26.10.2012
- From Agrium's perspective, a campaign by Jana Partners to break up the Canadian fertilizer company is effectively dead in the water. But the $3.5 billion activist hedge fund...
22.10.2012
- Canadian fertilizer maker and agricultural goods retailer Agrium said on Monday its board plans to double the annual dividend payout. The move, announced as the company completed a...
22.10.2012
- Pesticides used in farming are also killing worker bumblebees and damaging their ability to gather food, meaning colonies that are vital for plant pollination are more likely to...
18.10.2012
- Saltigo, the custom manufacturing business of Lanxess' Advanced Intermediates segment, which achieved total sales of €1.5 billion in 2011, has realigned its strategy. The company...
03.10.2012
- Global agribusiness group Monsanto posted a fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday, as expected, amid a seasonally sluggish sales period, and offered a conservative outlook for the new...
02.10.2012
- U.S. farmers are using more hazardous pesticides to fight weeds and insects due largely to heavy adoption of genetically modified crop technologies that are sparking a rise of...
25.09.2012
- Mergers & Acquisitions - Recently, Squire Sanders commissioned a report from their partners at Mergermarket on mergers and acquisitions activity in the chemicals and industrials...
25.09.2012
- Production in Asia vs. the West - Fine chemicals are chemical substances that have a relatively high average price (similar to specialty chemicals), but they are sold based solely...
