Nutrition & Care
In the Nutrition & Care segment, consisting of the Care Chemicals and Nutrition & Health divisions, we serve the growing and increasingly sophisticated demands for fast-moving consumer goods. Our customers include food and feed producers as well as the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, detergent and cleaner industries. We also offer solutions for technical applications and for crop protection and nutrition. We strive to expand our position as a leading provider of ingredients and solutions for consumer goods in the areas of nutrition, home and personal care. Our goal is to drive organic growth. We focus on emerging markets, new business models and sustainability trends in consumer markets, supported by acquisitions.
Divisions
D’lite
Keeping on top of rapidly changing consumer trends in a fast-moving cosmetics market is a major challenge for traditional market analyses and product development processes. BASF developed a new digital platform to address precisely this: D’lite helps customers to identify the best cosmetic offerings and ingredients. This service combines the Care Chemicals division’s industry knowledge with a wide range of data from multiple internal and external sources, including analyses of social media sites, blogs, forums and review portals. D’lite supports BASF’s customers along the entire product development chain – from consumer and market understanding, concept and strategy development to formulation design – and enables them to speed up the formulation process by up to 50%.
Discover D’lite at dlite-global.basf.com
Factors influencing sales
EBIT before special items
| Million € | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| Sales to third parties | 6,442 |
6,019 | 6,075 |
| Share of total BASF sales (%) | 8 |
10 | 10 |
of which Care Chemicals |
4,439 |
3,989 | 4,118 |
Nutrition & Health |
2,003 |
2,030 | 1,957 |
| Income from operations before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) before special items | 909 |
1,190 | 1,214 |
| Income from operations before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) | 967 |
1,152 | 1,189 |
| EBITDA margin (%) | 15.0 |
19.1 | 19.6 |
| Income from operations (EBIT) before special items | 497 |
773 | 793 |
| EBIT before special items margin (%) | 7.7 |
12.8 | 13.1 |
| Income from operations (EBIT) | 554 |
688 | 644 |
| EBIT margin (%) | 8.6 |
11.4 | 10.6 |
| Return on capital employed (ROCE) (%) | 8.2 |
10.6 | 10.0 |