This article is about the corporation. For the town in Frankfurt am Main, see Höchst (Frankfurt am Main). For other uses, see Hoechst.
Hoechst AG
Company type
Public
Industry
Chemical, pharmaceutical
Founded
1863; 161 years ago (1863)
Successor
Sanofi
Headquarters
Höchst, Frankfurt, Germany
Number of employees
96,967 (31 December 1998)
The former Hoechst AG and today's Industriepark Höchst
Hoechst AG (German pronunciation:[ˈhøːkst]) was a German chemicals, later life sciences, company that became Aventis Deutschland after its merger with France's Rhône-Poulenc S.A. in 1999. With the new company's 2004 merger with Sanofi-Synthélabo, it became a subsidiary of the resulting Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceuticals group.
HoechstAG (German pronunciation: [ˈhøːkst]) was a German chemicals, later life sciences, company that became Aventis Deutschland after its merger with...
Hoechst stains are part of a family of blue fluorescent dyes used to stain DNA. These bis-benzimides were originally developed by HoechstAG, which numbered...
Verwaltungsgebäude) of HoechstAG is an expressionist office building by the architect Peter Behrens on the site of the former Hoechst company in Frankfurt-Höchst...
employees. In 1995 HoechstAG of Germany announced plans to buy Dow's increased 71 percent share for $25.75 a share or $7.1 Billion. Hoechst also bought the...
In 1966, Austria Faserwerke GesmbH was founded jointly with Farbwerke HoechstAG formerly Meister Lucius & Brüning, Frankfurt a. M. This company built...
Hoechst, Hochst, or Höchst may refer to: HoechstAG, a former German life-sciences company Hoechst stain, one of a family of fluorescent DNA-binding compounds...
also began its association, about this time, with HoechstAG of Germany while co-promoting Hoechst Pharmaceuticals Limited, now known as Aventis Pharma...
was acquired by HoechstAG in 1953. In 1967, as a result of the merger with electrode manufacturing at HoechstAG, Siemens Planiawerke AG für Kohlefabrikate...
before it was acquired by HoechstAG of Frankfurt, Germany in 1997, with pharmaceutical operations combined into the Hoechst Marion Roussel (HMR) division...
was discovered accidentally in 1967 by German chemist Karl Clauss at HoechstAG (now Nutrinova). In chemical structure, acesulfame potassium is the potassium...
fertilizer. He was the chairman of Sanofi India (previously known as HoechstAG and Aventis) and the chairman of Bayer CropScience in India for over 20...
in China and Solucel in Venezuela) was originally brought to market by HoechstAG and later acquired by Piramal Enterprises. Davies, M. J. (1987). "Polygeline"...
, "Production of acetyl chloride", published 1982-10-05, assigned to HoechstAG Charles Merritt, Jr and Charles E. Braun "9-Acetylanthracene" Org. Synth...
Siemens. It was founded by chemical company HoechstAG in 1874. At the beginning of the 1980s HoechstAG was the largest pharmaceutical corporation and...
research division of HoechstAG. In 1951 he became a deputy member of the Board, and two years later a regular member of HoechstAG's Board of Directors...
of excavating equipment HOE, pharmaceutical compound number prefix for HoechstAG James Hoe, American academic Richard March Hoe (1812–1886), American inventor...
N’-Tetraacetyl-ethylendiamin, Erfinder: G. Müller-Schiedmayer, R. Aigner, Anmelder: HoechstAG, veröffentlicht am 31. Oktober 1979 Europäische Patentanmeldung EPA 0...
The Wacker process or the Hoechst-Wacker process (named after the chemical companies of the same name) refers to the oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde...
survivors of Nazi medical experiment filed lawsuits against Bayer AG, HoechstAG and Schering AG. In 2003, Simon Rozenkier filed a lawsuit against Schering and...
pharmaceutical company, until bought by HoechstAG in 1997) as a salesman in Australia. In 1996, he became General Manager of Hoechst Marion Roussel in Australia...
renamed Marion Merrell Dow. In 1995 HoechstAG acquired the pharmaceutical business of Marion Merrell Dow. Hoechst in turn became part of Aventis in 1999...
Hoechst Schering AgrEvo GmbH was a Düsseldorf-based limited liability company owned by HoechstAG and Schering AG that only existed as an independent...
protected by a patent which was assigned to the German pharmaceutical company HoechstAG (since merged into Aventis) on 29 October 1991. The patent was scheduled...
obtained methylene blue from the company Meister Lucius & Brüning AG (later renamed HoechstAG), which started a long collaboration with this company. Before...
Clariant merged with the specialty chemicals business that was spun off from HoechstAG in Germany. In 1996, Ciba-Geigy merged with Sandoz, with the pharmaceutical...
which by then was known as Berger, Jenson and Nicholson, was acquired by HoechstAG in 1970 and by Williams Holdings in 1988. On 17 December 1923, Mr. Hadfield...
sixth group of compounds synthesized for testing; it was marketed by HoechstAG under the trade name "Salvarsan" in 1910. Salvarsan was the first organic...
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