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24.04.2023 • News

Another Turbulent AGM for Bayer?

Bayer has seen its share of turbulent shareholder meetings, and the event on Apr. 28 is likely to continue in that vein, though it would be tough to top 2019. In that year, when anger over lawsuits involving Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide boiled over, 55% voted not to discharge CEO Werner Baumann and the managing board of their responsibilities.

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01.03.2023 • News

Baumann Calls US Legal System Unjust

At his last – virtual – annual results press conference before handing over the CEO’s job to Bill Anderson in May, in addition to reviewing figures for 2022 and trying to assess the still clouded look for 2023, outgoing Bayer chief Werner Baumann took the opportunity to criticize the US legal system.

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14.12.2022 • News

French Farmer Wins €11,000 in Bayer Herbicide Lawsuit

A French farmer who said he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, fainting and headaches after inhaling fumes from Bayer’s Lasso-branded herbicide in an agricultural accident, has won compensation of €11,135, ending more than 15 years of litigation.

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29.08.2022 • News

Ineos Phenol to Buy Mitsui Phenols Singapore

Ineos Phenol is paying $330 million to acquire Mitsui Phenols Singapore. With the deal, expected to close in the first quarter of 2023, subject to regulatory approval, it will add 1 million tonnes of annual capacity to its production volume. The business had sales of $750 million in 2021 and 120 employees, all of whom will transfer to the new owner.

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23.08.2022 • News

Bayer Rolls out US Digital Farming Platform

Under the name ForGround, Bayer is rolling out a US digital farming platform designed to help US growers use environmentally friendly practices and connect them with companies seeking more sustainable food, feed and biofuel ingredients.

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23.06.2022 • News

US Supreme Court Won’t Hear Bayer’s Roundup Petition

After months of anticipation, the US Supreme Court has deflated Bayer’s hopes that the court’s conservative majority would vote to hear its appeal to overturn a $25 million appeals court verdict in favor of Edwin Hardeman.

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21.06.2022 • News

Bayer Wins Fourth Roundup Appeal as EPA Zooms in

Bayer has won its fourth consecutive appeal of a US court case previously decided in favor of a plaintiff who claimed that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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11.04.2022 • News

Bayer Sidesteps St. Louis Roundup Trial

Bayer has settled a collection of claims from US plaintiffs that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused their cancer, the US newspaper St. Louis Dispatch reports. This, it said, avoids a publicity-sensitive trial that was due to start this week in the Missouri city that was Monsanto’s global headquarters before it was acquired by the German group for $63 billion in 2018.

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05.01.2022 • News

German Shareholders Sue Bayer over Stock Declines

In a departure from the accustomed geographical pattern of litigation against Bayer, investors based in Germany are suing the company for €2.2 billion ($2.5 billion). The shareholders are unhappy about the decline in the company’s share price on the back of hefty damage awards to US plaintiffs claiming that Monsanto’s non-selective herbicide Roundup caused their non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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14.12.2021 • News

Bayer Wins Second Roundup Case

Bayer has now won two of five cases in which US plaintiffs have charged that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused their cancer. All the cases have been heard in the state of California. In the second consecutive victory for the German group, a jury in San Bernardino County found that Roundup was not the cause of a woman's non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

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23.07.2021 • News

New Rules for Glyphosate Use Near in Germany

New wide-sweeping restrictions on the use of glyphosate, active ingredient in herbicides such as the Monsanto-developed Roundup and the subject of thousands of lawsuits still dogging Bayer, will take hold in Germany at the end of July or beginning of August, the agriculture ministry said.

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26.10.2020 • News

Bayer Denied Further Appeal of Roundup Verdict

The California Supreme Court has declined to hear Bayer’s appeal of the first jury verdict against it in a series of cases brought by US plaintiffs charging that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide causes cancer.

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