DKSH, also known as DiethelmKellerSiberHegner, is a Swiss holding company specialising in market expansion services, e.g. outsourcing. Although its headquarters is in Zurich, DKSH is deeply rooted in communities all across the Asia Pacific region. The company offers any combination of sourcing, marketing, sales, distribution and after-sales-services and is organized into four Business Units: Consumer Goods (including the Business Segment Luxury & Lifestyle), Healthcare, Performance Materials and Technology. Its core business is supporting other companies to grow their business in new or existing markets. With 850 business locations in 36 countries and 33,350 specialized staff, it is one of the top 30 Swiss companies ranked by sales and employees. In 2019, DKSH generated annual net sales of CHF 11.6 billion. Organizational background The company has its origin in the activities of three Swiss entrepreneurs who sailed east to Asia in the 1860s. Independently and within a few years of each other, Hermann Siber set off for the Japanese port of Yokohama, Wilhelm Heinrich Diethelm for Singapore and Eduard Anton Keller for the Philippines. As the oldest of the original companies, 'Siber & Brennwald' was founded in Yokohama in 1865. 'Siber & Brennwald' was one of the first European companies to be established in Japan, just a few months after the establishment of the "Treaty of Amity and Trade" between the two nations on February 6 of 1864. In 1868, Eduard Anton Keller joined C. Lutz & Co., which was founded in Manila in 1866, and renamed this existing enterprise Ed. A. Keller & Co. after he acquired it a year later in 1887. In a similar manner, in 1871 Wilhelm Heinrich Diethelm joined Hooglandt & Co., established in 1860 in Singapore. Sixteen years later, in 1887, he acquired this company and renamed it as Diethelm & Co. Ltd. The three ancestral companies expanded their business primarily in Asia. Although the European market played a subsidiary role, each headquarters was situated in Switzerland, which illustrates the intensive contact to the home country. Established in 1906 on the banks of Chao Phraya River, today the company is one of Thailand's leading business organizations, with annual sales of THB 123 billion in 2019. DKSH Thailand has close to 12,000 employees and a comprehensive network of branches across Thailand. It generates more than a third of overall revenues for DKSH. In 1931 Diethelm & Co., Ltd. was granted permission by Royal Warrant to display