Roche yesterday opened a new food premix facility outside São
Paulo, Brazil, to manufacture its Nutrix blends for use in
fortified foods and supplements made in South America.
Roche has completed its previously announced exit from the vitamins
business, signing a contract yesterday with Dutch speciality
chemicals group DSM, the new owner of its vitamins and carotenoids
unit. Roche added that it has also...
After months of speculation, Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche
said it has agreed the sale of its leading vitamins unit to Dutch
chemicals company DSM for €2.25 billion.
Pharmaceuticals giant Roche this week reported a 28 per cent fall
in net profits for the first half of the year. The Swiss company
saw net profit fall from SF2.5billion to SF1.8billion, partly due
to a 39 per cent drop in operating...
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has said that several potential
bidders have come forward for its vitamins and fine chemicals
business which the company is looking to sell later this year.
First quarter sales at pharmaceutical giant Roche were up 5 per
cent in Swiss franc terms to SFr7.4 billion (€5m), with good
performances from the group's other divisions more than offsetting
a decline at the vitamins arm.