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2003/1/6
DuPont and Bunge Announce Global Alliance, Including Joint
Venture to Produce and Market Specialty Food Ingredients http://www1.dupont.com/NASApp/dupontglobal/corp/index.jsp?page=/content/US/en_US/news/releases/2003/nr01_06_03.html
DuPont and Bunge Limited today announced that they intend to form
an alliance to significantly grow their agriculture and nutrition
businesses. The alliance will include:
| ・ | a joint venture for the global production and distribution of specialty food ingredients, beginning with soy proteins and lecithins; |
| ・ | a biotechnology agreement to jointly develop and commercialize soybeans with improved quality traits; |
| ・ | an alliance to develop a broader offering of services and products to farmers. |
The joint venture, Solae L.L.C., will participate in the rapidly growing market for healthy and great tasting food proteins. It will provide a broad offering of soy ingredient products to better fit customer needs, including textured vegetable proteins, soy concentrates and isolates and specialty lecithins. DuPont will contribute its Protein Technologies food ingredients business for a majority interest in the joint venture. In exchange for its specialty food ingredients businesses, Bunge will receive a 28 percent interest in the joint venture plus an estimated $260 million in cash, to be funded by joint venture debt, and will have the right to increase its ownership to 40 percent based upon a pre-agreed formula.
Bunge Limited
( http://www.bunge.com ) is an integrated, international
agribusiness and food company operating in the farm-to-consumer
food chain with worldwide distribution capabilities and primary
operations in North America, South America and Europe.