primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . november 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message danisco a s type wholly owned subsidiary of dupont industry agriculture chemicals founded 1989 1989 headquarters copenhagen denmark key people craig f. binetti president products enzymes and excipients bioingredients revenue dkk 13.71 billion 2009 10 1 operating income dkk 895 million 2009 10 1 profit dkk 480 million 2009 10 1 owner dupont number of employees 6 880 april 2010 1 website www.danisco.com danisco a s is a danish bio based company with activities in food production enzymes and other bioproducts as well as a wide variety of pharmaceutical grade excipients . it was formed in 1989 from the largest danish industrial merger ever of the two old c.f. tietgen companies danish sugar founded 1872 and dansk handels og industri company danisco a s . 2 3 danisco was one of the world s leading producers of ingredients for food and other consumer products and was also one of the biggest sugar producers in europe until the divestment of its sugar division to nordzucker 4 in 2009 . headquartered in copenhagen the group has approximately 6 800 employees in more than 80 locations in 40 countries . 5 danisco shares were listed on the copenhagen stock exchange and a member of the blue chip omx copenhagen 20 index until june 2011 when dupont completed 6 a us 6.3 billion acquisition of the company . 7 contents 1 activities 1.1 research and development 2 references 3 external links activities edit the company s activities were structured into two lines of business food ingredients and industrial enzymes . the food ingredients business supplied bio based ingredients for food and beverage products and comprises the business segments enablers cultures and sweeteners 8 while the industrial enzymes business handled by daughter company genencor focuses on industrial biotechnology and encompasses business segments such as fabric and household care enzymes for laundry and dishwashing detergents technical enzymes enzymes for bioethanol and carbohydrate processing as well as textile treatment and food and animal nutrition enzymes for bread feed and brewing applications . danisco also had two biochemical projects dupont danisco cellulosic ethanol llc a biofuels joint venture with dupont and a project with goodyear to develop a new type of synthetic rubber called bioisoprene . 9 on 9 january 2011 dupont announced that it had reached agreement to buy danisco for us 6.3 billion . 10 the acquisition was motivated by a desire by dupont to gain production of food additives and enzymes used in biofuels . 11 on may 16 2011 dupont announced that its tender offer for danisco had been successful and that it would proceed to redeem the remaining shares and delist the company . 12 the food ingredients and enzyme businesses were combined with pre existing similar activities at dupont into two business division named nutrition and health and industrial biotechnologies research and development edit a considerable number of the employees are engaged in research and development of new products for the international food industry . 13 today the group holds more than 9 300 active patents and patent applications . 14 their work led to the understanding of the mechanism of crispr the bacterial antiviral defense . 15 16 crispr is a prokaryotic immune system that is both adaptive and inheritable . references edit a b c d annual report 2009 2010 pdf . danisco . retrieved 7 november 2010 . cortzen jan 1997 . merchants and mergers ; the story of danisco . borsens forlag copenhagen . nordic sugar history shared history nordzucker completes acquisition of danisco sugar and significantly expands market position braunschweig copenhagen 03.03.09 . danisco a s business information profile and history companies jrank danisco a s deletion . nasdaq omx copenhagen . 10 june 2011 . retrieved 22 june 2011 . nicholson chris v. 16 may 2011 . dupont offer for danisco succeeds . the new york times . retrieved 22 june 2011 . danisco a s snapshot corporate information bioisoprene goodyear concept tire with bioisoprene technology wins environmental achievement of the year award . dupont to acquire danisco for 6.3 billion wilmington del . jan. 9 2011 prnewswire . prnewswire.com . retrieved january 9 2011 . kaskey jack ; wienberg christian 18 february 2011 dupont extends danisco deadline china eu have yet to approve 5.8 b deal delawareonline bloomberg news oclc 38962480 retrieved 19 february 2011 dupont successfully completes tender offer for danisco yahoo finance . finance.yahoo.com . retrieved 2011 05 16 . danisco a s company profile reference for business danisco in brief danisco publication the crispr craze crispr provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes external links edit official website v t e dupont corporate directors edward d. breen lamberto andreotti robert a. brown bertrand p. collomb alexander m. cutler th re du pont james l. gallogly marillyn hewson lois juliber ulf m. mark schneider lee m. thomas patrick j. ward products corian fe 13 hypalon kalrez kapton kevlar mylar neoprene nomex nylon sorona teflon tyvek vespel viton zodiaq zytel subsidiaries and joint ventures dupont pioneer danisco solae dupont danisco antec international divisions and facilities dupont central research dupont experimental station hotel dupont notable people leuth re ir n e du pont alfred i. du pont eugene du pont francis gurney du pont francis ir n e du pont henry du pont lammot du pont pierre s. du pont jeffery stanford agate anthony joseph arduengo iii samuel bodman norman borlaug donaldson brown richard h. brown wallace carothers uma chowdhry thomas m. connelly curtis j. crawford john t. dillon linda fisher richard goodmanson charles o. holliday steven ittel edward g. jefferson ellen j. kullman stephanie kwolek james lynah rudolph pariser george parshall charles j. pedersen william dale phillips roy j. plunkett john j. raskob william k. reilly irving s. shapiro richard r. schrock joseph shivers howard ensign simmons jr. charles stine frederick n. tebbe chadwick a. tolman earl tupper charles m. vest edgar s. woolard jr. nathaniel c. wyeth history du pont family hagley museum and library eleutherian mills e. i. du pont de nemours company hercules powder company atlas chemical industries b reactor manhattan project remington arms savannah river site kinetic chemicals conoco inc. consolidation coal company dupont analysis dupont v. kolon industries du pont motors dupont building incl . the playhouse on rodney square formerly the dupont playhouse chemours sponsorship tour dupont dupont pioneer 250 hendrick motorsports the dupont show with june allyson dupont show of the month category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title danisco & oldid 736647310 categories dupont subsidiariesmanufacturing companies based in copenhagencompanies established in 1989hidden categories articles lacking reliable references from november 2010all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages danskdeutschespa olfran aisitalianosuomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 28 august 2016 at 22 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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