F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As the world’s biggest biotech company and an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts to improving people’s health and quality of life. Roche is the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and drugs for cancer and transplantation.

Our mission, today and in the future, is to create Download added value in the healthcare sector. Thereby we want to archieve top performances with our staff in all our fields and on all our Roche sites.

With R&D expenditure of almost 1.9 billion Swiss francs and investments of more than 420 million Swiss francs (2008), Roche in Switzerland plays a key role in the Group’s global research, development and production network. At Group headquarters in Basel and at other sites in Northwestern and Central Switzerland and in the cantons of Berne and Zurich, Roche employs a total of some 10,000 people. As a leader in the pharmaceuticals and in-vitro diagnostics sectors, Roche posted sales of 509 million Swiss francs in Switzerland in 2008.