Ellen Kullman CEO DuPont

摘要

What is DuPont focused on today? Food, fuel, and safety, I guess, if you want to put it down to three words. Let's start with food. You recently acquired Danisco, a Danish enzyme maker, for $7.1 billion. What sparked your interest? Over a decade ago, I had the opportunity to get to know their Genencor division, which is industrial biosciences. We had a development agreement with them, and it seemed like the skills in that area were very complementary. Together we could create things, like the cellulosic ethanol program that's coming to fruition right now. When Danisco sold off their commodity sugars business, what was left was a very high-quality portfolio of products in nutrition and health and biosciences that fit with where DuPont was going. It's unique when you buy a company of that size that everything fits.