Nutrition Businesses in Several Global Chemical Companies

In a previous blog, I showed the reporting segment names used by 38 global chemical companies.  (Click here to see that blog.)   Three of the 38 companies have nutrition in one of their reporting segments names (BASF, DSM, and Evonik).   

In this blog, I provide brief descriptions in the table below on those three companies’ (BASF, DSM, and Evonik) nutrition businesses.  I also reviewed the annual reports of the other 35 companies as to what nutrition businesses they have, even though they have no nutrition reporting business segments.  The other companies that indicate nutrition businesses are also presented in the table, along with brief descriptions of their nutrition businesses based on my review of the companies’ annual reports.  Altogether, 6 of the 38 companies indicate nutrition businesses, and 32 of the 38 companies report no nutrition businesses and are not listed in the table below. 

 

company	nutrition businesses
arkema	produces methyl mercaptan used in animal feed dietary supplements
basf	additives for food and feed, such as vitamins, carotenoids, sterols, enzymes, omega-3-fatty acids, and human oligosaccharides
dsm	nutritional ingredients for humans and animals, such as vitamins, nutritional lipids, minerals, eubiotics, enzymes, yeasts, and human milk oligosaccharides	precision and personalization solutions for optimal nutrition	plant-based specialty proteins
eastman	allylamine derivatives used in animal nutrition, e.g., gut health
evonik	animal nutrition, e.g., essential amino acids	human nutrition, e.g., omega-3-fatty acids
yara	crop nutrition

The data presented above suggests that a nutrition business is not being pursued by most of the 38 large global chemical companies being researched. Two of the 38 companies, Dupont and FMC, had nutrition businesses but recently sold them.  Five of the six companies in the table above are European.  This might suggest a different perspective in Europe on the business prospects for nutrition by a chemical company compared to America and Japan company perspectives.  Of the European companies in the table, DSM seems to have the most unique commitment of their resources to pursuing a nutrition business.  For example, DSM offers a service business in which it provides customers a personalized, precision solution related to nutrition.  DSM also, interesting, is pursuing business in the cultured meat and plant-based protein areas as an alternative to meat-base food.