28.05.2018
- Bayer has had to reduce its forecast for cost synergies relating to the Monsanto takeover, CEO Werner Baumann said at the German group’s annual general meeting on May 25. Synergies...
08.05.2018
- In what is being read as yet another sign that US approval of Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto is imminent, the German group has announced a reshuffle of executive positions in its...
17.04.2018
- For the global specialty chemicals sector, the past two years have been among the most exciting of the young millennium. Many mergers and acquisitions were in the spotlight in 2017...
07.02.2018
- Following the European Commission’s late-January extension of its lengthened probe into the planned Bayer-Monsanto merger, the German group said on Feb. 5 it had offered additional...
30.01.2018
- Bayer’s proposed acquisition of Monsanto faces another delay after European regulators extended their investigation by five days to Mar. 12. The European Commission has not given a...
11.01.2018
- As it works toward unloading all of its shareholding in its former plastics subsidiary Covestro – the former Bayer MaterialScience – the Bayer group said it has begun an...
08.01.2018
- The year just ended was marked by a flood of M&A activity also in the distribution sector. Leading the way, German giant Brenntag said it planned to acquire all shares of specialty...
08.01.2018
- On the pharmaceutical side, super-dimensioned M&A activity was somewhat more modest. Many of the deals were between players in the biochemicals segment or conventional drugmakers...
