BASF plans to transform into a European company

05/03/2007
 
At the company’s annual meeting on April 26, the board of executive directors and supervisory board of Germany-based BASF Aktiengesellschaft will propose changing BASF into a European company (Societas Europaea, SE) with the name BASF SE. The company’s headquarters and chief administrative offices will remain in Ludwigshafen
.

Commenting on the proposal chairman of the board, Dr Jürgen Hambrecht,
said, “The European Company is a modern legal form for a global company whose home market is in Europe,” adding, “BASF considers this legal form to be an affirmation of an entrepreneurial vision of Europe.”

In 2006, BASF posted approximately 60% of its sales in Europe and employed around two-thirds of its global workforce of more than 95,000 employees in the region.