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| shareholder | country | % | source |
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year | business source |
| 2007 | Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, BASF, Dow and DuPont together sell 85 percent of the annual pesticide bought in the world, a market valued 30 billion US dollars. | IPS |
| 2006 | Dow Chemical is the world's largest polystyrene producer. | Les Echos |
| 2005 | Largest chemical group in the world. | Le Monde |
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| country | address & contact : production type incentive source |
 Germany | Werk Stade Postfach1120 21677 Stade : |
| Germany | Industriestr. 1 77836 Rheinmünster : |
| Germany | Theodor Schwarte Strasse 2 59227 Ahlen : |
| Germany | Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund D-06258 Schkopau : |
 Argentina | Avda. San Martín 1881 Bahía Blanca : |
| Argentina | J.D.Perón e H. Yirigoyen (2202) - Pto. San Martín : |
 Australia | 541-583 Kororoit Creek Road Altona, Victoria 3018 & 92263500 : polymères |
 Barbados | Dow AgroSciences Barbados Ltd : |
 Belgium | Havenlaan 7 3980 Tessenderlo : |
 Brazil | Av. Santos Dumont, 4.444 Conceiçãozinha – Guarujá : |
| Brazil | Rodovia Matoim, s/n Rotula 3 Z.I.P. Candeias : |
| Brazil | Av. Fornari, 2990 Engordadouro - Jundiaí : |
| Brazil | Rua Dumas, 1671 Chácara Sto. Antonio - São Paulo : |
 Chile | Avda. Rocoto 3013 Casilla 337 Talcahuano : |
 China | Stone Bridge, Beilun Ningbo 315800 : |
| China | Jinhua Er. St., Jinxiu Road, Guangzhou 510730 : polyurethanes |
| China | Nantong : Les Echos |
 Spain | Avda. Del Castellar 31550 Ribaforada, Navarra : |
| Spain | Avenida Iparraguine 48940 Leioa (Vizcaya) : |
| Spain | Apartado 195 43080 Tarragona : |
 France | Lauterbourg : Les Echos |
 Hong-Kong | 40-50 Tsing Yi Road Tsing Yi Island & 24313222 : |
 Mauritius | Dow AgroSciences Agricultural Products Ltd : |
 Indonesia | Desa Gerem Kec. Pulomerak Cilegon 42438 : |
 Ireland | Dow International Financial Services : |
| Ireland | Dorinco Insurance (Ireland) Ltd : |
| Ireland | Dow Capital Public Limited Co : |
 Italia | Via Carpi, 29 42015 Correggio : |
| Italia | Via Emilia, 2 26861 Fombio (LO) : |
| Italia | Via L. Galvani, 34 57123 Livorno : |
 Japan | 4-1, Nitto-cho, Handa-shi, Aichi-ken 475-0033 : |
| Japan | 92-2 Ogurano, Gotemba-shi Shizuoka-ken, 412-0013 : |
 Jersey | Mermaid Containers Ltd : |
| Jersey | Sentrachem International Holdings Ltd : |
 Malaysia | 46350 Petaling Jaya Selangor Darul Ehsan : |
 Mexico | 302 Cd. Industrial Xicotencatl – Tetla – Tlaxcala : |
| Mexico | Filiberto Gómez No. 46 Tlalnepantla C.P. 54030 : |
 Panama | Sanachem Holdings Inc : |
| Panama | IMIC Chem Trading Inc : |
| Panama | Lepetit International Inc : |
 Paraguay | Dow AgroSciences Paraguay S.A : |
 Netherlands | Heemskesweg 45 9936 Farmsum 9930 AB Delfzijl : |
 Russia | Dow Izolan JV, Vladimir, about 120 miles northeast of Moscow. : Production, polyurethane systems AP |
 Singapore | Dow Financial Holdings Singapore Pte Ltd : |
| Singapore | Dow Chemical Pacific (Singapore) Private Ltd : |
 Sweden | Ramshällsvägen 2 601 17 Norrköping : |
 Uruguay | Dow AgroSciences Uruguay S.A : |
| Uruguay | Dow Quimica Latin America S.A : |
 Venezuela | Distrito Miranda – Maracaibo Estado de Zulia : |
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| year name | photo position; compensation source |
| 2005Liveris, Abdrew N |  Chief Executive Officer; salary: 3,34 million US$; stock-options: 0,67 million US$;
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2009 | -25 | Internal restructuring: Dow closes the European head office of Rohm & Haas in Morges.: Switzerland | AGEFI |
| 2008 | -11000 | Internal restructuring: Dow Chemical cuts 11% of its workforce, closes 20 facilities permanently, idles 180 plants temporarily and the company’s contractor workforce will be reduced by about 6,000 worldwide. The moves will reduce annual costs about $700 million by 2010.: | Bloomberg |
| 2007 | -416 | Closure/Bankruptcy: Dow Agrosciences closes the factories of Wimetal, of Rüsch France and Lauterburg in Alsace because of "over-production capacities" and "the competition of generic fungicides".: France | Les Echos |
| 2004 | -3000 | Internal restructuring: | USA Today |
| 2002 | -3500 | | Dow Jones online |
| 2001 | -4500 | | Houston Chronicle |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
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| year | country : consequences source |
| 2008 | Canada : Dow Chemical sues Canada, under the Chapter 11 of NAFTA on investment protection, and demands "at least" $ 2 million in compensation to offset the losses that caused by the ban of the pesticide 2,4-D in Quebec. 2,4-D is considered teratogenic by the environmental protection agency of California. | La Presse Canadienne |
| 2008 | United States of America : Dow Chemical and Rockwell that were contractors at the now-defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have been ordered to pay $925 million to residents who claimed contamination blown from the facility endangered people's health and devalued their property | AFP |
| 2006 | : Manufacture and sells products contributing to the erosion and the impoverishment of the agricultural soils. | Book |
| 2005 | United States of America brand: Mycogen Seeds : A obtenu les droits de propriété industrielle extensifs et exclusifs pour le Bt transgénique dans les plantes aux Etats-Unis. | Le Bulletin des agriculteurs |
| 2005 | Honduras : According to a new lawsuit brought by over 600 Honduran banana workers, filed on 14 April in a Los Angeles federal court, the company knowingly used and distributed the pesticide 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) which has resulted in widespread cases of sterility, testicular atrophy, miscarriages and other serious health complaints. The DBCP was banned by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1979. | Ethical Corporation |
| 2004 | Vietnam : Des associations vietnamiennes réclament un dédommagement pour les victimes entre 1961 et 1971 par les Etats-Unis: : cancer, malformations génétiques, pollution | |
| 2004 | Nicaragua : Incriminée dans l'intoxication de travailleurs dans des bananeraies nicaraguayennes | AFP |
| 2003 | New Zealand : Dioxin contamination to air, land and water, buried waste that subsequently leached | Greenpeace |
| 2003 | United States of America : Accused of dioxin contamination caused by its Midland manufacturing plant that has threatened habitants' health and left their property worthless. | |
| 2002 | United States of America : Dow offered $3 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the environmental group San Francisco BayKeeper that alleged the company illegally discharged contaminated water into California's New York Slough | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 2002 | Nicaragua : With two other companies, ordered to pay $490 million to 583 banana workers allegedly affected by the use of the pesticide Nemagon in the banana fields of western Nicaragua. | AP |
| 2000 | Brazil : Carbon tetrachloride, organochlorine and heavy metals in the vicinity of the Guaruja plant, and in river sediments | Greenpeace |
| 1999 | : Production, purchase or sale of genetically modified organisms which may cause an irreversible genetic pollution, a destruction of the biodiversity and health risks for the consumers. | The Guardian |
| 1997 | : Agreed to pay $41,5 million in an out-of court settlement following a joint action lawsuit brought by banana workers in Central America and the Philippines. | Ethical Corporation |
| 1996 | India : Accidental poisoning of people and permanent pollution of the environment with neurotoxic organophosphate pesticides (chlorpyrifos, Dursban and Lorsban) | Greenpeace |
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| year | country : consequences source |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | | buyback | source |
| 2008 |
| | 0,58 | | | billion US$ | Les Echos |
| 2007 |
| | 2,8 | | | billion US$ | Les Echos |
| 2007 |
The European Commission has fined Bayer AG, Denka Group, EI Du Pont de Nemours & Co, Dow Chemical Co, ENI and Tosoh Corp a total of 243.2 mln eur for participating in a cartel for chloroprene rubber between 1993 and 2002. The companies involved shared the market and fixed prices for chloroprene rubber, which is used for rubber components in a range of industrial products such as latex for the production of diving equipment, condoms, and the inner soles of shoes and as an adhesive. |
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| 2006 |
Dow Chemical is fined 64,6 million euros by the European Union for fixing the prices of ingredients in rubber used in tires and shoes, from at least 1996 to 2002. |
| | | | | | Bloomberg |
| 2004 |
Life insurance policies took out on 20 000 employees in 1988 and 1991 |
| | | | | | AFX |
| 2004 |
Price fixing in half a dozen chemicals used in plastics, rubber and synthetic materials in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. |
| | | | | | AP |
| 2002 |
| 27,61 | -0,34 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2002 |
«Dead peasant insurance»: secretly bought life insurance on employees with the company as beneficiary for investment and tax purposes: tax-free investment income, tax deductions on interest paid on loans against the policy, tax free death benefits. |
| | | | | | Wall Street Journal |
| 2001 |
| 27,8 | -0,38 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2000 |
| 23,01 | 1,51 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1999 |
| 18,93 | 1,33 | | | billion US$ | |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | assets | buyback | source |
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| year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
| 2001 | Access to foreign market (through MAI, WTO, GATS), prevent binding environmental regulations : USCIB (US Council For International Business) : : US Government  translate | USCIB |
| 2000 | Investment protection and market access (to Mexico and Canada through NAFTA), to Latin America (through FTAA). : Business Roundtable : : US government, senate, congress translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
| 2000 | Market access (through WTO), cheaper energy (through energy liberalization in Europe); uniform rules to enable the patenting of plants and animals (through TRIPS); prevent advert legislation on chemicals, self-regulation instead; : CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 2000 | Prevent binding environmental regulations (environmental protection through economic growth, self-regulation and free trade) : WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) : : United Nations translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 1999 | Market access and investment protection (through WTO, GATS), avoid social and environmental rules : ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) : : WTO, GATS translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 1999 | Market admission for genetically modified organisms : EuropaBio : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 1998 | Regulation favorable to company's interests : Contribution to Candidate's Political Action Committee : amount: 36 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
| 1998 | Regulation favorable to company's interests : Contribution to Candidate's Political Action Committee : amount: 172 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
| 1997 | Legislation favorable to company's interests : Direct donation : amount: 1500 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
| 1997 | Legislation favorable to company's interests : Direct donation : amount: 260 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
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| year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
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| year | dubious practice : image source |
| 2002 | Disinformation: PR campaign with Burson-Marsteller PR: public relations: B | Geopolitique.com |
| 2002 | Arguable partnership: Nature Conservancy: value: Nature protection; | Washington Post |
| 2000 | Disinformation: PR campaign with Ketchum PR: public relations: K | PR Watch |
| 1999 | Arguable partnership: Nations Unies: value: Respect des droits de l'Homme; | AP |
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