By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Climate Asset Management (CAM) was formed in 2020 as a joint venture between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination, a climate change and advisory firm, with the goal of being the world’s leading asset management company fully dedicated to natural capital providing investment solutions that benefit nature, people, and the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media JLL’s Agribusiness team of Chris Holgar, Geoff Warriner, Clayton Smith, and Jock Grimshaw have been appointed to broker the sale of the entire farming operations of Mackay Farming Group – Australia’s largest banana and tropical fruit enterprise. Begun in 1945 by canecutter Stan Mackay, who planted his first banana […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Through a deal with an overall value of approximately $18 billion, Bunge, one of the original A-B-C-D giants of grain trading, has agreed to a merger with Glencore, CPP Investments, and BCI-backed Viterra, creating a global powerhouse. Glencore acquired Viterra in 2012 for CAD6.1 billion through a deal that […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Mission Produce, a vertically integrated, global leader in the avocado business, has partnered with Criterion Africa Partners (CAP), a private equity firm developing assets in the forestry value chain in Sub-Saharan Africa, and ZZ2 Boerdery (ZZ2), one of South Africa’s largest farming companies, to launch the joint venture Selokwe […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As part of a reorganization, Japan’s Marubeni announced it has agreed to sell the U.S. grain business of its subsidiary Gavilon to Viterra, the Dutch unit of global giant Glencore, through a deal that Marubeni expects to be worth as much as $2.6 billion to $3.5 billion (300 billion […]
