top ratings from the preceding years in both categories. CDP gathers and evaluates the world’s most comprehensive publicly accessible collection of company data on these two highly relevant sustainability areas.

About CDP
The non-profit organization CDP reports that each year it evaluates the climate- and water-related data of companies on behalf of over 650 institutional investors representing substantial fund assets of some US$87 trillion. According to CDP, the investors use this information to help reach their investment decisions.

2017 brought renewed confirmation of Bayer's inclusion in the FTSE4Good Index. To be included in these index, companies must fulfill strict ecological and social criteria relating to issues such as environmental management and climate protection, employees' rights, tackling corruption, sustainability in the supply chain and sustainability reporting. In the FTSE ESG rating Bayer was the first German company in the chemical sector to be included in the top six.

About the Rating
Bayer has been included in the FTSE4Good index series ever since it was launched by the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange (FTSE) in 2001. The FTSE4Good index series is a highly regarded international sustainability index.

For the third time, the international rating agency for sustainability evaluations EcoVadis extensively assessed Bayer and once again awarded it the Gold level for its company-wide sustainability management. This places Bayer among the top 5% of the companies assessed.

EcoVadis analyzes companies’ sustainability performance in four categories – Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Fair Business Practices & Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. With a score of 75/100, Bayer achieved an excellent result.

About the Rating
EcoVadis has been operating an independent collaborative platform that prepares CSR ratings of suppliers for global supply chains since 2007. EcoVadis has set itself the goal of promoting companies’ environmental and social practices through CSR performance monitoring within the supply chain and supporting them in improving their sustainability.

Bayer was awarded second place in the latest Good Company Ranking of the DAX 30 companies. According to the organizer, Kirchhoff Consult AG, this is the biggest sustainability ranking in Germany. The assessment focused on companies’ performance in the areas of society, employees, the environment and financial integrity. Bayer was rated particularly highly in the area of society, among other reasons because of its systematic dialogue with its various stakeholders and the integration of the results of this dialogue into the company's decision-making processes. In the environment category, Bayer's activities for maintaining sustainability standards in the supply chain were assessed particularly positively.

About the Ranking
The Good Company Ranking 2016 is based on data for the 2015 fiscal year. The assessment was performed by a scientific committee under the direction of Professor Edeltraud Günther from TU Dresden University.

Bayer is one of the top-scoring companies in the pharmaceutical industry and has received the Silver Class distinction for its particular sustainability performance from RobecoSAM in 2018. Companies whose score is within a range of 1 percent to 5 percent from the score of the Industry Leader receive the RobecoSAM Bronze Class distinction.

About the Ranking
Since 1999, RobecoSAM has been assessing and documenting the sustainability performance of about 2,500 corporations on a yearly basis. In the process, RobecoSAM has compiled one of the largest global databases on corporate sustainability.

For the fifth time in a row, Bayer was included in 2014 in Science Magazine's Global Top 20 Employers for Scientists. Bayer thus improved its ranking by 4 places compared to the previous year, moving up to 16th.

About the Ranking
The ranking is based on a survey of around 5,400 scientists from the areas of biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, medicine and other related areas.

Bayer is ranked as an Ideal Employer - Science students regard Bayer as one of the most attractive employer in natural sciences in Germany, Spain, Mexico and Vietnam.

About the Award
Universum produces its prestigious "ideal employer" ranking annually on behalf of German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. The consulting company is a market leader in employer branding and has more than 25 years’ experience in this field.

A powerful brand: Bayer has again taken the 3^rd spot in the international CoreBrand Index 2017 of the best and strongest company brands, just behind Coca Cola and Hershey and ahead of Walt Disney and Apple. That was the outcome of an analysis carried out by the Tenet Partners company.

About the Index
Every year Tenet Partners analyzes the market recognition of listed companies in putting together its CoreBrand Index (CBI). The best and most powerful brands, enjoying both high awareness as well as positive brand perception, are summarized in their “Top 100 Most Powerful Brands of 2016” report.

In the "World’s Most Admired Companies" ranking by U.S. magazine Fortune, Bayer comes third out of all chemical companies worldwide in terms of its image. The Group enjoys a good reputation in the industry, in particular in the areas of innovation, social responsibility, financial standing, product quality and global competitiveness.

About the List
The “Most Admired” list is the definitive report card on corporate reputations. The ranking is based on a survey of 4,100 executives, directors and analysts representing a total of 668 companies from 29 countries. Fortune’s survey partner Hay Group started with approximately 1,400 companies: the Fortune 1,000, i.e. the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue; non-U.S. companies in Fortune’s Global 500 database with revenues of $10 billion or more. Hay then selected the 15 largest for each international industry and the 10 largest for each U.S. industry. To create the 55 industry lists, Hay asked executives, directors and analysts to rate companies in their own industry on nine criteria, from investment value to social responsibility. A company’s score must rank in the top half of its industry survey to be listed.