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Badische Anilin und Sodafabrik

BASF SE
Societas Europaea
Traded as BAS
DAX Component
Industry Chemicals
Founded 6 April 1865; 153 years ago (6 April 1865)
Headquarters Ludwigshafen, Germany
Key people
Jürgen Hambrecht (Chairman of the supervisory board), Kurt Bock (CEO and Chairman of the executive board)
Products Chemicals, plastics, performance chemicals, catalysts, coatings, crop technology, crude oil and natural gas exploration and production
Revenue Increase64.475 billion (2017)
Increase €8.328 billion (2017)
Increase €6.078 billion (2017)
Total assets Increase €78.768 billion (end 2017)
Total equity Increase €34.756 billion (end 2017)
Number of employees
Increase 115,490 (end 2017)
Website basf.com

Coordinates: 49°29′47″N 8°25′57″E / 49.49639°N 8.43250°E / 49.49639; 8.43250

BASF SE is a German chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas and Africa. Its headquarters is located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has customers in over 190 countries and supplies products to a wide variety of industries. Despite its size and global presence, BASF has received relatively little public attention since it abandoned manufacturing and selling BASF-branded consumer electronics products in the 1990s.

At the end of 2015, the company employed more than 122,000 people, with over 52,800 in Germany alone. In 2015, BASF posted sales of €70.4 billion and income from operations before special items of about €6.7 billion. The company is currently expanding its international activities with a particular focus on Asia. Between 1990 and 2005, the company invested €5.6 billion in Asia, for example in sites near Nanjing and Shanghai, China and Mangalore in India.


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