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Roche Holding
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« ETHICAL » RATING OF ROCHE
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| Job: 4% of company's jobs cut since 1998 |
| Environment: 2 major pollution(s) |
| Delinquency: 5 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency |
| Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 2 offshore financial center(s) |
| Sales: more than 31 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales |
| Net profit: more than 15 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 |
| Top management: earns 505 times the median income in the United States (32000 US$/year) |
| Influence: 10 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying |
| Advertising & marketing: 1 dubious practice(s) |
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Relevance: business & market share |
year | business source |
| 2008 | Roche is the world's biggest maker of cancer medicines. |  |
| 2006 | Roche is the world's eighth-largest pharmaceutical group. | Les Echos |
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World locations & Manufacturing |
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| 2004Humer, Franz B |  Chief Executive Officer; salary: 10.78 million Eu€; |
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| year | dubious practice : image source |
| 2005 | Disinformation: Fleishman-Hillard is counseling Roche, whose reputation took a hit last month when it appeared to be "more eager to protect its 'monopoly' on its Tamiflu than preventing a worldwide avian flu pandemic.: public relations: F | PR Watch |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2003 | 65357 | | |
| 2002 | 69659 | | |
| 1998 | 66707 | | |
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| year | country : consequences source |
| 2007 | France : Between 1950 and 1960, Roche and other chemical industries of Basle illegally discarded 600 tons of nitrobenzine and other dyes synthesis products. The site was discovered by chance by a farmer of Hagenthal-le-bas. | |
| 2004 | : Stockage de 150 000 tonnes de déchets chimiques à Bonfol entre 1961 et 1976 à dix mètres de profondeur, sur une superficie de 20.000 m2. | AFP |
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| 2007 |
The laboratories Roche, BASF and Aventis were fined 8,5 million dollars in Brazil. They were accused of having formed a cartel, price agreements, market sharing and unfair competition on the market of vitamins. During second half of the Nineties, these three companies would have restricted the offer and increased the prices of the vitamins A, B2, B5 and C They would have also prevented the entry on the market of less expensive Chinese vitamins. |
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| 2006 |
Roche Holdings AG, BASF AG and Aventis will pay 30.5 mln usd to settle an Australian class action alleging they organised a cartel to fix the price of vitamins. The applicants in the class action, many of whom were farmers, alleged that as a result of the cartel they lost market share or paid inflated prices. |
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| 2003 |
| 31.22 | 3.07 | | | billion Eu€ | |
| 2002 |
| 21.42 | -2.9 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2001 |
| 15.64 | 2.21 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2001 |
Fined 462 million euros for fixing the price of vitamins on the european market. |
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| 2000 |
| 17.79 | 5.37 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1999 |
| 17.21 | 3.6 | | | billion Eu€ | |
| 1998 |
| 17.93 | 3.19 | | | billion US$ | |
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