Post-merger, nutrition giant dsm-firmenich zeroes in on preventative healthcare

JUST over a year since Dutch nutrition company DSM merged with Swisse fragrance and flavour business Firmenich to become dsm-firmenich, the combined entity is focusing on capturing a growing market for preventative healthcare.

There has been a shift from healthcare services that cure to those that prevent the onset of diseases, said dsm-firmenich’s chief executive officer Dimitri de Vreeze.

“At this moment in time in the world, 80 per cent of healthcare is spent on curing. We wait for people to become ill, then we start thinking of ways to solve the ageing population – and spending money to do so.