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...Eight years after the ill-fated $63bn Monsanto deal, which his predecessor Werner Baumann pushed through despite major shareholder opposition, Anderson is tasked with a near-impossible mission: resurrecting...
...Investors have sent the company’s shares to their lowest level in 19 years following Anderson’s decision to ditch immediate break-up plans for the company on Tuesday....
...Anderson vowed to overcome the company’s four issues over the next 24 to 36 months, aiming to axe €2bn in annual costs by 2026 by cutting internal bureaucracy....
...These are largely, but not exclusively, a legacy of its $63bn acquisition of US crops company Monsanto in 2016....
...The company had almost €39bn in net financial debt at the end of September. Bayer’s woes have not been confined to the fallout from the Monsanto transaction....
...Still, Bill Anderson, Bayer’s chief executive, has his work cut out. The German conglomerate continues to nurse a giant hangover from its disastrous $63bn takeover of Monsanto agreed in 2016....
...Incoming chief executive Bill Anderson said he would review all options for the company, including a break-up. The company said it had no plans to move its listing. Olaf Storbeck 9....
...Bayer’s 2018 acquisition of US crop science company Monsanto is the takeover that just keeps on taking. This week’s €2.5bn impairment charge adds to already extensive financial damage....
...The company is suffering from a sprawling multibillion litigation over its weedkiller glyphosate in the US, which it acquired in its controversial 2016 acquisition of US rival Monsanto and which former users...
...Despite that, the company has taken steps to end the protracted crisis over Roundup, which Bayer acquired as part of its ill-fated $63bn acquisition of US crop sciences business Monsanto in 2016....
...Monsanto....
...The deal increased the company’s debt and exposed it to sprawling litigation risks over Monsanto’s weedkiller Glyphosate, which is alleged to cause cancer....
...The transport companies were so busy moving art, they ran out of trucks.” If Germany wants this art back, “the law should be scrapped,” says Blau....
...The abandoned trial and the court loss compound the challenges facing Anderson, who recently said the conglomerate’s performance was “not acceptable” as it struggled to revive its fortunes after the Monsanto...
...The company is still reeling from its ill-fated $63bn takeover of the US seeds maker Monsanto in 2016....
...Bayer’s portfolio through the German group’s 2016 acquisition of Monsanto, for their cancer....
...Bayer has lost a lot of ground since its disastrous 2018 acquisition of Monsanto. Bill Anderson, who became chief executive in June, describes it as bogged down in litigation, bureaucracy and debt....
...His successor Anderson, who previously oversaw the pharma business of Swiss rival Roche, praised the industrial logic of the Monsanto acquisition....
...Chief executive Bill Anderson, who has already announced a restructuring aimed at cutting jobs and bureaucracy, will set out his strategy to investors....
...The company has been reeling from the billions in debt it took on to acquire Monsanto and the mounting costs around the crop company’s weedkiller glyphosate litigation cases....
...The outgoing CEO “will work closely with Bill Anderson to ensure a smooth transition process before retiring from Bayer end of May 2023,” the company said, adding that the appointment was the result of a...
...The outgoing chief executive “will work closely with Bill Anderson to ensure a smooth transition process before retiring from Bayer at the end of May 2023”, the company said....
...Bayer said it was aware of Bluebell’s letter and presentation and was “always open for a constructive dialogue”, adding that Anderson was currently familiarising himself with the company and, together with...
...However, Anderson stressed he had not yet made up his mind about a potential break-up....
...Baumann, who will be succeeded in June by former Roche executive Bill Anderson, said “this is quite a problem for all companies. Every company can be hit.”...
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