Roche sells Vitamins and Fine Chemicals Division to DSM
The Roche division is the world’s leading supplier of vitamins and carotenoids with annual sales in 2001 of CHF 3.5 billion (EUR 2.4 billion). The division, which will become a unit of DSM, is a global business, headquartered in Kaiseraugst (Switzerland). It employs 7.500 people.
The total consideration of the transaction is EUR 2.25 billion. The present and future liabilities from the vitamin price fixing case will remain with Roche. After signing of the contract and before closing the transaction needs to be approved by antitrust authorities.
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