China's largest grain trader COFCO is setting up a venture with sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp (CIC) to control COFCO's investments in Dutch trader Nidera and Noble Group Ltd's agribusiness.
Le géant agroalimentaire Cofco prend le contrôle de la filiale agricole de Noble Group, un des grands traders de matières premières d'Asie.
COFCO's purchase of Dutch trader and farm operator Nidera is the largest ever international acquisition in the history of the Chinese agricultural industry.
China ha decidido abandonar su plan de autosuficiencia en el abastecimiento de soja incrementando la importación de este y otros granos.
China's COFCO has acquired a 51% share of Nidera to establish a strategic partnership.
Es una de las cinco cerealeras más grande del mundo y muy importantes en Argentina. Aunque no hay información oficial, la operación se cerraría en u$s600 millones. El grupo asiático busca garantizare alimentos en el futuro
Cofco makes offer for stake in Nidera, which produces soybeans on over 20,000 ha in Argentina.
- Wall Street Journal
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13 January 2014
Argentinian police raid a Nidera maize plantation near Buenos Aires and find 133 seasonal workers living under conditions resembling "a concentration camp".