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Monsanto tried to acquire Swiss agro-biotechnology rival Syngenta for US$46.5 billion in 2015, but failed. [77] In that year Monsanto was the world's biggest supplier of seeds, controlling 26% of the global seed market (Du Pont was second with 21%). [78] Monsanto was the only manufacturer of white phosphorus for military use in the US. [79]
Monsanto merges with Pharmacia and Upjohn, [1] so the agricultural division became a wholly owned subsidiary of the "new" Pharmacia. 2000: Corporation: Pharmacia spins off its Monsanto subsidiary into a new company, [1] the "new Monsanto" - which then raises $700 million in a new IPO. [32] The "new Monsanto" is legally distinct from the old pre ...
Established in 1937, in Williamsburg, Iowa by Roland Holden, Holden was the largest independent producer of foundation seed in America before being acquired by Monsanto Company in 1997. [1] [2] Monsanto was subsequently acquired by Bayer in 2018, and Holden is now part of Bayer Crop Science. Today Holden's activities include the research and ...
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Bayer Corporation (also known as Bayer USA) is the American subsidiary of Bayer AG. Its main offices are located in Whippany, New Jersey . In addition it has 40 fully consolidated subsidiary companies [ 3 ] located in 19 different states.
DeKalb Genetics Corporation (often stylized DEKALB; formerly DeKalb Agricultural Association and DEKALB AgResearch) was a diversified company headquartered in DeKalb, Illinois that marketed agricultural seeds and other products. The company was best known for its leading role in the development of hybrid corn and for its "winged ear" logo.
Mobay Chemical Corporation, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a joint venture of Monsanto Company and Bayer to market polyurethanes in the United States. Founded in 1954, Bayer bought out Monsanto's shares in the company in the 1970s. Mobay, along with Miles Laboratories, was a member of Bayer's menagerie of companies in the US. Bayer did ...
The 20th-century Monsanto Company, in the midst of a roughly five-year series of mergers and spin-offs (which had the effect of reducing its focus on chemicals in favor of biotechnology), legally ceased to exist in 2000. A new Monsanto Company was created and Grant became executive vice president and chief operating officer of this