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Dalgety And Co.
Dalgety plc—as Dalgety and Company—was for more than a century a major pastoral and agricultural company or stock and station agency in Australia and New Zealand. Controlled from London it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and Australasian exchanges. With the mid-20th century decline of the pastoral sector, particularly where Dalgety held the leading position in the synthetics bedevilled slumping wool trade, new investment was made in different sectors in other countries and Australasian investments sold down until it became a foods and agricultural business of the northern hemisphere. A successful conglomerate its core businesses were badly damaged by the wholesale slaughter of British beef animals following the discovery ''mad cow disease'' did, as suspected, move from cattle to humans. In 1996 and 1997 Dalgety sold 75 per cent of its whole business leaving its principal investment in animal (porcine) biotechnology. Renamed PIC International after its own biotech s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus Plc
Genus plc is a United Kingdom, British-based business selling elite genetics and other products manufactured using biotechnology to cattle and pig farmers. It is headquartered in Basingstoke and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History The business has its origins in the former Breeding & Production Division of the Milk Marketing Board which was established in 1933 and broken up in 1994. In 1999 Genus acquired ABS Global, a company founded by J.R. Prentice in the United States, US as the ''American Breeders Service'' in 1941 selling the semen of cattle. In 2005 Genus acquired, through the takeover of Dalgety plc, Sygen International plc, PIC, a company founded by six pork producers in the United Kingdom, UK as the ''Pig Improvement Company'' in 1962. Operations The Company has three divisions: * ABS - products for cattle * PIC - products for pigs *Genus R&D - management of the research and development pipeline for cattle, pigs and other species. PIC's pedigree herds sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
