http://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-m-a-bayer-deal-idUSKCN11K128
German drugs and crop chemicals company Bayer has won over U.S. seeds firm Monsanto with an improved takeover offer of $66 billion including debt, ending months of wrangling after increasing its bid for a third time. The $128 a share deal announced on Wednesday, up from Bayer's previous offer of $127.50 a share, is the biggest of the year so far and the largest cash bid on record.
The transaction will create a company commanding more than a quarter of the combined world market for seeds and pesticides in a fast-consolidating farm supplies industry. However, competition authorities are likely to scrutinize the tie-up closely, and some of Bayer's own shareholders have been critical of a takeover plan which they say is too expensive and risks neglecting the company's pharmaceutical business.
"Bayer's competitors are merging, so not doing this deal would mean having a competitive disadvantage," said Markus Manns, a fund manager at Union Investment, one of Bayer's top 12 investors, according to ThomsonReuters data.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 16 2016, @10:52AM
The Farben family chemical cartel
I never knew that the Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie, aka. IG Farben, was actually a family chemical cartel named after Albert and Ethel Farben. You learn something new every day. I'm guessing it's a different IG Farben than the one that introduced the world to antibiotics and won several Nobel prizes in chemistry and medicine for their work. The "century of genocide" only lasted a few years in the 1940s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @05:03PM
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