Company type | Public |
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Nasdaq: CERE | |
Industry | Biotechnology |
Founded | 1996 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Richard Hamilton (president and CEO) |
Products | Seeds of energy crops |
Parent | Land O'Lakes |
Subsidiaries | Ceres Sementes do Brasil |
Website | ceres |
Ceres, Inc. was a biotechnology company based in Thousand Oaks, California, United States that operated from 1996 to 2016, when it was acquired by Land O'Lakes. The company was a spinoff from UCLA researchers. Its ultimate commercial products were seeds of genetically modified crops used for biofuel production.[1][2] In addition to its operations in the United States, Ceres had a subsidiary in Brazil called Ceres Sementes do Brasil.[3]