17.05.2016
- ChemChina has extended its $43 billion offer for Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta by more than a month as it waits for regulatory approval. The main offer period has been...
13.05.2016
- Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta has launched a range of new biostimulants, called Epivio, which address abiotic stress through seed treatment. Over the last five years Syngenta...
09.05.2016
- Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta has named J. Erik Fyrwald, currently president and CEO of US chemical distributor Univar, to head the company from Jun. 1, 2016. Fyrwald succeeds...
08.04.2016
- Getting back to business after the collapse of the plan to take over Swiss rival Syngenta, Monsanto’s CEO, Hugh Grant, told journalists this week the company no longer sees “large...
07.04.2016
- Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta has sought to assure US lawmakers critical of the company’s planned $43 billion takeover by ChemChina that the deal poses no food safety or...
04.04.2016
- Until recently, few outsiders would have called the agricultural chemicals sector exciting. It’s hard to imagine, for example, a thriller or torrid love story or even a poem set in...
23.03.2016
- Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta, currently in the throes of being acquired by ChemChina for $43 billion, may soon have a new chief executive. That is, if none of the currently...
22.03.2016
- China could be poised for another spectacular takeover of a Western company, as China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is seen to be mulling a deal for Brazilian...
