BASF Report 2021 Management’s Report – Nutrition & Care 85 Nutrition & Care D’lite In the Nutrition & Care segment, consisting of the Care Keeping on top of rapidly changing consumer trends in a fast-moving cosmetics market is a major Chemicals and Nutrition & Health divisions, we serve the challenge for traditional market analyses and product development processes. BASF developed a new growing and increasingly sophisticated demands for fast- digital platform to address precisely this: D’lite helps customers to identify the best cosmetic offerings and moving consumer goods. Our customers include food and ingredients. This service combines the Care Chemicals division’s industry knowledge with a wide range of feed producers as well as the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, data from multiple internal and external sources, including analyses of social media sites, blogs, forums detergent and cleaner industries. We also offer solutions for and review portals. D’lite supports BASF’s customers along the entire product development chain – from technical applications and for crop protection and nutrition. consumer and market understanding, concept and strategy development to formulation design – and We strive to expand our position as a leading provider of enables them to speed up the formulation process by up to 50%. ingredients and solutions for consumer goods in the areas of nutrition, home and personal care. Our goal is to drive Discover D’lite at dlite-global.basf.com organic growth. We focus on emerging markets, new busi- ness models and sustainability trends in consumer markets, supported by acquisitions. For more information on the Nutrition & Care segment’s business model, see page 33 onward Sales €6,442 million 2020: €6,019 million EBIT before special items €497 million 2020: €773 million