Board of Directors of DowDuPont has given its approval for the previously announced separation of the company’s Agriculture Division, which will become Corteva Agriscience™ on June 1 2019.

The board, to effect the separation of the division, has declared a pro rata dividend of all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Corteva, Inc. The dividend is likely to be paid to the stockholders of DowDuPont on June 1 2019. Each stockholder of DowDuPont will receive one share of Corteva common stock for every three shares of common stock of DowDuPont they held on May 24 2019. The registered stockholders of DowDuPont will get cash in place of any fractional shares of Corteva, Inc. common stock.

NYSE has authorized the listing of Corteva’s common stock. The trading of Corteva’s stock will start on May 24 2019, under the symbol CTVA-WI (WI – when issued). Corteva’s common stock will start trading on NYSE in “regular way” under the symbol “CTVA”, on June 3 2019.

According to TechSci Research, with the separation of the Agriculture Division, Corteva Agriscience will emerge as a leading pure-play agriculture company with a balanced portfolio.

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