Bayer expands Ruder Finn contract

Shanghai - PR group Ruder Finn has landed another slice of the Bayer Group, winning the pitch to build the corporate and business-to-business communications strategy for its MaterialScience  division in China.

The agency said it will provide strategic planning and counseling, media programs and events management throughout the China region.

Sustainable development and social responsibility will form part of the agency's brief.

BMS is the Bayer Group's largest subgroup in Greater China and is also one of the world's biggest polymer companies which develops solutions for products used in many areas of daily life as well as construction materials used in some of the Beijing Olympic facilities.

In January 2008, Ruder Finn had also signed a retainer with Bayer China Limited, Bayer's holding company in China.