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Bayer’s cross symbol hangs in a terminal at Frankfurt International Airport. (Typhoonski/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Activist investor reported building stake in Bayer, seeking breakup

Bayer up for 'constructive dialogue'

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 10, 2023

Reuters — Activist investor Bluebell Capital Partners has built a stake in Bayer AG and is pushing for a breakup of the German pharmaceutical and agriculture company, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing sources. U.K.-based Bluebell is also seeking an overhaul of Bayer’s corporate governance, the report added. A Bayer spokesperson, who declined to comment on

Markets, News

Weedkiller windfall helps Bayer top profit forecasts

By Ludwig Burger November 21, 2022

Reuters – Bayer has reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings as a temporary price boost for its glyphosate-based herbicides made up for a decline in sales of its stroke prevention pill Xarelto. The German company said third-quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose 17.3 per cent to US$2.45 billion, above analysts’ average estimate

Markets, Other

Bayer’s agriculture unit, consumer health drive outlook hike

By GFM Network News, Ludwig Burger August 4, 2022

Frankfurt | Reuters – Agriculture and pharmaceuticals company Bayer BAYGn.DE on Thursday lifted its 2022 earnings guidance on strong demand from farmers for its seeds and crop chemicals and higher sales of consumer health products. Bayer is now targeting earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), adjusted for special items, of about 13 billion

BASF’s dicamba production facility in Beaumont, Tex. (BASF.com)

Crops

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

By Brendan Pierson, GFM Network News July 7, 2022

Reuters — Bayer and BASF have won a new trial on US$60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, drifted onto his orchard and harmed his crops. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a federal jury was wrongly told

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, June 27, 2022. Photo: Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz

U.S. Supreme Court again nixes Bayer challenge to weedkiller suits

By GFM Network News June 27, 2022

Washington | Reuters – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected another Bayer AG BAYGn.DE bid to dismiss litigation alleging that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer as the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant tries to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned away a Bayer appeal and left in place a lower

Crops

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Bayer bid to toss Roundup suits

By GFM Network News, Lawrence Hurley June 21, 2022

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Bayer’s bid to dismiss legal claims by customers who contend its Roundup herbicide causes cancer as the German company seeks to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned away a Bayer appeal and left in place a lower court decision that

File photo of growing corn plants. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather

Bayer rolling out short corn variety tolerant of weather extremes

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume February 18, 2022

Reuters — Global farm chemicals and seeds maker Bayer will launch a corn variety in the United States next year that it says will better tolerate heavy winds associated with climate change, estimating future sales in North America as high as one billion euros. The corn, which grows one-third shorter than current varieties, will be

Crops

Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says

Company provides heads-up on 'force majeure event'

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 14, 2022

No one is yet using the word ‘shortage’ but farmers may need to get ready for less Roundup temporarily, following a “force majeure” event at a plant supplying an ingredient in the recipe for glyphosate. Bayer, the chemical company whose Roundup brand remains the best known of the glyphosate herbicides, reported as much in an

File photo of a dicamba-damaged soybean plant. (Reuters)

Crops, Weather

U.S. EPA reviewing dicamba over crop damage claims

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek December 21, 2021

Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is assessing whether dicamba herbicide can be sprayed safely on soybean and cotton plants genetically engineered to resist the chemical, without the procedure posing “unreasonable risks” to other crops, an agency official said Tuesday. Farmers and scientists for years have reported problems with dicamba drifting away

Crops

Supreme Court asks U.S. government for views on Roundup case

By GFM Network News, Lawrence Hurley, Ludwig Burger December 13, 2021

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked President Joe Biden’s administration for its views on whether the justices should hear Bayer’s bid to dismiss claims by customers who contend its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, as the company seeks to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. Bayer in August filed a

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives Bayer

Activist investor reported building stake in Bayer, seeking breakup

Weedkiller windfall helps Bayer top profit forecasts

Bayer’s agriculture unit, consumer health drive outlook hike

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

U.S. Supreme Court again nixes Bayer challenge to weedkiller suits

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Bayer bid to toss Roundup suits

Bayer rolling out short corn variety tolerant of weather extremes

Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says

U.S. EPA reviewing dicamba over crop damage claims

Supreme Court asks U.S. government for views on Roundup case

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