Roche family adds new members to shareholder group to ensure continuity

ZURICH (Reuters) - The family shareholder group that holds a 45.01% stake in Roche on Thursday added seven members from the next generation to the group, saying the move underscored the family's desire to preserve the pharmaceutical company's independence long-term. The shareholder pool, comprised of descendants of Roche founder Fritz Hoffman-La Roche, said the pool now counted nine fifth-generation and six fourth-generation family members. "We can thus provide the organisation with the surety..