Morris Township Loses Bayer to Whippany

Morris Township has lost its bid to keep Bayer HealthCare from moving. The company has announced 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. Bayer did not say how many employees are currently at each site.

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.

Mayor H. Scott Rosenbush of Morris Township that, while the existing facility in Morris Township could not accommodate the consolidated workforce, he was hoping Bayer would choose a larger site in the Township. "It is my hope that the company would not leave Morris Township," Rosenbush said at the time.

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.