Founded during the year 1994, Akzo Nobel having its current headquarters located in Amsterdam of The Netherlands, is the global enterprise actively engaged in the sectors of healthcare products, coatings and chemicals. The company has been functioning in over 80 nations across the world today employing around 62,000 people and had accrued the total sales of EUR 13 billion during the year 2005 of which almost 27 percent was from the Pharma products, 43 percent from its Coatings division and balance 30 percent through the Chemical products of the company.

                                           

Akzo Nobel is said to have comprised of 15 different business units with business dependability and independence. For the sake of proper administration they collaborate in 3 groups which are again supported by one managerial board. The three groups include, Pharma, Coatings and Chemicals and each of them independently manage like 4 entities, 6 entities and 7 entities respectively.       

 

Pharma Group is being operated by 4 subsidiary units like:

Organon International – for human healthcare and the products developed by the unit include Contraceptives like NuvaRing, Antidepressants like Remeron SolTab, Infertility treatments like Puregon and Follistim, Veterinary vaccines like Nobivac for dog & cat vaccines and Equilis – the horse vaccines. Intervet – for animal healthcare, Diosynth – for producing several basic bulk drugs, and Nobilon – for producing vaccines

 

Coatings Group is the major company having significant products like paints, services and specialized equipments for car repair and transportation markets. The group is being operated by units which include: Car Refinishes-CR, Decorative Coatings-DECO, Industrial Finishes-IF, Powder Coatings-POW, Marine & Protective Coating-MPC and Nobilas. The product range include: Sikkens, International, Interpon, Casco, Nordsjo, Sadolin, Taubmans, Crown, Lesonal, Levis, Flora, Vivexrom, Marshall and Pinotech. Same is the case with Chemicals division.