Monsanto Co.

Exporter
800 N Lindbergh Blvd., Saint Louis, MO 63141-7843, United States
(314)694-1000, http://www.monsanto.com

Primary SIC: Pesticides & Agricultural Chems, Not Elsewhere Classified, Primary NAICS: Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing
Description: The Monsanto Company was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901, by John Francis Queeny. The company is a provider of agricultural products, including seeds, biotechnology trait products and herbicides. It operates its business in two segments: Seeds and Genomics and Agricultural Productivity, and considers the first segment to be the core of the company. Under its Seeds and Genomics segment, the company produces a number of seeds with biotechnology traits and provides other seed companies with genetic material and biotechnology traits for their seed brands. The main trademarks for this segment include Roundup Ready, Bollgard, Bollgard II, YieldGard, YieldGard VT, Roundup Ready 2 Yield and SmartStax for traits; DEKALB, Asgrow, Deltapine, and Vistive for row crop seeds; and Seminis, De Ruiter, Royal Sluis, Asgrow, and Petoseed for vegetable seeds. The company distributes these products worldwide, with their vegetable seeds marketed in more than 100 countries through distributors, independent retailers and dealers, agricultural cooperatives and directly to farmers. Under its Agricultural Productivity segment, the company manufactures Roundup brand herbicides and other herbicides and provides lawn-and-garden herbicide products for the residential market. The lawn and garden herbicides are marketed under the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, with the most significant trademark being Roundup. More

Manufacturing: Agricultural products including herbicides, seeds, animal pharmaceuticals to improve dairy cow productivity and swine genetics and lawn-and-garden herbicides for the residential market.