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THE MAJOR PHASES
OF DEVELOPMENT
1998
Vegetable seeds
❚
Nickerson Zwaan
(Netherlands)
1996
Vegetable seeds
❚
Clause
(France)
❚
Harris Moran
(United States)
2000
Vegetable seeds
❚
Kyowa
(Japan)
Vegetable seeds
❚
Keygene
(Netherlands),
experts in genomics*
applied to vegetable
plants
2006
Vegetable seeds
❚
Mikado
(Japan)
2010
Vegetable seeds
❚
Mesa Maize
(United States)
❚
Su Tarim
(Turkey)
Field seeds
❚
Arcadia Biosciences
(United States)
2003
Vegetable seeds
❚
Hazera Genetics
(Israel)
2008
Field seeds
❚
Australian Grain Technologies
(Australia)
❚
Acquisitions
❚
Research partnerships
DEVELOPMENT
IN VEGETABLE SEEDS
1993
Introduction of Vilmorin & Cie
to the Paris stock market
SALES
171
million Euros
NET INCOME
6.5
million Euros
HEADCOUNT
Almost
1,400
2007
Integration of
Limagrain Field seeds
(Europe and North America)
SALES
939
million Euros
NET INCOME
57.3
million Euros
HEADCOUNT
Almost
4,400