BASF | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/10/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:43 1 History
00:02:47 1.1 Dyes
00:03:57 1.2 Soda
00:04:19 1.3 Sulfuric acid
00:04:52 1.4 Ammonia
00:05:27 1.5 IG Farben
00:06:19 1.6 World War II
00:08:14 1.7 BASF refounded
00:09:01 1.8 Production abroad
00:09:49 1.9 Takeovers
00:14:06 2 Finances
00:14:41 3 Business segments
00:15:04 3.1 Chemicals
00:15:32 3.2 Plastics
00:17:30 3.3 Performance products
00:18:04 3.4 Functional Solutions
00:18:28 3.5 Agricultural
00:18:55 3.6 Biotechnology
00:19:53 3.7 Oil and gas
00:20:14 4 Investors
00:20:37 5 Production
00:22:59 6 Environmental record
00:24:50 7 See also



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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 2017, the company employed around 115,490 people, with over 52,000 in Germany. 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, India.
BASF is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, and Zurich Stock Exchange. The company delisted its ADR from the New York Stock Exchange in September 2007. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.