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Limagrain is an international agricultural co-operative group, specialized in field seeds, vegetable seeds and cereal products. Founded and managed by French farmers, Limagrain is the 3rd largest seed company in the world through its holding Vilmorin & Cie, European leader for functional flours through Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients, 2nd largest French baker and 3rd largest French pastry ...
In 2000 the French plant breeding group Limagrain and KWS decided to merge their corn business in North America and formed the joint venture AgReliant. In 2003 KWS founded KWS Türk in Turkey to enhance the distribution of seeds in North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt) and Middle Eastern countries including Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. [6]
Vilmorin is a French seed producer. The company has a long history in France, where it was family-controlled for almost two centuries, and today exists as a publicly traded company owned principally by agro-industrial cooperative Groupe Limagrain, the largest plant breeding and seed company in the European Union.
The headquarters of Groupe Limagrain, an international agricultural co-operative group, specialized in field seeds, vegetable seeds and cereal products, are located in Saint-Beauzire. A science park hosting biotechnology companies is located in Saint-Beauzire: Biopôle Clermont-Limagne.
In 1981, Ferry-Morse became part of France's Groupe Limagrain, the largest seed producer in the world. [11] In 2005, Groupe Limagrain sold Ferry-Morse to Jiffy International. [12] In 2012, Seed Holdings acquired Ferry-Morse from Jiffy. The business was merged into Plantation Products, a privately owned gardening company based in Massachusetts. [13]
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The company was sold to Shell in 1970 and subsequently Groupe Limagrain. In 1960 he founded Cherry Valley Farms Ltd, [4] leading supplier of duck breeding stock and exporting globally. He had two daughters; Louise and the journalist Rosie Whitaker née Nickerson. [5]
Despite its small local market, the Auvergne region has developed many national and international companies, such as Michelin, Limagrain (seed), the Centre France-La Montagne group (regional daily press), Volvic mineral water (Danone group) and numerous dynamic SMEs around the two universities and high schools (engineering, medical and business ...