KWS SAAT SE & Co KGaA is a holding company, which engages in the breeding, development, and trade of crops. The company is headquartered in Einbeck, Niedersachsen and currently employs 4,887 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2002-01-14. The Company’s activities are divided into three segments: Corn, Sugarbeet and Cereals. The Corn segment offers corn, rapeseed, sunflower, sorghum, millet, and field crop seeds. The Sugarbeet segment provides sugar beet, and energy beet seeds, as well as animal feed. The Cereals segment offers wheat, rye, hybrid rye, winter barley, spring barley, oil and field crop and organic seeds. The firm also provides seeds for fodder beets, soybeans, grain peas and catch crops. The company operates through a number of subsidiaries in Germany, Switzerland, the United States, France, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Chile and Belgium, among others.
