DuPont Buys Two Seed Makers
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 07:35 AM EST
EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (NYSE:DD), the world’s second- largest seed maker, announced that its Pioneer Hi-Bred seed unit has acquired Washington Court House, Ohio-based Seed Consultants Inc. and Lake Providence, Louisiana-based Terral Seed. These companies had been distributing seeds under the Pioneer trademark. DuPont’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., operates in the seed [...]