Hoechst Schering AgrEvo GmbH

Hoechst Schering AgrEvo GmbH was a Düsseldorf-based limited liability company owned by Hoechst AG and Schering AG that only existed as an independent company for five years, from 1994 to 1999.^[1]

It was established in 1994, when two German producers of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, Hoechst and Schering, merged their crop protection divisions into a new joint venture to benefit from economies of scale in marketing and research and development.^[1] In 1999, AgrEvo’s majority shareholder, Hoechst, merged with the French pharmaceutical and chemical company Rhône-Poulenc to become Aventis, with AgrEvo and Rhône-Poulenc's agrochemicals division combined into Aventis CropScience.^[1] In 2002, Bayer AG acquired Aventis CropScience and combined it with their agrochemicals division (Bayer Pflanzenschutz or "Crop Protection") to form Bayer CropScience.

Products

Unim Plus, a weedicide for vegetables, tea, and cotton^[2]
Puma, a super herbicide for wheat^[2]

References

1 2 3 Bijman, Jos (2001). "AgroEvo: from crop protection to crop production" (PDF). AgBioForum. 4 (1): 20–25.
1 2 Hoechst Schering AgrEvo: Protecting Investors too, Economic Times, ISSN 0013-0389, 1998.

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