(Left to right) Pacific Agriscience’s CS Liew meeting with CCAB Agro and InVivo in Paris, France
La cooperativa de agricultores francesa InVivo ha adquirido una participación mayoritaria en CCAB Agro, un importador de productos químicos genéricos para cultivos con sede en Brasil.
InVivo, with 220 farmer cooperatives being the owners, is the largest agricultural cooperative in France with a sales turnover exceeding 6 billion euros. InVivo distributes about 40% of crop inputs such as pesticides and fertilizers sold in France, the EU’s biggest grain producer. InVivo will expand joint procurement of crop chemicals through Novafield, a European alliance of cooperatives. Through Life Scientific, their partially owned venture in Ireland, they develop, via reverse-engineering, and offer off-patent pesticide formulations that are as good as MNCs’ products.
CCAB Agro es propiedad de un grupo de 20 cooperativas en Brasil. Se especializan en registrar plaguicidas genéricos, importarlos y suministrarlos a sus agricultores propietarios. Tiene un volumen de ventas de más de $100 millones, que incluye productos patentados de las principales. CCAB Agro se centra en los insumos agrícolas de algodón, soja y maíz, pero pronto se expandirán a otros cultivos clave una vez que obtengan más registros de productos durante los próximos meses.
Pacific Agriscience se complace en ser la parte que armó el trato al presentarles a los dos en mayo de 2016.
By making a visit to Brazil to gain a thorough understanding of the CCAB Agro business and operations, Pacific Agriscience’s CS Liew says it was able to detail and articulate to InVivo the strategic importance and fit of CCAB Agro into their global objectives and expansion plans. Likewise, visits made to both InVivo and Life Scientific back in late 2015 were extremely insightful in terms of having a good grasp of this company’s business operations and strategic directions.
“As part of the mutual introductions, we summarized the strategic fit of each other and presented this to the two parties. Both being agricultural cooperatives, they have not only a natural fit but both bring good value to each other’s business operations. Our conclusion was that this was a marriage made in heaven and one in which the Chinese marriage greeting: Wishing you ‘Hundred children, thousand grand children’ applies!” according to a Pacific Agriscience statement.
Fuente: Pacific Agriscience