I suspect Bayer will be surprised to read in George Pitcher’s piece, “True cost of drug dependency” (MW August 25), that it is the German company that has purchased “Marion Merrell Dow in the US for 4.4bn”.
Actually, the purchaser is Germany’s largest chemical and pharmaceutical group – our own parent company Hoechst AG.
Tony Eaton
General manager, corporate & public affairs
Hoechst Roussel
Denham
Bucks
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