- BASF announced that its U.S. affiliate, BASF Corporation, has entered into an agreement to commence a cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the biotechnology company Verenium Corporation for $4.00 per share.
- Agrium Inc.’s Board of Directors announced its intention to increase Agrium’s dividend by $1.00 U.S. per common share to a total dividend of $3.00 U.S. per common share on an annualized basis. Agrium also provided an outlook for results in the third quarter of 2013.
- ADM opened an intermodal container freight shipping and receiving facility that will enable businesses to tap into the company’s deep transportation and logistics expertise and provide a platform for economic growth in central Illinois.
- CLA joined a number of allies in signing on to a letter to World Food Prize president Kenneth Quinn in support of modern agriculture, specifically the role of biotechnology in helping to feed the world.
