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past 25 years: Bayer Group and critical shareholders

Newsletter the Coalition against Bayer dangers
From: CBGnetwork info@cbgnetwork.org

Date: 24 February 2011 16:36
Subject: taz article on Critical shareholders / Coalition against Bayer Dangers in need

WDR, the Protestant Press and the New Germany reporting today on Critical Shareholders of Bayer, Daimler, Siemens and Co. The taz writes: "The incidents led to the creation of its legendary Coalition against Bayer-dangers." The full article can be found below.

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the daily newspaper, 24 February 2011

With shares against greenwashing

For 25 Years nerves critical shareholders boards of Bayer, BASF, Daimler. Now they start a campaign against companies that give the green than they are.

from spinners ridiculed critics have recognized Board. So it looks in any case the governing body of the Critical Shareholders on his 25th Birthday. The Group's critics celebrated on Wednesday in Bonn and at the same time launched its new campaign: "Stop Greenwashing" First

roots have beaten the Critical Shareholders in the mid-seventies. The chemical giant Bayer Wuppertal plant there were two serious accidents, a year later threatened in the Bayer plant in Dormagen a disaster as a highly toxic Gusathion was released. The incidents led to the creation of its legendary Coalition against Bayer Dangers (CBG).

Citizens Initiative - at that time was the concept of non-governmental organization not known - became the nucleus of the leftist movement of the Critical Shareholders: 1984 CBG members said the first time at a shareholders' meeting of Bayer. On 23 Then took place in February 1986, the inaugural meeting of the Federation in Solingen.

Today is the birthday child contact for more than two dozen member organizations and about 5,000 small shareholders, given to it by voting their shares. This includes the church-related foundation North-South bridges. You buy stocks such as Adidas and Puma and makes them available to the critical shareholders - so the "Clean Clothes Campaign" to support. "We expect this public and press our concerns," says North-South bridges manager Walter Hättig.

take a long time manager, the critics seriously. So they voted against the union as the sole shareholder takeover of the ailing U.S. carmaker Chrysler by Daimler - the merger ended with a billion dollar loss. At a general meeting of Bayer for the first time they managed to change with over a million votes on the agenda. In the past, about their claims for sustainability and transparency in corporate governance been dismissed as exotic. Today they are recognized in policy and science.

was launched in 1994, the umbrella organization of the campaign "More women in leadership positions," the dispute is currently in politics. "Excellent" refers to congratulate Rudolf Hickel shareholder critics. The Bremer economist says: "We know that in the sufficient groups, which are determined by managers and a financial aristocracy, not the regulatory bodies." The blanks are now partially filled Critical shareholders.

annoy For a quarter of a century, critics Marathon directors, supervisory boards and shareholders, many non-political BASF, Salzgitter and alliance of German Bank and Daimler. And although "successful", says CEO Markus Dufner. Sun'm Bayer worldwide in the focus of media publicity, the Federal Court had the freedom of the old critic Jurgen Grasslin against the Daimler Group and was accepted in Bulgaria to build a nuclear power plant was stopped.

With a "good mix of experienced people and many young people with fresh ideas," there in 2011 the "greenwashing" of the DAX companies go to the collar. "This means companies do miss her anti-social, environmentally unfriendly and unsustainable business turned green," blames Dufner. Energy giants, the "clean" electric cars fund drive with nuclear power, or "green" banks, the weapons will soon be pilloried. By Hermannus PFEIFFER

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