v3 Chapter 1430： Global seed industry leader

After taking the stake in the Andres family, Polaris Capital has a 90.3% stake in ADM.

In the face of this shareholding ratio, other small shareholders have no room for resistance.

Faced with the acquisition issued by Polaris Capital, they all accepted it with interest.

In just two days, all the remaining 9.7% equity was acquired, and Polaris Capital completed its 100% control of ADM.

It cost a total of 1.584.25 million U.S. dollars.

This is an international large-scale trading giant with total assets of US$4.579 billion and net assets of US$2.005 billion.

After completing the acquisition, Xia Yu began to solve other hidden dangers and fulfilled the agreement by the way.

The first is the FBI. The charge was placed on an employee. Darnell Andres was taken out. After the procedure was completed, he would be fined at most with a small fine.

Of course, the benefits gained from manipulating food prices have entered ADM's pockets after all, so in the end ADM will be fined, but the fines will definitely be kept to a minimum.

More importantly, if I was punished this time, all the previous crimes will be settled. For ADM, it is a good thing to eliminate huge hidden dangers, lest it will be targeted by a consortium of the same size in the future. of.

The Ministry of Agriculture and the General Administration of Customs have also completed a comprehensive inspection of all imported 200,000 tons of Brazilian soybeans. No problems were found and they were approved for entry.

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"Chairman, this is the latest work report from Swire Agriculture Group."

In Hong Kong Kowloon, Huo Jianning entered Xia Yu's office and took the report submitted below.

After Xia Yu took it, he scanned it carefully, then picked up the pen and wrote on it for a few minutes.

Then he pushed it to Huo Jianning again, and said with a faint smile: "Jianning, follow my instructions and let Swire Agriculture Group make some adjustments."

"The U.S. has already acquired ADM, and we can reach a strategic cooperation with that. ADM can't help much with rice, but for crops such as oil crops, corn and wheat, ADM is much stronger than Taikoo Agricultural Group. After the cooperation is reached, many detours can be avoided."

"Now Taikoo Agriculture Group can take a step further, and be bolder."

Huo Jianning picked up the materials, glanced at it, and nodded in response: "Understand, I will convey your meaning."

Xia Yu nodded slightly and suddenly asked, "By the way, where did you collect the information on the global seed field that you collected here?"

"Chairman, the various regions have already submitted the materials, and the secretariat is still refining and integrating these materials, and they will definitely be available tomorrow."

Huo Jianning had already understood the situation before he came, so the answers were flowing at this time.

"Okay, let's talk about it tomorrow."

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The next day, the weather was relatively poor and Xiangjiang was enveloped by heavy rain.

Xia Yu didn't go out at all, and let someone deliver the integrated information to his home.

Using the space of funny baby, he read these materials.

In fact, Swire Agricultural Group and ADM not only operate the cultivation and sales of agricultural and sideline products, but also have seed breeding departments.

After all, these two companies have been in these fields for seven to eighty years or even hundreds of years. As long as the operators do not have a brain, they will improve the industrial chain layout.

but!

After all, Swire Agricultural Group and ADM are not professional seed companies. The two companies may be top-notch in a certain variety, but they cannot be top-notch in seed breeding and improvement of all crops.

Therefore, we can only purchase seeds from the top seed companies in the world to ensure sufficient competitiveness.

Currently.

The world's largest seed company is the American Pioneer Seed Company, which was founded in 1926 by Henry Wallett, the father of American corn hybrids.

After 60 years of development, Pioneer Seed Company has developed into the world's largest hybrid corn seed development and sales company. Its global corn seed planting area has reached nearly 300 million mu, accounting for 22% of the global corn planting area. In the global seed market, Pioneer Seed's hybrid corn seed share reached 43%.

In addition to corn seeds, Pioneer Seeds also sells large amounts of soybeans, sorghum, sunflower, and alfalfa seeds. Among them, soybean seeds account for one-quarter of the US market and sorghum seeds account for one-sixth.

For this company, Xia Yu knew that before the millennium, later generations were acquired by the DuPont consortium for $7.7 billion and merged into DuPont, which caused a huge sensation at the time.

The second place is Monsanto, the notorious company of later generations. This company attaches great importance to the research and development and cultivation of genetically modified seeds, and ranks first in the world in terms of seed genetically modified technology.

Monsanto’s seed business mainly consists of cotton, soybean and corn seeds, and is the main competitor of Pioneer Seed in the US market.

In later generations, Monsanto was acquired by the German Bayer company. The transaction amount felt to be 63 billion US dollars, which is definitely a sky-high price!

The third place in the world is the Limagrain Seed Company in France. This company was founded in 1942 and is mainly engaged in the field of vegetable seeds. It is currently the world's number one vegetable seed company.

The fourth largest in the world is Novartis, a pharmaceutical giant in Switzerland. They also have strong strength in the seed field, and their main business is also vegetable seeds.

The world's fifth largest seed company is St. Niss, Mexico's largest seed company. The company's main seed business is fruit and vegetable seeds, of which vegetable seeds account for one-fifth of the world market.

In addition to these companies.

Swedish Astra Company, British Zelican Company, Royal Dutch Van der Haaf Group, American Selling Kegen Company, Cargill Company, French Louis Dreyfus Company, Danish Seed Company, American Great Lakes Seed Company, Bunge Company, West Germany Internationally renowned seed companies, such as Bayer and Delta Seed, have all collected information.

As for the later generations of seed giants such as Swiss Syngenta, Edvarta, Dow Chemical Company, and German BASF, they all evolved after the merger of these companies.

Now the global seed market, like the bulk trade market, is still in a state of healthy competition and development, and has not entered the stage of malicious mergers and acquisitions.

For this reason, there are still many players in the seed market around the world, and there is also a lot of room for acquisition options.

but!

In fact, if you want to create a global seed hegemon and completely reinforce the agricultural bulk trade industrial chain, the range of options is really small.

Needless to say, Pioneer Seed Company, the world's No. 1 seed company, although it has a great reputation, its seed sales last year was less than 700 million U.S. dollars!

With Xia Yu's strength, eating it is like sprinkling water.

Secondly, Monsanto, the overlord of genetically modified technology, cannot be spared. The company's turnover in the seed field last year was only 577 million U.S. dollars.

Genetically modified agricultural technology is the mainstream trend of American agriculture in the future. It cannot be avoided. Holding it is holding the development artery of the industry.

More importantly, instead of allowing Monsanto to harm the mainland in the hands of others, it is better to be caught in his hands to harm other countries so as not to harm the mainland.

As long as Pioneer Seed Corporation and Monsanto Corporation win, both soybeans and corn will occupy more than half of the world market, and they will firmly occupy the dominant position.

And it can also fully enter the industry's first-class camp on the seeds of cotton, wheat, sorghum, sunflower, linseed and other crops.

Then there is the Delta Seed Company of the United States, the world's largest cotton seed company, and it will also take the three companies together, and the cotton seed market can also occupy more than half of the world.

Xia Yu finally focused on Limagrain in France and Saint Nis Seed in Mexico.

These two are the giants of vegetables and melon seeds, one in the world and the other in the world. As long as the two are taken and merged together, they will be firmly established in the field of vegetables and melon seeds. Hegemony, far surpassing Swiss Novartis.

It is not that Xia Yu looks down on Novartis, but it is unlikely that this company will be acquired, even if it is only a seed business.

After all, Swiss Novartis is a global pharmaceutical giant, and its seed business is just a small part of it. Swiss Novartis is also controlled by a European consortium and is one of the leading companies in the European pharmaceutical field. Where can it be acquired so easily?

Therefore, Xia Yu can only retreat and choose Mexico's Sannis Seed Company.

But this is also good. The French company Limagrain and the Mexican company Saint Niss are located on two continents, and there is not much overlap in the business area. If they can be merged, the reinforcement effect will be better.

As long as these five companies can be acquired, and the seed businesses of ADM and Swire Agricultural Group can be divested and merged, then it is absolutely possible to create a global seed hegemon with no shortcomings.

Don't hesitate, the very generous Xia Yu immediately gave instructions to let the Polaris Consortium and the Bright Consortium act separately.

The Polaris Consortium is responsible for the acquisition of American Pioneer Seed Company, Monsanto Company and American Delta Seed Company. These three companies are all located in the United States. With the energy of the Polaris Consortium, the acquisition is easier and quicker.

The Bright Consortium is responsible for the acquisition of Limagrain in France and Saint Nis Seed in Mexico.

The acquisition is progressing smoothly as Xia Yu expected.

In the absence of other competitors, the money cleared the way, and it was not used for a month, and all five seed companies were acquired. UU reading

The cumulative cost is 3.27 billion US dollars.

After the five companies were acquired, Swire Agricultural Group and ADM also divested their seed business and merged directly into a seed company.

Xia Yu named it-Earth Agriculture Group.

Once the news was announced, the global agricultural market was shaken, and the major seed companies were all scared to death.

Almost every seed company’s boss has the idea of ​​merging in his mind, because with their current strength, they simply cannot compete head-on with the Earth Agriculture Group.

It is foreseeable that in the next few years, the global seed field will usher in tremendous changes.

But no matter what, Xia Yu took the lead. Even if these seed companies merge with each other, it is unlikely that they want to merge into a giant of the same size. It is very likely to form a pattern of one super and multiple powers.

However, the next thing, his own shrewd subordinates will deal with it, he is only responsible for the top-level strategy...