BASF named a Top Foreign Corporate Citizen in Canada

Company receives designation for second consecutive year

MISSISSAUGA, ON, June 7, 2016 -- BASF recently received the designation as one of Canada’s Top Foreign Corporate Citizens for the second consecutive year by Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based media and research company. The list includes companies with substantial operations in Canada that are considered global leaders in corporate citizenship.

“An important part of leading corporate citizenship is having strategic management systems in place that consider environmental, economic and societal sustainability aspects along the value-chain,” said Charlene Wall-Warren, Director of Sustainability for BASF Corporation. “Through our company’s Sustainable Solutions Steering^® method, BASF analyzed over 60,000 solutions with plans to systematically increase our portfolio of innovative and sustainable solutions.”

Companies are evaluated based on sustainability disclosure practices, financial health, product categories and financial sanctions. To qualify, companies with global headquarters located outside of Canada must have a Canadian subsidiary on the 2015 Financial Post 500, the list of Canada’s biggest companies by revenue. The parent corporations must also qualify for Corporate Knights’ 2016 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations shortlist. In 2014, BASF was named in the Global 100 index of the world’s most sustainable corporations.

About BASF

BASF Canada, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, has 670 employees at 11 production facilities and offices located across Canada. BASF Canada is a subsidiary of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany and an affiliate of BASF Corporation, Florham Park, New Jersey. BASF has nearly 17,500 employees in North America, and had sales of $17.4 billion in 2015. For more information about BASF’s North American operations, visit www.basf.us. To find out more about BASF’s activities in Canada, visit www.basf.ca or follow us on Twitter.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The approximately 112,000 employees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into five segments: Chemicals, Performance Products, Functional Materials & Solutions, Agricultural Solutions and Oil & Gas. BASF generated sales of more than €70 billion in 2015. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (AN). Further information at www.basf.com.

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