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'''BASF SE''' is the world's largest chemical company and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Its North American subsidiary is BASF Corporation. BASF has around 95,000 employees on five continents.<ref>[http://www.corporate.basf.com/en/ueberuns/?id=bTGhHCGlibcp-5h About page], BASF, accessed May 2008.</ref> It is one of the [["Big 6" Biotech Corporations]], along with [[Bayer]], [[Dupont]], [[Dow]], [[Syngenta]], and [[Monsanto]] (so called because the dominate the agricultural input market -- that is, they own the world’s seed, pesticide and [[biotechnology]] industries).<ref name="PANNAcartel">Pesticide Action Network of North America, [http://www.panna.org/issues/pesticides-profit/chemical-cartel Chemical Cartel], organizational website, accessed July 2012</ref><ref>ETC Group, [http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/etc_WhoOwnsNature.pdf Who Owns Nature? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life], international civil society organizational report, November 2008, accessed July 2012</ref> ''Yahoo Finance'' states, "The company has six business segments: chemicals (basic, intermediate, and performance), plastics (thermoplastics, foams, and urethanes), coatings (automotive and coil coatings), fine chemicals (vitamins, feed supplements, and raw materials for pharmaceuticals), agricultural chemicals (herbicides, insecticides), and BASF Plant Science ([[biotechnology]])."