Oxnard-based Seminis Inc., the world’s largest seller of commercial fruit and vegetable seeds, said Friday that it would be bought out and taken private by units of Mexican agricultural firm Savia and ...

Monsanto paid $1 billion in cash and assumed about $400 million in debt to buy California based Seminis and will make a payment of up to $125 million by the end of fiscal 2007, based on financial ...

Seeds are in; pesticides are out. That’s the mantra at agribusiness giant Monsanto Co., which said Monday that it planned to purchase Oxnard-based seed company Seminis Inc. for $1 billion. Monsanto, ...

Agribusiness Monsanto Co. said Monday it will buy vegetable and fruit seed company Seminis Inc. for about $1 billion in cash, looking to capitalize on the trend of healthier diets while further ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Monsanto on Monday moved to capitalise on a growing trend towards healthier diets by buying California-based ...

MONSANTO, the world leader in genetically modified (GM) grains and oilseeds, is buying a second blade for its plough: California-based Seminis, the leader in vegetable seeds. Seminis made a small loss ...

USA: Monsanto to buy seed company Seminis US biotech giant Monsanto has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire fruit and vegetable seed company Seminis for US$1.4bn in cash and ...

Monsanto Co., looking for places to grow after converting many of America's corn, soybean and cotton farms to biotechnology, agreed to buy Seminis Inc. for $1 billion in order to expand its sights to ...

PLANT breeding company Seminis officially opened its $2 million onion breeding facility in Pukekohe, New Zealand, last month.

Goldberg, Ray A., Jonathan West, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and David Benedict Pearcy. "Seminis Inc." Harvard Business School Case 600-030, November 1999.