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Company Headquarters: Massachusetts, US Founded: 1992 Workforce: ~ 22 Company Working: Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. changed its name from Metabolix Inc. to Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. in 2017. Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is actively involved in developing and manufacturing high-quality seed traits for the agriculture and food industry. It concentrates on the development of products related to the agricultural bioscience segment in which crops such as corn, soybean, canola, wheat, and rice are main major focus areas of the company. It operates in only one business segment namely, Innovation Platform. Its investments in R&D are significantly high, and it has a strong product pipeline.

Company Headquarters: Rehovot, Israel Founded: 2002 Workforce: ~ 51-200 Company Working: Evogene Ltd (Evogene) is an Israel-based life science company. It operates in agriculture, human health, and life-science sectors and manufactures products related to biotechnology, biofuel, computational genomics, advanced breeding, plant genomics, and chemicals. Evogene operates in two business segments, namely, Evogene and Evofuel. It offers products through its subsidiaries, including Lavie Bio Ltd, Biomica Ltd, Evogene, Inc., and Evofuel Ltd. It is involved in strategic collaborations and agreements with major players in the market to develop innovative plant traits.

Company Headquarters: Indianapolis, US Founded: 1989 Workforce: ~21,100 Company Working: Corteva Agriscience develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of products, including seeds and traits, crop protection, software, and digital solutions, seed treatments, forages, inoculants, vegetation management, pasture management, turf and ornamental, urban pest management, and oil. It is directly present in more than 50 countries and covers all major regions such as North America, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East & Africa. Corteva Agriscience is a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company. Hence, the provided financial information is of the Dow Chemical Company.

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: 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: 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: 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.

Company Headquarters: Vevey, Switzerland Founded: 1905 Workforce: 328,000 + employees (2017) Company Working: The company is focusing on developing the world's best products and services for all stages of life helping people and their families. The company produces approximately a billion science-based nutritional solutions per year which are available through retail and pharmacy outlets or recommended by healthcare professionals in institutions, which addresses a spectrum of health conditions from pediatric allergy to malnutrition amongst the frail elderly.

Company Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland Founded: 2013 Workforce: ~16,900 Company Working: Allergan is a leading global pharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in the manufacturing and commercialization of hyaluronic acid for medical products, devices, biologics, and surgical products for patients across the world. It operates through three business segments, namely US Specialized Therapeutics, US General Medicine, and International. The company sells its products primarily to the retailers and distributors including food store chains and national retail drug. The prime customers are hospitals, clinics, and government agencies as well as managed healthcare providers, such as health maintenance organizations and other institutions. The company has operations in 100 countries. The US and Canada account for around 10% of the company’s revenue. The three prominent customers of the company are McKesson Corporation, which accounted for around 25% of the sales revenue; Cardinal Health, Inc with 23%; and AmerisourceBergen Corporation with 22% in 2018. In addition, the company has development and manufacturing centers of raw materials, intermediate ingredients, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Its manufacturing plants are located in Ireland, the US, Brazil, Belgium, France, and Costa Rica.