Bayer AG - Stockholders' Newsletter First Quarter 2007

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Hermes Award for ProteXXion® identification technology

The Euro 100,000 Hermes Award was presented at the Hannover Fair in the presence of German Research Minister Dr. Annette Schavan.

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The Euro 100,000 Hermes Award was presented at the Hannover Fair in the presence of German Research Minister Dr. Annette Schavan.

Leverkusen. ProteXXion®, the innovative identification technology for the forgery-proof authentication of objects and packaging, has won the prestigious Hermes Award, the international technology prize presented by the Hannover Fair. Accepting the €100,000 award from Dr. Annette Schavan, German Research Minister and patron of the Hermes Award, were Bayer Technology Services (BTS) Managing Director Achim Noack (photo, third from left) and Mounir Barakat (right), Chief Executive Officer of British-based Ingenia Technology.

Also present were German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Lower Saxony State Premier Christian Wulff (left), who is co-patron of the Hermes Award.

ProteXXion® uses laser light to unambiguously identify each item on the basis of its unique surface structure without the need for additional marking or tagging. bts developed ProteXXion® for industrial applications on the basis of Laser Surface Authentication technology invented by Ingenia Technology.