Bayer HealthCare Diabetes Care Division is sweet on its customers. Part of Bayer HealthCare's massive worldwide operations, the division makes and markets blood glucose monitoring systems, self-care software, hemoglobin meters, and lancing devices to consumers through pharmacies, retail stores, hospitals, and wholesalers. Bayer Diabetes Care manufactures a line of blood testing systems (including the Breeze 2 and Contour monitors), which it sells in over 100 countries. German conglomerate Bayer has produced diagnostic products for diabetes since 1941 and developed the first portable blood glucose meter and test strips in 1969.