Dutch giant, Royal DSM, this week announced a $2.6 billion deal...

Dutch giant, Royal DSM, this week announced a $2.6 billion deal in which it will spin off its pharmaceutical manufacturing division to a New York private equity firm.

DSM Nutritional Products is one of the world's leading suppliers of vitamins, carotenoids and other ingredients to the global animal feed, human food, pharmaceutical and personal care industries. DSM has a market cap of US$14.3 billion and earned US$12.3 billion in revenue last year. In recent years it has been shifting its focus to the vitamin and nutrition market, spending US$3.2 billion in acquisitions in this segment since 2010.

DSM is the world’s largest manufacturer of Vitamin E, and earlier this year a leading expert from the company issued a global “wake up call" for new science on Vitamin E. DSM uses Vitamin E widely in its formulations. One example is Rovimix E50, a dairy cow formulation claimed to contain a highly bioavailable form of Vitamin E that is said to improve immunity, reduce susceptibility to mastitis and improve fertility.

I’m thinking that the rolling caravan of Rob Neely’s so called “TPM sideshow” will be of interest to DSM.



http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/dutch-firm-to-spin-off-drug-making-business-in-2-6-billion-deal/

http://www.dsm.com/corporate/about/business-entities/dsm-nutritional-products.html

http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/DSM-expert-issues-wakeup-call-for-new-science-on-vitamin-E

http://www.dsm.com/markets/anh/en_US/products/products-vitamins/products-vitamins-rovimix-e-50.html