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24.01.2005 | permalink
Monsanto buys world leading vegetable seed company Seminis
Monsanto Co., the world`s biggest developer of genetically engineered crops, agreed to buy Seminis Inc. for $1,4 billion in cash from Fox Paine & Co. and minority investors to gain the largest maker of vegetable and fruit seeds.</p><p><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-24-2005/0002898303&EDATE=">Seminis: Seminis Reaches Definitive Agreement with Monsanto</a>l<a href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aQVaTVsItbBA&refer=home">Bloomberg: Monsanto buys Seminis</a></p><p><a href="http://saveourseeds.org/downloads/monsanto_seminis_25_01_04.pdf">Background on the takeover from various sources</a>