{"id":1694,"date":"2019-05-05T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2019-05-05T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:20:11","slug":"why-so-many-big-german-companies-are-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/why-so-many-big-german-companies-are-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Why so many big German companies are in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p class=\"blog-post__rubric\">Bayer is the latest DAX firm burnt by a takeover of an American firm<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-post__inner\">\n<p><span data-caps=\"initial\">I<\/span><small>t has never<\/small>\u00a0happened to a chief executive of a company in the\u00a0<small>dax<\/small>index of Germany\u2019s 30 largest listed firms. On April 26th 56% of shareholders in Bayer, a chemicals conglomerate, censured Werner Baumann and his management team. Most German bosses can count on nine in ten shareholders to back them in non-binding confidence votes. In 2015 a rebellion by a minority, of 39%, of Deutsche Bank\u2019s owners, who censured Anshu Jain and J\u00fcrgen Fitschen, led both co-chief executives to announce their resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer shareholders have reason to be mutinous. Its share price has plunged by 40% since its takeover last June of Monsanto. It is now worth less than the $63bn it paid for the American seed-and-chemicals giant. Critics accuse Mr Baumann of infecting a healthy firm with underestimated legal risks related to Roundup, Monsanto\u2019s blockbuster weedkiller.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2019\/05\/04\/why-so-many-big-german-companies-are-in-trouble\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2019\/05\/04\/why-so-many-big-german-companies-are-in-trouble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer is the latest DAX firm burnt by a takeover of an American firm It has never\u00a0happened to a chief executive of a company in the\u00a0daxindex of Germany\u2019s 30 largest listed firms. On April 26th 56% of shareholders in Bayer, a chemicals conglomerate, censured Werner Baumann and his management team. Most German bosses can count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[31,7,46],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-e-marketing","tag-management"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dazzlepop | Why so many big German companies are in trouble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/why-so-many-big-german-companies-are-in-trouble\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dazzlepop | Why so many big German companies are in trouble\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bayer is the latest DAX firm burnt by a takeover of an American firm It has never\u00a0happened to a chief executive of a company in the\u00a0daxindex of Germany\u2019s 30 largest listed firms. 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