Bayer makes offer to Monsanto to create largest German takeover
德國拜耳公司提議收購孟山都公司創德國最大收購案
German drug and crop chemicals group Bayer has offered to buy U.S. seed company Monsanto for $62 billion in cash, defying criticism from some of its own shareholders in a bid to grab the top spot in a fast-consolidating farm supplies industry. If accepted, the unsolicited proposal, which includes debt, would be the largest takeover by a German company.
德國藥品及農業化學公司拜耳提議一個收購案，計劃以620億美元現金收購美國種子公司孟山都。為了占領日益加速發展和整合的農業供應市場的高地，拜耳公司無視部分股東的反抗及批評。如果通過了這個提議，包括公司的債務，這將成為德國最大的企業收購案。
Monsanto, which said last week it had been approached by Bayer, gave no details and has yet to comment on the offer. Antitrust experts see an overlap in the seeds business, particularly in soybeans, cotton and canola. Bayer’s LibertyLink line of weed killers are an important alternative for farmers suffering from weeds that have grown resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. Global agrochemicals companies are racing to consolidate, partly in response to a drop in commodity prices that has hit farm incomes and because of the growing convergence between the seed and pesticide markets.
孟山都公司生成在上個周末已經會晤過拜耳公司，但是沒有透露任何詳細信息及相關評論。反壟斷專家看到了一些壟斷在種子市場，特別是在大豆，棉花和菜籽油方面。拜耳在除草劑方面的自由產業鏈提供給了農民其他的選擇以應對雜草對孟山都除草劑日益增強的抗藥性。全球的農化學品公司競相聯合起來，部分產品的價格下跌和日益聯合起來的種子和農藥產業使得農民的收入收到打擊。
