Key dates

Jean-Paul Simmler creates the company SBM Développement and acquires a production site belonging to Rhône Poulenc Agrochimie at the time, creating a partnership with the site employees. This entity, specialized in the formulation and the packaging of plant protection products for the agricultural market, is located at Béziers. SBM is born, and the adventure begins…

To contribute to warehouse volumes, the decision is taken to create a range of products for crop protection.

In the same spirit, SBM expands into the garden world by engaging in the distribution of public products with the creation of NovaJardin.

To satisfy the growing needs of the garden sector, the group strengthens itself thanks to the acquisition of a production site specialised in the packaging of small packages: IRIS.

SBM purchases the industrial unit AgrEvo ProdeTech, specialized in the formulation of insecticides in Marseilles, and doubles their revenue and their workforce.

Anticipating the evolution of the natural products market, SBM purchases the garden activity of the Samabiol company as well as the Solabiol brand, expert in natural products. This operation allows this new range to benefit from the comprehensive expertise of the group in terms of testing, registration, manufacture and product launching.

Through this acquisition, SBM will become the first major player in the garden sector to bet on the natural way in France.

SBM buys an insecticide molecule from Bayer, cypermethrin, for which it obtains European level registration in 2006.

SBM creates CMPA in order to market this range on the agricultural market, in Europe and in North Africa. This molecule will also be developed on the garden market.

Production at the Marseille factory is stopped definitively.

CMPA launches Belem®, first non-systemic soil insecticide granule with a cypermethrin base, registered for corn and sunflowers. It proves to be a success!

To strengthen their position on the market, NovaJardin expands their offer with the acquisition of Caussade, specialised in consumer pest control (rat poison, rodenticide and household insecticides). This acquisition softens the dependency of seasonality linked to garden operations and to arrive on a new market: home protection.

The management of this entity is entrusted to Alexandre Simmler.

SBM adds essential oils to their range of activities by purchasing the Laboratoire de Combe d’Ase (LCA), specialist in aromatherapy.

SBM creates a stir by purchasing Bayer Jardin/Garden in Europe and Bayer Advanced in the United States. In France, the merger of Bayer Jardin and NovaJardin gives life to SBM Life Science on 5 October 2016.

The new activity of the group is launched among the major world players of this market, allowing the SBM group to triple their revenue and to double their workforce. The doors of the European and American markets open…

In November 2016, the group joins forces with the French Institute of Science and Environment Ecology (iEES) of the University Pierre et Marie Curie de Paris to create a common R&D platform for the identification of active biocontrol substances.

SBM acquires shares in Germe SA a laboratory specialized in biotechnology and microbiology.

The laboratory’s know-how applied to biocontrol and biostimulant products strengthens and diversifies our expertise while supporting Solabiol in the sector of natural products.

SBM strengthens its presence in the US by purchasing from Bayer its
formulation and packaging site in Pasadena, Texas, demonstrating to their customers it integration throughout the entirety of the value chain.

SBM Life Science signs an agreement with Valagro and becomes owner of several leading brands in garden products and will market hundreds of references on the European and American markets.

SBM Life Science continues expanding its North American operations with the completion of its first U.S.-based field research station in White Heath, Illinois.

SBM Company and the University of Sorbonne combine their expertise and inaugurate NatInControl, a research project established to identify and develop new biocontrol solutions efficient for plant protection against pests.

Pionneer brand in natural gardening for more than 20 years, Solabiol has been helping gardeners to beautify and maintain plants at every stage of gardening.

Solabiol is committed to offering you products respectful of your plantations and the environment, and guarantees you to have beautiful and healthy plants, while remaining in tune with nature.

SBM Company headquarters (Ecully – FR) greets
local and international teams, clients and partners.
La Canopée is a great showcase of our business
thanks to our first ambassadors and consumers:
our employees! A collaborative site with beautiful
gardens where our products and solutions are tested
on Buxus collections, veggie garden, ornemental
trees and flowers.

Protect Garden is a brand ensuring efficiency & simplicity. It offers a large range of products to protect, feed plants and care for the garden.

Protect Home offers innovation products for a clean home and an efficient humain protection against pests.