Bayer to Consolidate in Whippany
The pharmaceutical company plans to relocate 2,500 employees over the next two years from offices in Montville, Morris Township and other towns to the former Alcatel-Lucent site in Whippany.
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Bayer HealthCare plans to renovate several buildings on 95 acres in Whippany over the next two years and relocate 2,500 employees from Bayer offices in Morris Township, Montville, Wayne and Tarrytown, N.Y., to the new site, the company said.
The pharmaceutical company’s planned move is designed to consolidate Bayer HealthCare's East Coast business onto the former site of Alcatel-Lucent, previously Bell Labs.
Hanover officials touted it as good news, but officials in Montville and Morris Township have fretted the loss of jobs and traffic after hearing the company was planning to consolidate
Bayer did not say how many employees are at each site.
The company has said it is "very excited about the prospect of having a new site and facility that can house East Coast-based Bayer HealthCare employees from every division and function under one roof."
Bayer HealthCare, a subgroup of Bayer AG, is a leading company in the healthcare and medical products industry. The Bayer Consumer Care division, currently located in Morris Township, makes some of the most popular over-the-counter medications in the world, including Bayer Aspirin, Aleve, Alka-Seltzer, Midol and Flintstones vitamins.
MikeL
9:54 am on Friday, October 21, 2011
Maybe the high school can play their sports there once the building vacates.
Maxim Sapozhnikov
7:13 pm on Friday, October 21, 2011
Bayer still owns the plot in Montville, so it's unlikely.