SAGEA Group

Name

SAGEA Group

Legal name

SAGEA Centro di Saggio s.r.l.

Website

https://sagea.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Contract Research Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (11511)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

HACCP/Preventive Controls (HARPC) Plan Development & Validation (AFALADAB)

Keywords

• Agricultural contract research
• GEP GLP field trials
• Plant protection testing
• Biocidal product studies
• Agricultural regulatory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Castagnito

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Contract Research Services: Professional services providing agricultural research, field trials, laboratory studies, and registration support for plant protection products, biocides, biostimulants, and fertilizers. Revenue generated through service fees for efficacy testing, GLP studies, and regulatory registration consulting.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

SAGEA Group is an independent Contract Research Organization providing agricultural and environmental R&D services to manufacturers of plant protection products, biocides, and biostimulants. It runs GEP and GLP certified field trials, laboratory studies, ecotoxicology, seed testing, processing/sensory analysis, and registration dossier support across Italy, France, Spain, and Bulgaria.

Product overview

SAGEA Group is a private and independent Contract Research Organization (CRO) providing services in agricultural and environmental Research and Development. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of research services organized around eight core service lines: GEP (Good Experimental Practice) efficacy and selectivity studies, GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) studies, processing and sensory analysis, ecotoxicological studies (Ecotox), seed variety testing, biocidal studies, registration support for plant protection products and biocides, and additional specialized services including monitoring, diagnostics, nematological analysis, and plant disease forecasting models. The company operates across multiple European countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Romania, Greece, Hungary, France) and is authorized to perform GEP/GLP field and laboratory trials, serving clients in the development and registration of innovative solutions for agribusiness in Europe.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• SEREXPRO SAS (France)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Acquisition of SEREXPRO, a company with 29 years of experience in field trials on seeds and plant protection products. Headquartered in Coulombiers (Poitiers), Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Strengthens presence in one of Europe's most strategic agricultural countries.
• MAGMA-AGROcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Exclusive Strategic Partnership with MAGMA-AGRO, a leading CRO in Greece since 2012. MAGMA-AGRO has GEP accreditation since 2012 and GLP since 2016, with 2 experimental stations and over 1000 trials conducted. The partnership enhances territorial coverage in South Eastern Europe.
• SyngentamajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on viticulture research (experiments at Institute of Viticulture and Oenology in Alba) and hazelnut crop protection sustainability projects with Ferrero.
• University of Piacenza (OPERA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with University of Piacenza for European training project on PPPs dossiers. Prof. Ettore Capri's team visited SAGEA headquarters to document CRO activities for training future European evaluators.
• Federchimica - AssofertilizzantimajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organization of National Biostimulants Meeting 2020; collaboration on EU Regulation 2019/1009 standardization for biostimulants. SAGEA participates in CEN/TC455 Plant Biostimulants Working Groups 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Scale indicators2 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• SGS: SGS provides inspection, testing, and certification across agriculture, food, chemicals, and environmental markets, making it a broad incumbent competing for regulated product testing and compliance work.
• Intertek: Intertek offers testing, inspection, and assurance for chemicals, agriculture, and environmental products, overlapping SAGEA in regulated testing and registration support but across a much wider portfolio.
• NIAB: NIAB conducts crop science, variety, agronomy, and field research for agricultural clients and public programs, offering a broader research-led analogue to SAGEA's field-trial and seed services.
• Bureau Veritas: Bureau Veritas provides conformity assessment, testing, inspection, and certification for agriculture, food, chemicals, and environmental products, making it a broad incumbent in regulated testing and quality assurance.
• Eurofins Scientific: Eurofins Scientific's Agroscience Services activities include agricultural testing, field studies, GLP/GEP capabilities, and environmental analysis, creating substantial overlap with SAGEA's regulated research services.

Direct peers

• ADAS: ADAS provides agronomy, crop, soil, and environmental research and advice, including field experimentation, so its agricultural client base and service delivery overlap SAGEA's trial platform.
• STAPHYT: STAPHYT provides agricultural research, field experimentation, and regulatory and technical services to crop-input companies, closely matching SAGEA's efficacy-trial and registration-support model.
• SynTech Research: SynTech Research is a global contract research organization focused on agricultural, environmental, and regulatory studies, including field trials and product registration support, making it a direct operating analogue to SAGEA.

Emerging players

• Fera: Fera provides crop protection, plant health, environmental, and laboratory research services, making it a partial-overlap science and testing peer, although its public-sector orientation may differ.

Others

• R.J. Hill Laboratories: R.J. Hill Laboratories provides agricultural, environmental, and food testing through laboratories, making it an adjacent lab-services peer rather than a full-service field-trial CRO.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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