Mega deal: Bayer buys Monsanto

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Glad you brought this up sky ... it is a big deal, but why is a big deal?

I looked at the surface of why, but I think it goes deeper than that with global warming and other scare factors thrown in this could be an even bigger deal.

Here's their surface reasons:http://www.agweb.com/article/why-bay...monsanto-blmg/



PS I hate Monsanto in Hawaii ... they are suspected of tainting everyone's crops around them and have been sued and have paid the price, but the beat goes on

Please be so kind as to watch this video, if not the whole thing just the first two minutes:

The bad reputation of Monsanto certainly is well deserved, the documentations of their malicious behaviours fill volumes, and it rates as one of the globally most hated US companies there are.

But my concern is more on the economic side here. Not many people seem to know that Monsanto is in troubled waters already, and the Germans have paid an insane price for it. I find it hard to imagine that the Germans even can get out their investment from this deal, not to mention generating additional profit. Aloso, Monsanto already is a lean compoany with streamline dstructure, you can win little by cutting jobs or restructuring the orgnbization. The potential there is very small, since the company already is very much optimised - but still in troubled waters.

It would not be the first time that a German heavyweight company spectacularly misjudges an American aquirement, or the American market situation. As I see it, Bayer allowed to get pulled over the table by a American management that played all its cards cleverly and to maximum gambling effect. And Monsanto won, they got the maximum possible for them.

I hope the deal gets torpedoed, by whomever. Else The German taxpayers in the end will crossfinance Bayer's over-ambitious adventure sooner or later, I think. Bayer is so huge that it is system-relevant for German economy, it will not be allowed to go rock-bottom.