Company overview
- Sector
- Industrial, Machinery & Engineering
- Sub-sector
- Chemicals
- Mandate (derived)
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
- Parent headquarters
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $69,900,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 28,350
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Navi Mumbai
- Mangalore
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .NET
- 24-7 Media
- ABAP
- ABB Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
- AC500 PLC
- ADP
- ADP Applicant Tracking System
- AI
- ANGEL LMS
- ARES
- ASP.NET
- AVEVA E3D Design
- AVEVA InTouch HMI
- AWS Analytics
- AWS App Mesh
Public leadership
Milind Joshi
Managing Director and Global Finance Service Delivery
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
BASF SE, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, is the world's largest chemical producer, with FY2023 sales of roughly €68.9 billion and a global workforce of approximately 111,991 employees across production, R&D and business-services sites worldwide.
- India launch
- Not disclosed
- Maturity
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
UNVERIFIED - could not confirm or refute this tag. The verifiable India footprint (manufacturing plants, Mumbai R&D/Innovation Campus, Vikhroli corporate office) looks like a legacy operating-company footprint rather than a confirmed formal GBS/GCC entity; no source describing function scope or maturity was found.
Location rationale
BASF's confirmed India footprint centers on legacy chemicals manufacturing (8 production facilities, incl. a long-standing site near Mangalore tied to the 1990-2005 Asia investment wave) and an R&D hub - the Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Mumbai (opened 2017). BASF India Limited's registered corporate office is in Vikhroli, Mumbai. No evidence found of a distinct, newly sited GCC/GBS entity elsewhere; on-file 'Navi Mumbai, Mangalore' most plausibly correspond to this legacy footprint rather than a dedicated GBS/GCC campus.
Timeline
- 1943 (unverified)
BASF's India chemicals business traces back to the pre-independence era; exact founding year not re-verified in this pass.
- 1990-2005
BASF invested roughly €5.6 billion across Asia during this period, including expansion of manufacturing operations near Mangalore.
- 2017
BASF opened its 'Innovation Campus Asia Pacific' in Mumbai - described as BASF's second-largest R&D site in Asia Pacific.
- 2026-08-18
BASF opened a new Global Diaper and Superabsorbents Performance Lab at its Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Mumbai.
- 2025-2026
UNVERIFIED: no BASF press release, careers posting, or business-press article located confirming a newly announced, separately branded Global Business Services (GBS)/GCC entity in Hyderabad or elsewhere. Open item, not confirmed.
Real estate
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Hiring signal
- Open roles
- Not disclosed
- As of
- Not disclosed
News and developments
BASF opens Global Diaper and Superabsorbents Performance Lab in Mumbai
BASF inaugurated a new Performance Lab at its Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Mumbai (est. 2017, BASF's second-largest R&D site in Asia Pacific); will provide technical/application services to superabsorbent customers globally.
2026-08-18 BASF Newsroom ↗
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.