Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Petaluma, US Founded: 1993 Workforce: ~2,400 Company Working: LGC Biosearch Technologies operates as a subsidiary of LGC Limited and acquired Douglas Scientific in the year 2016. LGC, Biosearch Technologies designs, manufactures and markets PCR reagents, custom genotyping assays, genomic services, gene editing, and NGS services, as well as workflow solutions. The company operates in three business segments, namely, products, technologies, and services. It is present in more than 22 countries and has seven manufacturing units along with the three service laboratories all over the world. LGC Biosearch Technologies is a subsidiary of LGC Limited. Hence, the provided financial information is of LGC Limited.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1977 Workforce: ~ 164,000 Company Working: Apple Inc. (Apple) creates, manufactures, and sells smartphones, tablets, personal computers (PCs), portable devices, and wearable technology. Aside from software and related services, the company also provides accessories, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and apps. Apple's product lineup consists of the iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. It provides a wide range of consumer and professional software applications, including iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, as well as iCloud, AppleCare, Apple Pay, and accessories. Apple sells and distributes digital material and applications through the Apple Store, App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+, Apple Card, Apple Pay, and Apple Music, among other channels. The corporation serves consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, education, enterprise, and government markets. It makes third-party applications for its products available through the App Store. Additionally, the company offers its products through its retail and online stores, as well as its direct sales force, as well as third-party cellular network carriers, distributors, merchants, and resellers. The corporation operates in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, in the US.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1865 Workforce: ~111,047 Company Working: BASF SE (BASF) is a chemical enterprise that engages in the manufacturing, promotion and distribution of various products, such as chemicals, plastics, crop protection and performance products. BASF SE is a German multinational chemical company that operates in six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care, and Agricultural Solutions. The company is committed to sustainability and has set ambitious targets to reduce its environmental impact, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy efficiency, and promoting a circular economy. BASF SE offers a wide range of chemical products, including plastics, performance products, functional solutions, and agricultural solutions, among others. The company has a strong global presence with production sites in over 80 countries and a customer base that spans various industries, including automotive, construction, agriculture, and consumer goods. The company's product line encompasses a wide array of offerings, such as solvents, adhesives, dyes, surfactants, fuel additives, electronic chemicals, pigments, paints, food additives, fungicides, and herbicides. BASF serves an extensive range of industries including construction, furniture and wood, agriculture, electronics and electrical, paints and coatings, automotive, home care, nutrition, chemicals, and other related sectors. Additionally, BASF collaborates with global customers, scientists, and partners to carry out research and development initiatives. The company operates through a network of manufacturing facilities located worldwide, with a presence in Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and North America. BASF and DIC had reached an agreement on the acquisition of BASF’s global pigments business with about 2,600 employees on August 29, 2019

Company Headquarters: Paris, France Founded: 1990 Workforce: ~ 6,653 Company Working: Vilmorin & Cie is one of the world’s leading companies in the seed sector. The company has three business segments, namely, vegetable seeds, field seeds, and garden seeds activity, and out of these vegetable and field seeds are its core businesses. It relies on continuous investment in its research and development (R&D) and a robust international development strategy to strengthen its position in the market. It also focuses exclusively on seeds and is not at all involved in agrochemicals.

Company Headquarters: Plano, Texas, US Founded: 1981 Workforce: ~155,000 Company Working: Keurig Dr Pepper is a global leader in manufacturing beverages. The company offers different products such as flavored (non-cola) carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) and non-carbonated beverages (NCBs), including ready-to-drink teas and coffee, juices, water, mixers, and specialty coffee. It has a strong presence and a production facility in the US. It offers more than 125 brands of different products.

Company Headquarters: Massachusetts, US Founded: 2006 Workforce: ~70,000+ Company Working: Thermo Fisher Scientific specializes in various biotechnology products such as analytical instruments, laboratory supply chain programs and e-commerce, laboratory equipment, lab services, specialty diagnostics, and others. The company helps its customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to the market, and increase the productivity of the laboratory. It has five premier brands, namely, Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, and Unity Lab Services through which it offers an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services.

Company Headquarters: Paris, Ile-de-France, France Founded: 1919 Workforce: ~308,000 Company Working: Danone S.A. manufactures baby food products, medical nutrition products, and dairy products. The company operates in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It has a presence in 130 countries around the world. It generates maximum revenue from the dairy products segment. The company offers packaged natural, flavored, and vitamin-enriched water under the brand names Evian, Volvic, Badoit, Aqua, Mizone, Bonafont, Villavicencio, Villa del Sur, Fontvella, Lanjarón, and Zywiec Zdroj.

Company Headquarters: Midland, US Founded: 1883 Workforce: ~98,000 Company Working: DowDuPont is a holding company that develops agricultural products, specialty materials, and chemicals. It operates through 534 manufacturing sites and the agriculture, performance materials and coatings, industrial intermediates and infrastructure, packaging and specialty plastics, electronics and imaging, nutrition and biosciences, transportation and advanced polymers, and safety and construction segments. DowDuPont planned to create three independent companies called Corteva Agriscience, Dow, and New DuPont, where Covetra Agriscience will represent the agriculture division of the company, while Dow will represent the materials science division, and New DuPont the specialty products division. In April 2019, DowDuPont completed separation of materials science division through the spin-off of Dow Inc and is likely to complete the separation of its agriculture division in June 2019.

Company Headquarters: California, US Founded: 2002 Workforce: ~40 Company Working: Arcadia Biosciences develops and markets high-value food ingredients, nutritional oils, and improved crops using biotechnology techniques. This consumer-driven agricultural technology company uses state-of-the-art gene-editing technology and advanced breeding techniques to naturally enhance the nutritional quality of grains and oilseeds to address the rapidly evolving trends in consumer health and nutrition. The company has also developed a broad pipeline of high-value crop productivity traits designed to enhance farm economics. It provides gamma-linolenic acid safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) oil under the brand SONOVA. It has collaboration with Dow AgroSciences LLC to develop and commercialize soybean traits. Based in Davis, it comprises administrative offices in Phoenix and Arizona in the US. Some of the flagship brands of Arcadia Biosciences include GoodWheat, SONOVA, and HB4, among others. The company’s portfolio of agricultural traits (Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Salinity Tolerance, Water Use Efficiency) is being developed to enable farmers around the world to be more productive and minimize the impact of agriculture on the environment. As of March 2019, the company’s patent portfolio included 153 issued patents and 63 pending patent applications worldwide in 30 patent families relating to the trait technologies. This company, along with Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. also constitutes a joint venture, Verdeca, which is focused on developing and deregulating crop varieties with next-generation agricultural technologies. Verdeca received commercialization approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2017 for HB4 Drought Tolerance trait in soybean. Regulatory approvals for the same product were obtained in Argentina in 2015. Regulatory submissions were made in 2016 for import approval of HB4 soybeans into China, whereas regulatory approval for Brazil was submitted in 2018, and import approval in the European Union is to be submitted in 2019.