Insights and Stories on Louis Dreyfus

Commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus creates food solutions unit

Dec. 13, 2022 at 5:59 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — Agricultural commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) has created a food and feed solutions business line as part of efforts to diversify its activities in step with consumer trends, the company said on Tuesday. The new unit will focus on developing LDC’s presence in the lecithin, […]

Competition Bureau’s call for Manitoba elevator sale rejected

Nov. 10, 2022 at 5:04 am CST

By Dave Bedard

wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia.

Louis Dreyfus suspends operations in Russia

Mar. 4, 2022 at 7:17 pm CST

By Reuters

Dreyfus chair owes US$240 million after ADQ deal

Jan. 4, 2022 at 1:50 pm CST

By Reuters

Dreyfus, others shut soy crushers in China on power curbs

Sep. 24, 2021 at 7:15 pm CDT

By Reuters

Louis Dreyfus completes stake sale to ADQ

Sep. 10, 2021 at 8:16 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) said on Friday it had completed the sale of a 45 per cent indirect stake to Abu Dhabi holding firm ADQ, marking the arrival of the first non-family shareholder in the agricultural commodity group’s 170-year history. The overall value of the deal […]

By Reuters

Louis Dreyfus to gain first outside investor

Nov. 11, 2020 at 4:03 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) has agreed to sell a 45 per cent stake to Abu Dhabi’s ADQ, the companies said on Wednesday, the first outside investment in the family-owned commodity merchant’s 169-year-old history. The deal comes after a search by chairwoman Margarita Louis-Dreyfus for an investor […]

By Gus Trompiz

Dreyfus reportedly in talks to sell stake to Abu Dhabi’s ADQ

Sep. 4, 2020 at 9:38 pm CDT

Reuters — Commodity trader Louis Dreyfus Corp. is in talks to sell a stake to Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. For the privately held company, which has been facing a challenging business environment, bringing external investors would be […]

By Reuters

Louis Dreyfus adds venture capital unit

Jun. 18, 2020 at 1:59 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — Agricultural commodities trader Louis Dreyfus Co. has launched a venture capital program to invest in food and farming firms while also announcing a change of head for its innovation business. “Over the coming months, we will invest in early-stage companies with the potential to transform the […]

By Reuters

P+H to challenge regulators’ request for elevator sale

Feb. 4, 2020 at 11:26 am CST

Grain firm Parrish and Heimbecker aims to keep its now-expanded Prairie elevator network intact against a proposed order from federal antitrust regulators. Winnipeg-based, privately-held P+H in September announced a deal to buy all 10 of the primary Prairie grain elevators built by agrifood giant Louis Dreyfus Co. between 1998 and […]

By Dave Bedard

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