DSM Acquires Roche Vitamins

DSM Acquires Roche Vitamins
Delft, The Netherlands-based DSM has acquired Roche’s Vitamins and Fine Chemicals Division, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland, for e2.25 billion. This is DSM’s largest acquisition in the company’s 100-year history, making it the largest player in the global life sciences products sector. In terms of the vitamin price fixing case, present and future liabilities will remain with Roche.
(For more details on the acquisition see Word From Wall Street, page 26.)