F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
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Company History
Founded 1896 in Basel, Switzerland
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche founded the company in Basel in 1896 with an unusually international mindset for the era. Roche first scaled through standardized medicines and vitamins, then transformed through biotechnology, oncology, and diagnostics.
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche founded the company in Basel to manufacture and market standardized medicines internationally.
Roche became a major force in industrial vitamin production, building the cash engine that funded later pharmaceutical expansion.
Roche completed its full acquisition of Genentech, anchoring the modern oncology and biotechnology franchise.
Roche deepened its precision oncology position through diagnostics, genomic profiling, and real-world oncology data assets.
Roche reported CHF 61.5 billion in 2025 group sales, with CHF 47.7 billion from Pharmaceuticals and CHF 13.8 billion from Diagnostics.