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23 mei 2016, 07:18

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23 mei 2016, 07:41

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Creating a Global Leader in Agriculture

Bayer announced that it has made an all-cash offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Monsanto for US$122 per share or an aggregate enterprise value of US$62 billion.

This transaction would create a leading integrated agriculture platform with a broad product portfolio. The combined business would benefit from a combined R&D pipeline that would deliver valuable and innovative solutions for farmers, with a focus on long-term investments to help advance the next generation of farming.

Compelling Strategic Rationale

The agriculture industry is at the heart of one of the greatest challenges of our time: how to feed an additional 3 billion people in the world by 2050. This number represents about six times the population of Europe today.

At Bayer, we are passionate about tackling large societal challenges through innovation, science and with responsibility.

It is our core capability to develop innovative businesses in the Life Sciences and turn them into leaders, creating superior value for our shareholders, employees and society at large.

The planned combination with Monsanto is such an extraordinary opportunity to create a global leader in the agricultural industry.

Monsanto is a perfect match to our agricultural business. We would combine complementary skills with minimal geographic overlap:

We at Bayer have a leading position in Crop Protection.
Monsanto is extremely strong in Seeds & Traits.
So jointly we would be an innovation powerhouse to address farmers’ future needs.
This is particularly exciting in advancing Digital Farming.

The proposed acquisition of Monsanto is strategically compelling and completely logical. It would create value for shareholders, customers and employees of both companies alike.

Our all-cash offer is compelling for Monsanto’s shareholders and represents a premium of 37 percent to the unaffected share price. We also expect to create significant synergies and be earnings accretive in the first full year after completion closing. We have a proven track record of integrating businesses and achieving the synergy and value targets we set ourselves.

At the same time we believe that we would be excellent owners of the Monsanto business. Bayer has a well-deserved reputation of acting with the utmost responsibility.

We would use our joint innovative capabilities to ensure that farmers can optimize their harvests without compromising the environment.
This is what the name Bayer and all of our more than 100,000 employees around the world stand for – Science For A Better Life.

Creating Value for All

The acquisition of Monsanto would be a compelling opportunity to create a global agriculture leader, while reinforcing Bayer as a Life Science company with a leadership position in a long-term growth industry. We believe the transaction would be compelling for both Monsanto and Bayer shareholders. For our farmers and employees there would be significant benefits as we work together to advance the next generation of farming.
Innovative Solutions for Farmers

Our proposed combination with Monsanto would create a truly global agriculture leader with a broad portfolio, providing a superior product offering and tailor-made solutions to farmers across all crops in all geographies. We would bring together Monsanto’s leadership in Seeds & Traits with our leadership in our broad Crop Protection portfolio across a comprehensive range of indications and crops, and further develop our Digital Farming capabilities.

The opportunities and challenges driving the global agricultural community are complex and ever-changing. We believe the future growth of the agriculture industry will be driven by R&D aimed at finding more innovative solutions for farmers as they seek to optimize their harvests, while operating within a number of resource and climate related constraints.

By combining both companies’ commitment to quality and passion for innovation, we would be able to create a highly-integrated product offering and a best-in-class R&D for our customers worldwide, enhancing our ability to help farmers tackle the challenges they face – for example, through:

The advancement of our Digital Farming capabilities which will help farmers to improve optimization of inputs with corresponding improvement in yields
A longer-term focus on entirely new solutions across Seeds, Traits and Crop Protection which would be designed to help the next generation of farmers succeed.

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Value Creation for Shareholders

Our all-cash offer is US$122 per share or an aggregate value of US$62 billion for all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Monsanto. Bayer believes this all-cash offer presents Monsanto shareholders the best opportunity to maximize the full value of their shares immediately, with certainty. Our offer represents:

A premium of 37% over the closing share price on May 9, 2016
A premium of 36% over the three-month volume weighted average share price
A premium of 33% over the six-month volume weighted average share price
A last twelve months EBITDA multiple of 15.8x as of February 29, 2016

For Bayer shareholders the transaction offers significant synergy potential and is expected to provide them with core EPS accretion by a mid-single-digit percentage in the first full year after closing and a double-digit percentage thereafter. Initially, we expect annual earnings contributions from total synergies of approximately US$ 1.5 billion after year three plus additional integrated offer benefits in future years.

The combined agriculture business would benefit from attractive growth prospects across key crops, divisions and geographies combined with the new revenue pool derived from emerging field of Digital Farming. With leading positions in key industry segments, the combination could result in multiple expansion for the combined group as the business would be able to command a premium valuation for the combined Ag business.

The combined Group’s businesses would have sufficient size, scale and diversification to effectively enhance growth prospects across Agriculture, as well as Life Sciences.
Opportunities for Employees

This transaction is driven by growth and long-term investment in the next generation of farming and the combined company would provide attractive opportunities for employees of both companies.

Under the proposed transaction the combined business would have its global Seeds & Traits and North American commercial headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., its global Crop Protection and divisional Crop Science headquarters in Monheim, Germany, and an important presence in Durham, North Carolina, U.S. as well as many other locations throughout the U.S. and around the world. Digital Farming for the combined business would be based near San Francisco, California, U.S.

Bayer’s approach to integrating the two businesses will follow a best-in-class approach with focused implementation drawing on resources from both entities. The guiding principle will be our long-standing commitment to deliver secure and attractive workplaces.

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Zeus

23 mei 2016, 09:08

Zal het Duitse Bayer het Amerikaanse Monsanto overnemen?

Bayer biedt 62 miljard dollar op Monsanto
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/942/Economie/article/detail/2711965/2016/05/23/Bayer-biedt-62-miljard-dollar-op-Monsanto.dhtml

Een overname zou leiden tot 's werelds grootste producent van landbouwchemicaliën en zaden.

Bayer dat samensmelt met Monsanto, dan denk ik aan een monopoliepositie, 'too big to fail'-construties en mogelijks belangenverstrengeling.

Zal chemiereus Bayer uiteindelijk Monsanto kunnen kopen voor 62 miljard dollar? Ik betwijfel het ten zeerste.

Heeft iemand hier een duidelijk zicht op de gevolgen van zo'n operatie?

Dat is een zaak voor het USDJ, de FTD en de Europese Commissie.

Van een monopoliepositie m.i is geen sprake. Bayer is vooral actief in gewasbescherming, Monsanto in de zaden voor de gewassen zelf. Bayer zal dus producten kunnen leveren voor de hele keten. Mogelijk zullen ze van de mededingingsautoriteiten wel wat activiteiten moeten afstoten waar ze door overlap te dominant worden.

Terzijde, ik heb nooit de fascinatie voor Monsanto begrepen. Bedrijven als DuPont of DowChem waren even grote producenten van napalm, agent orange en ander vergif.

zonbron

23 mei 2016, 10:22

Dat is een zaak voor het USDJ, de FTD en de Europese Commissie.

Van een monopoliepositie m.i is geen sprake. Bayer is vooral actief in gewasbescherming, Monsanto in de zaden voor de gewassen zelf. Bayer zal dus producten kunnen leveren voor de hele keten. Mogelijk zullen ze van de mededingingsautoriteiten wel wat activiteiten moeten afstoten waar ze door overlap te dominant worden.

Terzijde, ik heb nooit de fascinatie voor Monsanto begrepen. Bedrijven als DuPont of DowChem waren even grote producenten van napalm, agent orange en ander vergif.

Dupont werkt op heel wat gebieden samen met Monsanto en zijn me welbekend hoor.

droge humor kassa404

23 mei 2016, 18:56

Glyfosaat is nochtans een product van Monsanto, niet van Bayer.

Eduard Khil

23 mei 2016, 20:21

goed zo! Een zo'n grote mastodont zal beter in staat zijn die kleine protesterende boeren in arme landen onder controle te houden. Dat is goed voor de consument en de wereldvrede

Eduard Khil

23 mei 2016, 20:21

bovendien zal bayer er nu wel voor zorgen dat in de EU roundup toegelaten blijft. Dat is goed voor mij, dan kan ik mijn onkruid rustig dood blijven sproeien

zonbron

23 mei 2016, 20:28

bovendien zal bayer er nu wel voor zorgen dat in de EU roundup toegelaten blijft. Dat is goed voor mij, dan kan ik mijn onkruid rustig dood blijven sproeien

idd.

Pandareus

23 mei 2016, 20:30

bovendien zal bayer er nu wel voor zorgen dat in de EU roundup toegelaten blijft. Dat is goed voor mij, dan kan ik mijn onkruid rustig dood blijven sproeien

Ik heb nog een paar honderd liter in mijn kelder opgeslagen, genoeg voor elk stuk onkruid in de komende decennia kapot te maken. Ordnung muss sein !

Eduard Khil

23 mei 2016, 20:37

Ik heb nog een paar honderd liter in mijn kelder opgeslagen, genoeg voor elk stuk onkruid in de komende decennia kapot te maken. Ordnung muss sein !

naast de voorraad zyclon B zeker, altijd klaar voor de volgende ronde, gelijk sossenvriend Adolf :lol:

zonbron

23 mei 2016, 21:00

naast de voorraad zyclon B zeker, altijd klaar voor de volgende ronde, gelijk sossenvriend Adolf :lol:

Hij mengt meer dan waarschijnlijk homeopatische dosissen Roundup in zijn badwater, daar sta je na enkele weekjes kloek van.

Boduo

24 mei 2016, 12:23

Reverberation

24 mei 2016, 19:10

https://www.rt.com/usa/344239-monsanto-bayer-bid-reject/

Monsanto rejects $62bn bid from Bayer

Nazi bod geweigerd...voorlopig.

Monsanto can “see the logic” of combining with the German corporation, and believes the merger could get the required approval from regulators, sources familiar with the talks told Reuters. However, the St. Louis, Missouri-based company believes its shareholders deserve a better offer.

kelt

28 mei 2016, 10:44

De mogelijke kosten zijn van die omvang dat men zich kan afvragen of Bayer nog veel focus op zijn medische activiteiten wil houden....

Uiteraard zullen de Monsanto-aandeelhouders nu proberen uit te vissen hoeveel ze ECHT kunnen vangen....

Zwitser

28 mei 2016, 14:36

Glyfosaat is nochtans een product van Monsanto, niet van Bayer.

Het patent op Glyfosaat is al een poos verlopen. Het meest komt tegenwoordig uit China...

zonbron

28 mei 2016, 18:55

Het patent op Glyfosaat is al een poos verlopen. Het meest komt tegenwoordig uit China...

Dat verbaast me niet, maar bedankt voor de info!

djimi

28 mei 2016, 20:30

Dat is een zaak voor het USDJ, de FTD en de Europese Commissie...

Hebben wij effe geluk zeg, dat we die zomaar blindelings kunnen vertrouwen!

:roll: