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Restructuring in Performance Products Announced measures to strengthen competitiveness Leather and textile chemicals (March 18, 2013 & October 16, 2014) Water, oilfield and mining chemicals (March 27, 2013) Plastic additives and pigments (April 23, 2013) Pigments (October 23, 2013) Paper Chemicals (January 23, 2014 & September 24, 2014) Nutrition & Health (April 25, 2014) Care Chemicals (June 5, 2014) Further measures BASF Capital Market Story January 2015 Measures ■ Establishment of global innovation center in China Divestiture of textile chemicals ■ Establishment of global business unit to realize synergies ■ Divestment of industrial water management business Adjustments at sites in the Basel area to adapt to changed market ☐ conditions ☐ Downsizing of R&D activities ☐ ☐ Optimization of global production network Closure, restructuring and evaluation of strategic options for production assets Latex plant in EU shut down. Kaolin: Strategic options under evaluation ■ From Jan. 1, 2015: Division dissolved, new set-up follows value chains Adaption of product portfolio and organizational processes to market realities ■ Set of measures to adapt to changed customer needs and market conditions within its Home Care, Industrial & Institutional Cleaning and Formulation Technologies businesses Ongoing 150 years Q-BASF We create chemistry ■ Reduction of >2,400 positions until end of 2017 ■ Annual earnings contribution of €500 Million from 2017 onwards ■ One-time costs in the magnitude of ~€250-300 Million 17

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