- CEO
- Thomas Schinecker
- Full Time Employees
- 112,774
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Drug Manufacturers - General
- Address
- Grenzacherstrasse 124 Basel BS Switzerland 4070
- IPO Date
- Oct 23, 2025
- Business
- Roche Holding AG is a global healthcare company that researches, develops, manufactures and commercializes pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, with additional digital solutions designed to support precision healthcare; the company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Its Pharma division includes medicines across oncology, hematology, immunology, ophthalmology, neurology, infectious diseases and cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, while its Diagnostics division offers in vitro diagnostics, clinical chemistry, immunodiagnostics, molecular diagnostics, tissue diagnostics, digital pathology, laboratory automation and related services; Roche also operates through Genentech in the United States and holds a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceutical in Japan. Roche continues to expand its partnering and acquisition strategy, reporting more than 240 partnerships across Pharma, 75 new diagnostics agreements in 2025 and 24 diagnostics acquisitions since 2014, alongside a global partnership with Nurix Therapeutics to advance the BTK degrader bexobrutideg. In 2025 and 2026, Roche completed the acquisitions of Poseida Therapeutics, SAGA Dx and 89bio, agreed to acquire PathAI to strengthen AI-driven digital pathology and diagnostics, and entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Zealand Pharma to co-develop and co-commercialize petrelintide for people who are overweight or have obesity. The company has also emphasized a more selective, partnership-led innovation model, with management highlighting productivity gains in its pipeline and continued investment in digital pathology, companion diagnostics and AI-enabled laboratory workflows.