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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 introduces genetically modified Roundup Ready corn that is resistant to Roundup. [29] 1999: Corporation: Monsanto merges with Pharmacia and Upjohn, [1] so the agricultural division became a wholly owned subsidiary of the "new" Pharmacia. 2000: Corporation
Monsanto has been criticized for a mistaken lawsuit. In 2002, Monsanto mistakenly sued Gary Rinehart of Eagleville, Missouri for patent violation. Rinehart was not a farmer or seed dealer, but sharecropped land with his brother and nephew, who were violating the patent. Monsanto dropped the lawsuit against him when it discovered the mistake.
A meme that's recently enjoying some frequent sharing through social media like Facebook lists well-known consumer brands and companies, stating they are "owned" by genetically modified seeds ...
Last year, General Mills came under a lot of heat for not offering their most popular cereal brand--Cheerios--without genetically modified organism (GMOs). In Europe, the cereal had been GMO-free ...
Monsanto makes money selling genetically modified (GM) seeds. Though once a broader-scale chemicals company, Monsanto's seeds and genomics business accounted for over 70% of the company's gross ...
Apple's largest acquisition was that of Beats Electronics in August 2014 for $3 billion. [7] Of the companies Apple has acquired, 71 were based in the United States. In early-May 2019, Apple CEO Tim Cook said to CNBC that Apple acquires a company every two to three weeks on average, having acquired 20 to 25 companies in the past six months alone.
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