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American Home Products Corporation / BASF AG (Cyanamid agricultural divestiture)

2000 · Asset Purchase · $3.8B · Complete

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Mar 22, 2000 Farmers Weekly Bullish

BASF Chairman Jurgen Strube framed the deal as combining the two crop protection businesses to strengthen North/South American presence; combined 1999 sales…

Jul 17, 2000 American Home Products Form 8-K (SEC EDGAR) Neutral

BASF paid the Company $3.8 billion in cash and assumed certain debt. The Company recorded an after-tax loss on the sale of this business of $1,573.0 million or…

Jan 01, 2024 Wikipedia (American Cyanamid) Neutral

BASF acquired American Cyanamid's agricultural division from AHP in 2000, a divestiture that completed AHP's pharma refocus and positioned BASF as a top-three…

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American Home Products sold its Cyanamid Crop Protection agricultural business to BASF for ~$3.8B in cash, completing portfolio refocus on pharmaceuticals (later renamed Wyeth in 2002). NOT pharma — flagged borderline; included for transparency on AHP/Wyeth strategic direction during the 2000 mega-merger era.

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