AGRO-CHEMICALS: APPROVAL GIVEN FOR BAYER-AVENTIS MERGER.(Brief Article)(Company Profile)

Europe Agri, April, 2002

Berlin-based Bayer AG is active in four business segments - healthcare, agricultural business, polymers and chemical business. Aventis Crop Science, with headquarters in Lyons, France, comprises four business segments - the crop protection business, the environmental science business, the seed business and the bioscience business.

The company was formed in 1999 as the combination of AgrEvo (the former Hoechst/Schering joint venture) and the Rh?ne-Poulenc agriculture division.The merger between Bayer and Aventis was announced at the beginning of October last year and notified for regulatory clearance on October 29. After the initial investigation by its Merger Task Force unearthed a number of serious competition concerns, the Commission decided to launch a...

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