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access to clean drinking water is also a major issue.

Danish company Vestergaard Frandsen has developed

LifeStrawFamily, a portable water purification

system. The easy-to-use application, which containsfilter membranes made of Ultrason E, a high-perfor-

mance plastic from BASF, can convert large amounts

of dirty water into drinking water.

Global challenge

HOUSING ANDCONSTRUCTIONPATHS TO

THE FUTURE

BASF is the worlds leading chemical company: The Chemical Company.

Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics and performance products to

agricultural products, fine chemicals as well as oil and gas. As a reliable partner,

BASF helps its customers in virtually all industries to be more successful.

With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, BASF plays an important

role in finding answers to global challenges such as climate protection, energy

efficiency, nutrition and mobility.

OUR STRATEGY

Despite the economic crisis and costs of 785 million

due to the Ciba integration, we only narrowly missed

our goal to earn a premium on our cost of capital in 2009.

Our long-term cost reduction and efficiency program

NEXT supported us in this and enabled us to save

expenses of about 300 million in 2009.

We earn a premium on our cost of capital

We form the best team in industry

We help our customers to be more successful

We ensure sustainable development

Customer satisfaction is an important precondition for

long-term economic success. In 2009, we again received

awards from many customers; BASF received the

Supplier of the Year Award from Procter & Gamble,

and is one of seven prize winners chosen by the

company from over 80,000 suppliers. In South America,

for example, we were awarded with the prize as best

supplier to the Suzano Group.

In spite of the difficult economic environment in 2009,

we invested in long-term issues, such as demography

and training. Our Diversity + Inclusion initiative aims at

attracting and winning employees with different cultural

backgrounds, experiences and ways of thinking

employees who are willing to use their personal and

professional competence to pursue the goals and

values of our company.

By combining economic success with environmental

protection and social responsibility, we ensure

sustainable development. This is our contribution to

a better future for society today and for coming

generations. Climate protection is part of our social

responsibility, therefore we want to continue to reduce

the emissions of greenhouse gases per metric ton of

sales product.

BASF SOLUTIONS FORCONSTRUCTION OF THE FUTURE

Solutions from BASF

www.basf.com/future/housing

+438%is the number by which, according to the OECD,

private transportation will grow by 2030.

How can we reconcile increasing mobility with

protecting the environment?

Solutions from BASF

Global challenge

MOBILITY

www.basf.com/future/mobility

+40%is the number by which, according to t he

International Energy Agency, energyrequirements will increase by 2030. Ensuring

a climate-friendly energy supply for a growing

world population and the efficient use of

resources are challenges for the future.

ENERGY ANDCLIMATE PROTECTION

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLYENERGY SOURCES AND EFFICIENCY

Solutions from BASF

Global challenge

www.basf.com/future/climate

BASF IN DIALOGUE WITHTHE POLITICAL WORLD THE VERBUND

The world is changing at a growing pace, and this

process determines the environment in which BASF

and its customers do business. For BASF, dialogue

with political representatives and with society is an

opportunity to explain our positions in a constructive

way. An important political task is to create favorable

conditions for companies and jobs. These needto be sustainable and promote competitiveness and

innovative strength. Our interaction with political

representatives focuses on objective considerations

relating to our company. To support political

dialogue at a local level, BASF has its own liaison

offices in Berlin, Brussels, Washington and Beijing.

We are also involved in numerous industry

associations around the world.

In the BASF Verbund, production facilities, energy

flow, logistics and infrastructure are intelligently

networked with each other to increase production

yields, save resources and energy and reduce

logistics costs. A key factor in the Verbund concept

is the Know-how Verbund, which encourages the

exchange of knowledge among BASF employeesworldwide. BASF pools this expertise in research

platforms.

HEALTH AND NUTRITION

4-5 millionhectares of corn are affected by drought

in the U.S. alone.

Global challenge

GOOD YIELDS ANDCLEAN DRINKING WATER

Solutions from BASF

www.basf.com/future/nutrition

90 million metric tons

Emissions from raw

materials, production

and disposal of all

BASF products

CARBON FOOTPRINT

BASF is the only industrial company to regularly

publish a comprehensive corporate carbonfootprint. The results show that BASF products save

three times more greenhouse gas emissions than

are released in the production and disposal of all

products. We want to maintain or even improve this

factor of 3:1 in the long term to secure competitive

advantages and meet our ambitious climate

protection targets.

FURTHER INFORMATION

You can find this and other BASF publ ications

on the Internet at www.basf.com

Corporate Media Relations

Jennifer Moore-Braun, Phone: +49 621 60-99123,

Fax: +49 621 60-92693

Sustainability Center

Dr. Eckhard Koch, Phone: +49 621 60-78638,

Fax: +49 621 60-6678638

Investor Relations

Magdalena Moll, Phone: +49 621 60-48230,

Fax: +49 621 60-22500

FOR A CLEAN ENVIRONMENTment in automobiles, such as heat reflecting pigments

or climate-active seat fabrics. In addition, we are

working to develop alternative drive system

technologies, such as fuel cells and more efficient

lithium-ion batteries.

287 million metric tons

Savings from the use of

our products through-

out their life cycle.

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BASF supports the chemical industry's global

initiative Responsible Care .

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Employeesworldwide

(as of December 31, 2009)

104,779

More information on BASFs economic performance in

2009 at www.basf.com

Sales

(in 2009)

50,693million Income from operations

(EBIT 2009)

3,677million

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Sales

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Sales by industry

Direct customers

Sales by segment

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Chemicals

> 15%

Automotive I Construction I Utilities 10 15%

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E le ct ri ca ls /E le ct ro ni cs I F ur ni tu re I P ap er < 5 %

Other Industries 10 15%

Chemicals 7,515

Plastics 7,128

Performance Products 9,356

Functional Solutions 7,115

Agricultural Solutions 3,646

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BASF:ACTIVEWORLDWIDE

Around 105,000 employees of the BASF G roup

help to make customers from nearly all sectors

and almost every country in the world become

more successful. We operate six Verbund sites

and approximately 380 other production sites

worldwide. BASF has subsidiaries in more than

80 countries.

EUROPE

Sales *

30,375millionEBIT

2,390millionEmployees

67,621* by location of company

NORTH AMERICA

Sales *

9,320 millionEBIT

495 millionEmployees


Regional centers

Verbund sites

Selectedproduction sites

Most importantresearch sites

Legend

ASIAPACIFIC

Sales *

7,997millionEBIT

503millionEmployees


Freeport

Geismar

So Paulo

Nanjing

Kuantan

Singapore

SOUTH AMERICA,AFRICA,MIDDLE EAST

Sales *

3,001millionEBIT

289 millionEmployees


Antwerp

Ludwigshafen

Hong Kong

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ENERGY EFFICIENT REBUILDINGIN NEW ORLEANS, USA

BASF, a partner supplier of the Clinton Climate

Initiative (CCI), helps rebuild houses that were

destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and makes them

more energy efficient.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONIN BRAZIL

In 2009, the South America reforestation andeducation program Mata Viva celebrated its

25th anniversary. Its goal is to restore forests

and provide environmental education to local

communities and agricultural cooperatives.

By 2009, 46,000 kids have taken part.

ACOUSTIC INSULATION IN KOREA

BASFs specialty foam Basotect is used as

acoustic insulation in Seouls subway: It ensures a

quieter and more comfortable trip in 25 subway

stations of Line 9.

WATER TREATMENTIN AFRICA

The guinea worm, a water-borne parasite found in

Africa, causes nausea, fever and painful infections

in humans. BASFs Abatelarvicide kills the insect

larvae and helps to make contaminated water safer.

TRANSPARENT CONCRETEFROM AUSTRIA

Stable but also transparent: Luccon and BASF are

making concrete transparent. Light is transmitted

through a special fiber integrated in the concrete,

in this way opening up many new possibilities for

architecture.

DESIGN IDEAS FROM ENGLAND

In a BASF-sponsored project, students from th e

Royal College of Art in London developed product

ideas out of the versatile plastic Ultradur: from irons

to light fixtures to wash basins. The results were

displayed at the FAKUMA plastics fair in 2009.

BIODIESEL FROM BRAZIL

You need chemistry to make biodiesel from

vegetable oils, such as special catalysts from

BASF. These will now also be produced in Brazil,

where the foundation stone for a new plant has

been laid.

SOCIAL BUSINESSIN BANGLADESH

BASF SE and Grameen Healthcare Trust are

breaking new ground with their social business

BASF Grameen Ltd.: Its goals are better health

care and business opportunities for the poor in

Bangladesh. As start-up support, BASF has

provided mosquito nets and dietary supplement

sachets containing vitamins and micronutrients.

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