Interesting facts about DuPont
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E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company (DuPont) is a diversified global chemical, agricultural and biotechnology corporation with headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. It is one of the "Big 6" Biotech Cor...
porations, along with BASF, Bayer, Dow Chemical Company, Syngenta, and Monsanto (so called because they dominate the agricultural input market.)
Starting out as an explosives and gunpowder maker it grew fast and in the 1920s, it became the largest shareholder in General Motors. The company was finally forced to sell its stake in the company in 1962, after 13 years of anti-trust legislation.
It is the second-largest seed company in the world after Monsanto.
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