Monsanto

American multinational agricultural biotechnology, seed, and agrochemical company
Organization multinational_corporation Q207983
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Key Facts

  • Award received: Silver Anvil Award[1], Roger Award[2]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Creve Coeur[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: public company[5]
  • Founder: John Francis Queeny[6]
  • Owned by: Bayer[7]
  • Headquarters location: Creve Coeur[8], St. Louis[9]
  • Chief executive officer: Hugh Grant[10], Robert B. Shapiro[11], Charles Allen Thomas[12], Edgar Monsanto Queeny[13], John Francis Queeny[14]
  • Child organization or unit: Monsanto Canada[15], NutraSweet[16], Agracetus[17], Cetus Corporation[18], Delta & Pine Land Company[19], Monsanto (United Kingdom)[20], Monsanto (India)[21], Monsanto (Brazil)[22], Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.[23]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[24]
  • Industry: agriculture[25], biotechnology[26]
  • Inception: 1901[27]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: June 7, 2018[28]
  • Location of formation: St. Louis[29]
  • Parent organization or unit: Bayer[30]
  • Official website: https://monsanto.com/[31]
  • Product or material produced: seed[32], herbicide[33], fertilizer[34]
  • Employees: 25,500[35], 21,900[36], 21,700[37], 21,400[38]
  • Depicted by: Monsanto to Acquire G. D. Searle[39]
  • Legal form: Delaware corporation[40]
  • Total revenue: 15,000,000,000 US dollars[41]
  • Net profit: 2,300,000,000 US dollars[42]

FAQs

What awards did Monsanto receive?

Honors received include Silver Anvil Award[1] and Roger Award[2].

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  39. [39] ↑ . nytimes.com. nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [40] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  41. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  1. 10w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 327E-BD74-F6BA-182A-39C5
    Harper's tag → monsanto, monsanto-company
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  2. 13w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14715 → Monsanto
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