(BN) *BAYER SHAREHOLDER TALKS TO LAST UNTIL NEXT WEEK:MANAGER MAGAZIN

http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/bayer-chemiekonzern-wirbt-bei-aktionaeren-um-zustimmung-a-1094530.htmlBayer currently campaigning for major shareholders to consent to the planned billion takeover of the US company Monsanto. Private investors in Germany are irrelevant - too low is their share.
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According to a company spokesperson from Friday's action will continue until the next week. The reactions among investors were not disclosed. A few days ago had Bayer stock market chart showfor Monsanto a purchase offer of $ 62 billion announced (converted EUR 55 billion). The US suppliers of seed and pesticides, the offer had indeed returned to be too low, but was open to further negotiations.
The protection combination for security possession (DSW), one of the greatest representatives of private investors in Germany, had already welcomed the plans of the Board shortly after the announcement.



The US-Canadian BlackRock Group, currently with more than 6 percent the largest single shareholder of Bayer showing stock market chart , declined to comment about it.

With around 300,000 shareholders Bayer is one of the largest public companies in Germany. Only around 11 percent of Bayer shares are held by private investors, among them are also 1 percent of employee shares for Bayer employees. Nearly 7 percent of Bayer shares were not recorded.
BlackRock, Sun Life Capital Group: The biggest Bayer individual investors sitting in US and Canada
Around 80 percent of shares are in the hands of so-called institutional investors (funds, insurance companies, banks, financial investors).


The largest single investor is currently a little more than 6 percent, the US-Canadian BlackRock Group. Moreover, only the Canadian Financial Services Sun Life and the US investor Capital Group are slightly above the 3 percent threshold required to submit declarations.

Divided by regions accounted for investors from the US and Canada with 27.7 percent, the biggest piece of the pie shareholder capital. This is followed by Germany with 20.6 percent, and in France, Spain, Italy, Portugal with a total of 10.7 percent.
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