Agrochemical Company Mergers, Acquisitions & Collaborations in 2011 (part 1)

Date:03-10-2011

◆  Advanta India, a Hyderabad-based listed seed marketing company, acquired Texas-based Crosbyton Seed Company (CSC).

◆  Agrium Retail purchased the crop protection business of Miles Farm Supply of Owensboro, KY.

◆  Agrium Inc. acquired 24 retail farm centers in Argentina from DuPont Crop Protection, as well as its world-class crop protection formulation facility in Casilda, Argentina.

◆  AMVAC Chemical acquired a global product line relating to the active ingredient tebupirimfos (sold in the United States under the trade name Aztec) from Bayer CropScience.

◆  AMVAC Chemical acquired ethoprophos (sold under the trade name Mocap) and fenamiphos (sold under the trade name Nemacur) insecticide product lines from Bayer CropScience, LLC.

◆  AMVAC Chemical and Kanesho Soil Treatment completed agreements with Certis-USA regarding the crop protection product Basamid® (dazomet) under which AMVAC will become the exclusive distributor and registration holder for this granular soil fumigant in the United States. D, which has been marketing the product under a distribution agreement with Kanesho Soil Treatment, will continue to market Basamid into non-food crop applications under a distribution agreement with AMVAC.

◆  Arysta LifeScience South Africa acquired selected assets of Tsunami Plant Protection and the business and selected assets of Tsunami Crop Care.

◆  Arysta LifeScience signed an agreement with Asahi Chemicals Mfg. (Japan) to distribute and market nitrophenol-based plant growth regulator Atonik in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

◆  Arysta LifeScience North America announced an agreement with Syngenta Crop Protection to purchase Clodinafop, one of the best Group 1 herbicides available today. Under this agreement, Syngenta Crop Protection will supply Clodinafop 60EC, the formulation in Syngenta Discover® NG herbicide, to be marketed by Arysta LifeScience as NextStep™ NG.

◆  Arysta LifeScience and Cheminova reached an agreement for entering into closer cooperation for the Spanish market.

◆  Arysta LifeScience and Cheminova reached an agreement by which Ospray Pty Ltd, part of the Cheminova group based in Australia, will be the exclusive distributor of the Arysta LifeScience portfolio of crop protection products in Australia and New Zealand.

◆  Bayer CropScience acquired wheat breeding programs from two Ukrainian breeding companies, SORT and EUROSORT.

◆  Bayer CropScience acquired a product for the efficient control of varroa mites (Varroa destructor) from Exosect Ltd., Winchester, United Kingdom.

◆  Bayer CropScience acquired certain assets and technologies relating to biofungicide Shemer of AgroGreen in Ashdod, Israel.

◆  Bayer CropScience and BASF Plant Science announced a long-term collaboration agreement to improve rice productivity through plant biotechnology.

◆  Bayer CropScience and Evogene entered into a five-year collaboration to accelerate the development and introduction of improved wheat varieties.
◆  Bayer CropScience and SentiSearch entered into a two-year research agreement to cooperate in the identification of new molecules targeting odorant receptors in insects.

◆  Bayer CropScience and Mendel Biotechnology entered into a new three-year collaboration agreement to develop chemical products which make crops more resistant to biotic and abiotic stress factors.

◆  Bayer CropScience and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln signed a non-exclusive agreement to improve wheat breeding and generate new wheat varieties.

◆  Bayer CropScience LP announced that it has finalized a licensing agreement with Heads Up Plant Protectants Inc. for access to Heads Up seed treatment.

◆  Bayer CropScience announced an exclusive agreement on the use of its Poncho/Votivo seed treatment with Monsanto’s Acceleron seed treatment for corn.

◆  Bayer CropScience LP and Monsanto entered into an exclusive agreement on the use of Poncho®/VOTiVOTM seed treatment.

◆  Bayer CropScience and Dow AgroSciences entered into cross-licensing agreements regarding cotton technologies.

◆  BASF and Monsanto announced an expansion of their joint efforts to develop higher-yielding and stress-tolerant crops to include a fifth crop, wheat.

◆  BASF Plant Science and KWS SAAT AG announced collaboration for the long-term project are developing sugar beet varieties for the global market with higher sugar and energy yields as well as greater drought tolerance.

◆  BASF signed an agreement with Meiji Seika Kaisha (Japan) for the co-development of an exciting new insecticide for the control of piercing and sucking insects, code named ME5343.

◆  Chromatin announced an extension of its research and commercial license agreement with Syngenta Biotechnology for corn and soybeans for Chromatin’s proprietary gene stacking technology.

◆  Cibus Global signed an agreement with Rotam CropSciences to provide crop protection herbicides for RTDS-developed canola in North America.

◆  Crop Microclimate Management and Certis entered into agreements to develop and market new abiotic (environmental) stress management products.

◆  Donald Danforth Plant Science Center entered into research collaboration with Dow AgroSciences to study how its EXZACT™ Precision Technology can help improve the root crop cassava for millions of people living in developing countries.

◆  Dow AgroSciences and Viamet Pharmaceuticals entered into a crop protection research, option and license agreement to evaluate the potential use of Metallophile Technology to develop novel agricultural chemicals with new modes of action.

◆  Dow AgroSciences entered into an exclusive commercial license agreement with Plant Bioscience Limited (PBL) for technology that enhances the root systems of plants with important implications for crop improvement.

◆  Dow AgroSciences and Syngenta announced the signing of an exclusive supply and distribution agreement under which Syngenta will assume responsibility for the supply and distribution of Dow AgroSciences crop protection products in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region.

to be continued……

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