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Company Structure/Ownership
Monsanto are 85% owned by Pharmacia (a
merger between Pharmacia/Upjohn and Monsanto). In the UK Monsanto
are represented by four companies, Monsanto UK Limited, Monsanto
PLC, Monsanto UK Services Company and Monsanto UK Holding Company.
Pharmacia (Majority share holder)
Pharmacia Corporation
100Route 206,
North Peapack,
New Jersey 07977
USA
Tel (001) 908-901-8000
Freephone (001) 888-768-5501
www.pnu.com
Monsanto Company (US parent group)
Monsanto Company
Creve Coeur Campus
800 North Lindbergh
St Louis
Missouri 63167
USA
www.monsanto.com/
www.farmsource.com
Share Value
Current share prices for Monsanto Company can be
found at
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MON
Shareholder Information
Monsanto Company are 85%
owned by Pharmacia Corporation. [8]
Annual Turnover
Monsanto’s Net sales for 2000
were $5.5 billion. [9]
Board Of Directors
[10]
Chairman of the Board
Frank V. AtLee III (60)
Retired president of American Cyanamid Company and former
president of Cyanamid International.
President and Chief
Executive Officer
Hendrik A. Verfaillie (55)
Involved with the old pre merger Monsanto Company since
1976. Director of the old Monsanto since 1999.
Director
Hakan Astrom (53)
Senior vice president, strategy and corporate affairs of
Pharmacia Corporation.
Director
Christopher J. Coughlin (48)
Executive vice president and chief financial officer of
Pharmacia Corporation. Formerly president of Nabisco
International.
Director
Michael (Mickey) Kantor (61)
Formerly US secretary of commerce (1996-1997) and US trade
representative (1993-1996). National Chairman for the
Clinton/Gore presidential campaign (1992). Currently a
partner in international law firm Mayer, Brown Platt and
Kantor. Also a director of Pharmacia International.
Director
Gwendolyn S. King (60)
President of Podium Prose, speaker’s bureau and
speechwriting service. Formerly senior vice president of
PECO Energy Company (1992-1998), Commissioner Social
Security Administration (1989-1992). Director of Lockheed
Martin Corporation and Marsh and McLennan Companies Inc.
Director
C. Steven McMillan (55)
President and chief executive officer of Sara Lee
Corporation (packaged goods company, brands include Sara
Lee, Douwe Egberts, Hillshire Farm, Hanes and Playtex).
Formerly president, chief operating officer and executive
vice president Sara Lee Corporation (1997-2000). Director
Sara Lee Corporation, Pharmacia Corporation and Dynegy Inc.
Director
William Parfet (54)
Chairman and chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc
(preclinical toxicology and clinical pharmaceutical testing
laboratory. Formerly president and chief executive officer
of Richard Allan Medical Industries (1993-1996). Also a
director of Pharmacia Corporation, CMS Energy Corporation,
Stryker Corporation and Sybron International.
Director
John S. Reed (62)
Retired chairman of Citigroup Inc (commercial bank and
financial services company) (1998-2000). Chairman and chief
executive officer Citicorp and Citibank (1984-1998). Also a
director of Philip Morris Companies Inc, and a Member of The
Business Council.
Monsanto UK Limited
[11]
Monsanto UK Limited are the public face
of Monsanto in the UK.
Registered offices
recorded with Companies House
Monsanto UK Limited Company No.04042051 Date incorporated:
27,07,2000
The Maris Centre
45 Hauxton Road
Trumpington
Cambridge
CB2 5HJ
Corporate and public
affairs office
Monsanto UK Limited
London, W1S 4JW
England
0207 495 8455
Research and
Development
Monsanto UK Limited (PBI)/ Monsanto Cambridge
Cambridge, CB2 2LQ
England
01223 849200
Board of Directors for Monsanto UK Limited
[12]
Company Secretary and
Director:
Colin Gerald Elwell
Director
Kenneth Matthew Barker
Director
Marc Rene Louisa de Smedt
Director
Luc Eduard Maria Leunis
Director
Kevin Walsh
Director:
Stephen Michael Wildridge,
Shareholders for Monsanto UK Ltd
100 shares issued, all owned by
Monsanto Company (US)
Monsanto PLC
[13]
Monsanto PLC are much harder to get to grips with than Monsanto UK
Ltd.
The only source of information on them
that Corporate Watch has accessed is their annual return at
Companies House which lists them as manufacturers of basic
Pharmaceutical products, fertilizers, nitrogen compounds and other
chemical products.
Registered offices
recorded with Companies House
Monsanto PLC Company No.3326109 Date incorporated:
28/02/1997
PO Box 53
Lane End Road
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP12 4HL
Board of Directors for Monsanto PLC
[14]
Company Secretary and
Director:
Philip Greenhalgh
Director
John Graham Lee
Shareholders for Monsanto PLC
[15]
7081424 shares issued
4 shares owned by Pharmacia Corporation
7081420 shares owned by Monsanto UK Holding Company (current
ownership of these shares is uncertain as Monsanto UK
Holding Company have been in voluntary liquidation since
25/04/01)
Monsanto UK Services
Company [16]
Again Monsanto UK Services Company are hard to get any information
on.
The only source of information on them
that Corporate Watch has accessed is their annual return at
Companies House which lists them as dealing with ‘other financial
intermediation’.
Registered offices
recorded with Companies House
Monsanto UK Services Company Company No.3107476 Date
incorporated: 22/09/1995
PO Box 53
Lane End Road
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP12 4HL
Board of Directors for
Monsanto UK Services Company
Company Secretary and Director:
Philip Greenhalgh
Director
Colin Gerald Elwell
Director
Guy Antoine Marie Kersch
Director
John Graham Lee
Shareholders for Monsanto UK Services Company
5000 shares issued
500 shares owned by Monsanto Columbia
4500 shares owned by Pharmacia Corporation
Monsanto UK Holding Company
[17]
Monsanto UK Holding Company is in voluntary liquidation as of
25/04/01.
Registered offices
recorded with Companies House
Monsanto UK Holding Company Company No.3326109 Date
incorporated: 28/02/1997
C/O KPMG
Aquis Court,
31 Fishpool Street,
St Albans,
Hertfordshire
AL3 4RF
Monsanto Europe
Monsanto’s European Headquarters are in Brussels.
Monsanto
Europe/Services International
Avenue de Tervuren 270-272
Brussels, Belgium 1150
Phone: 32-2-776-4111
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Subsidiaries
Unless
otherwise stated the following companies have either been bought out
and subsumed by Monsanto Company or are wholly owned subsidiaries of
Monsanto Company. [18]
Agracetus
www.agracetus.com
US based genomics and biotechnology company, held broad patents
on a range of major crops including GM soya and cotton.
Asgrow
www.asgrow.com
Acquired by Monsanto in 1997. [19] US seed
production and marketing company specializing in research into
soya, maize and sorghum. Acquired to develop sales of Monsanto's
seeds especially Roundup Ready soybeans
Calgene
Acquired by Monsanto in 1997.
[20] US based biotechnology company, conducting
research into GM colored, herbicide tolerant and insect
resistant cotton, GM high lauric acid oil seed rape and GM
flavor/ shelf life improved tomatoes and strawberries. Marketed
the failed Flavr Savr Tomato.
Cargill’s International Seed Division
In 1998 Monsanto acquires
Cargill’s international seed operations in central and south
America, Asia, Africa and Europe (excluding the UK).
[21]
Markets maize, sunflower, rapeseed, soya, alfalfa, sorghum,
wheat and rice seed. Monsanto paid US$1.4 billion for Cargill
seeds as part of its strategy to quickly spread the use of its
GM seed worldwide.
DeKalb Genetics
www.dekalb.com
A US based plant genetics company acquired for US$ 2.3 billion.
in 1998. [22] 2nd largest seed company in the US and 2nd largest
maize seed company in the world.
First Line Seed
www.soybeans.com
Acquired by Monsanto in 1998. [23] US company
mainly selling soybeans. Produces Roundup Ready varieties. Main
co-operative partnership is with Asgrow. Monsanto Canada owns a
major equity stake in First Line Seed.
EID Parry
An Indian cotton seed
producer. [24]
Holden’s Foundation Seeds
Acquired by Monsanto in 1997
for US$1 billion. [25] A maize genetics
business that claims a third of the US seed corn market.
MAHYCO
www.mahyco.com
India's largest private seed company which enjoys 9% of India’s
national seed market and has substantial market shares
throughout South Asia. Monsanto India owns 26% of Mahyco. There
is a joint venture between Monsanto and Mahyco (50/50) called
Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMB).
This company is attempting to
commercially launch Bollgard cotton in India.
Monsoy
Acquired in 1996 [26]. The
largest soybean suppliers in Brazil.
Plant Breeding International Cambridge
Limited
A UK based plant breeding and
research institute originally publicly owned and then owned by
Unilever prior to its purchase by Monsanto in 1998.[27]
Owns a vast collection of grass species and varieties, with
numerous breeding programs including potatoes, barley, winter
wheat and oil seed rape.
Sementes Agroceres
Acquired by Monsanto in 1997.
[28] A Brazilian seed company with a 30% share in the
Brazilian maize seed market.
Joint Ventures
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Renessen LLC
www.renessen.com
A 50/50 joint venture between Monsanto and Cargill [29]
to
manufacture and distribute second generation ‘functional
food’ GM crops.
The venture with Cargill
bringing together Cargill's global marketing, processing and
risk management empire and Monsanto's expertise in
developing GM crops. Renessen LLC will initially develop and
market GM products for the grain processing and animal feed
markets, including GM maize, soybeans and wheat products
with altered nutritional properties for use in animal feed.
Other GM products in the
pipeline are oil seeds and wheat varieties with altered
processing properties.
-
ConAgra
www.conagra.com/basic_foods.jsp
An international grain dealer and food processor. Monsanto
made agreements with them in June 1999 to segregate and ship
GM grain to countries which will accept these crops. This
was set up in response to the anti-GM political situation in
the EU.
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Monsanto has two GM forestry
projects. (information from Feeding the Hungry
Transnationals)
-
Announced in 1999 this
$60million R&D project over 5 years is with the US based
companies:
Focusing on eucalyptus, poplar,
pine and sweet-gum species the venture hopes to develop
traits such as herbicide tolerance, higher growth rates and
a more uniform fibre quality. All these developments mainly
focus around the paper industry.
-
Established in 1996 Monfori
Nusantra is a venture being carried out with ForBio an
Australian plant Biotechnology company. They are trialing
fast growing trees such as teak, acacia, mangium and
eucalyptus, to be used in the pulp/paper industry. The
trials are taking place in Indonesia.
Monsanto and water
Prior to the merger with Pharmacia,
Monsanto was making plans to launch a new water business, starting
in India and Mexico since both these countries are facing water
shortages.
It is uncertain whether this business is
being pursued by the new Monsanto. As part of its efforts to enter
the water business, Monsanto has stake in WaterHealth International
(WHI) with an option to buy the rest of the business.
WaterHealth International has a patent
on a water purification technology that uses UV light to kill
practically all water-borne bacteria and viruses. [30]
[8]
www.monsanto.co.uk/monsantouk/monsantouk.html [9]
www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MON&script=700&layout=7
[10] information from Monsanto Annual Report 2000 available
online at
www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MON&script=700&layout=7
information accurate on 1/3/2001 [11] Information from Companies House and
www.monsanto.co.uk/
[12] Information from Companies House, Monsanto UK Ltd
Annual Return, 11/07/01 [13] Information from Companies House annual return 02/02/01
[14] Information from Companies House, Monsanto PLC Annual
Return, 02/02/01 [15] Information from Companies House, Monsanto PLC Annual
Return, 02/02/01 [16] Information from Companies House, annual return
21/08/01 [17] Information from Companies House, Monsanto UK Holding
Company List of Current Appointments 17/09/01 [18] Information from Feeding the Hungry Multinationals and
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/about_us/company_timeline/index6.html
[19]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/97/97dec10_agreement.html
[20]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/97/97apr1_calgene.html
[21]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/98/98jun29_Cargill.html
[22]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/98/98dec7_Dekalb.html
[23]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/98/98jun1_Firstline.html
[24]
www.transnationale.org/anglais/fiches/194938047.htm
[25]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/97/97jan6_corn.html
[26]
www.monsanto.com.br/agricultura/semente/soja/monsoy/tefranquia.htm
[27]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/98/98jul15_PBIC.html
[28]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/97/97nov24_brazilian.html
[29]
www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/98/98may14_cargill.html
[30] For further information
www.afd-online.org/wto/monsanto-monopoly-seeds2water.htm
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