Investments

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Investments

Investments

4. Investments

Investments consisted of the following as of the dates indicated:

(in millions)	June 30, 2022		December 31, 2021
Equity investments	$	22	$	16
Equity method investments		109		104
Marketable securities		4		12
Total investments	$	135	$	132

Amyris Joint Venture

On June 1, 2021, Ingredion entered into an agreement with Amyris, Inc. (“Amyris”) for certain exclusive commercialization rights to Amyris’s rebaudioside M by fermentation product, the exclusive licensing of the product’s manufacturing technology and a 31 percent ownership stake in a joint venture for the products (the “Amyris joint venture”). In exchange, we contributed $28 million of total consideration, which included $10 million of cash, as well as non-exclusive intellectual property licenses and other consideration valued at $18 million. The transaction resulted in an $8 million gain recorded in Other operating (income) during the three months ended June 30, 2021, which included $18 million related to the non-exclusive intellectual property licenses, partly offset by the $10 million cash payment. Beginning June 1, 2021, Ingredion accounts for the investment under the equity method.

Argentina Joint Venture

On February 12, 2021, Ingredion entered into an agreement with an affiliate of Grupo Arcor, an Argentine food company, to establish Ingrear Holding S.A. (the “Argentina joint venture”), a joint venture to operate five manufacturing facilities in Argentina to sell value-added ingredients to customers in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. On August 2, 2021, Ingredion and Grupo Arcor completed all closing conditions, pending customary antitrust review, to combine the manufacturing facilities, finalize the transaction and formally establish the Argentina joint venture, which is managed by a jointly appointed team of executives and is accounted for under the equity method.

We exchanged certain assets and liabilities with a fair value of $71 million from our Argentina, Chile and Uruguay operations for 49 percent of the outstanding shares of the Argentina joint venture valued at $64 million, as well as $7 million of other consideration, including cash, from Grupo Arcor as of August 2, 2021. The transaction also resulted in an impairment charge for the transferred assets and liabilities more fully described in Note 5.

Beginning on the dates Ingredion entered into the agreements for equity method investees, our share of income from them is included in Other operating (income). Ingredion incurred an insignificant amount of pre-tax acquisition and integration costs during the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, and $1 million of pre-tax acquisition and integration costs during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, related to the acquisition and integration of the Amyris and Argentina joint ventures.