date:Jun 25, 2014
se domestic production and safeguard food security.
The reported talks with Monsanto put pressure on Syngenta Chief Executive Officer Mike Mack to bolster the company's performance and to give money back to shareholders, said several analysts, including those at Deutsche Bank and MainFirst.
This steadily increasing MA story plus the activism theme we are seeing in U.S. chemicals mean that management teams in Europe are under more pressure to improve balance sheet efficiency and/or share prices