Chris Janiec
Managing director Steven Bierschenk says the life science research company plans to introduce more than 100 new offerings that will help make it attractive to future buyers.
Principal Steven Loeffler says the firm will continue to be active in the M&A market and intends to 'go hard' across QualiTech’s markets of animal nutrition, agronomy and food ingredients.
PGIM’s Shehriyar Antia says investors and policymakers see the food system as ‘where the ESG puck is going’ and will draw on recent experience in energy in developing their approach.
Increases in the construction budget and unapproved delays are among factors cited by the real assets specialist in its effort to force sale of a 60-acre tomato greenhouse facility in Richmond, Kentucky.
The Newark, New Jersey-headquartered company cited the capital-intensive nature of CEA and challenging capital market conditions in a filing to the US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
Dick Molpus says increasing participation of women, minorities and first-generation college students is part of a comprehensive approach to keeping up with the demands of an evolving forest products industry.
Paul Pittman says it’s not a fire sale, but the company does aim to boost its stock price in public markets that undervalue the appreciation potential of FPI’s 165k-acre farmland portfolio.
Managing partner Rich Gammill says the Cargill spin-out’s experience in ag-focused real assets and credit will shape its approach to finding good assets with bad balance sheets within US real estate markets.
The acquisition from an unidentified seller adds to more than $500m invested by the pension across Nuveen-managed vehicles that include properties in the US, Australia, Brazil, Chile and New Zealand.
Markets are watching closely the negotiations around a Ukrainian grain export deal that affirms the role of geopolitics and diplomacy in the fortunes of agricultural investors.