Comment: Bayer/Monsanto: How long does this go well?

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The next blow to the neck for Bayer: once Again, the group was sentenced in a glyphosate-case, to the payment of compensation. The company must act urgently, says Henrik Böhme.

You have to take the calculator in Hand, Suppose that each of the plaintiffs of the outstanding glyphosate-charges in the United States – so 13.400 in number – had awarded the same compensation as the cancer Couple Alva and Alberta Pilliod (article image with their lawyers) who are respectively the equivalent of EUR 900 million. Then you would be the bottom line on the unbelievable sum of 12 trillion Euro. And it soon becomes clear that The pay of the Bayer group. It’s the end of the company would change the end after 156 years of history,.

The gravedigger sits in the U.S. state of Missouri, in the vicinity of St. Louis. Monsanto was up to its Acquisition by Bayer is a publicly traded, independent company. A company with a dubious reputation and an even worse Image. But Werner Baumann did not stop, for three years on the Executive chair in the Bayer Headquarters in Leverkusen, of which, the dirt-finches from St. Louis to buy. For the proud price of the equivalent of 59 billion euros. Today, Bayer (Monsanto included) on the stock exchange not more than 54 billion euros in value.

Premiere at the annual General meeting

It brought three weeks ago, shareholders are already belonging to the palm, and for the first time, was denied by the Board of Directors of the stock index, the Dax-listed group’s discharge. Werner Baumann is still in office, the Supervisory Board still believes in him. No wonder, the chief of the Supervisory Board, Werner Wenning, was himself in the past eight years, Bayer CEO, Baumann and his foster child.

Henrik Böhme, DW-business editorial

Only downside: The bad news will not tear easily. Over the weekend it was announced that Monsanto, in France, led a secret list with names, telephone numbers, home addresses, and even Hobbies of politicians, scientists and journalists. So you wanted to educate critics “”. Also for Germany and other countries have such lists. All this, says Bayer today, didn’t you know.

And so there will be further Surprises. It is, as the lawyer of the couple Pilliod, Brent Wisner, says Bayer has bought Monsanto’s “100 years of corruption and scientific fraud.” To this error you are. This could mean, for Bayer, only one: You have to agree with the applicants as quickly as possible to comparisons, that can support the group financially. Of course, a difficult task, because Leverkusen have already nibbling hard enough on the cost of the Acquisition. But there is no other solution. Otherwise, Monsanto is truly the gravedigger of the German world group.