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Sure-Gro Inc. Company Profile Sure-Gro is engaged in making and distributing packaged consumer lawn and garden products. It makes fertilizer, grass seed, pest-control, and horticultural products for consumer and commercial use. The company's consumer brands include Green Earth, Pickseed, Plant-Prod, So-Green, and Wilson. Set up at the end of 2007 when Spectrum Brands sold its Canadian consumer products business to private investment group RoyCap Merchant Banking and Clarke Inc., the company quickly went about building its business through two acquisitions the following year. Those two businesses produce soil, fertilizers, and packaging products in Canada.
Syngenta AG, an agribusiness company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of a range of products designed to improve crop yields and food quality worldwide. It operates in three segments: Crop Protection, Seeds, and Business Development. The Crop Protection segment offers herbicides primarily for corn, cereals, soybean, and rice; fungicides for cereals, fruits, grapes, rice, soybean, and vegetables; insecticides for fruits, vegetables, and field crops; seed care primarily in corn, soybean, cereals, and cotton; and professional products, such as products for public health and products for turf and ornamentals. The company markets these products through independent distributors and dealers, agricultural consultants, and growers. The Seeds segment develops, produces, and markets seeds and plants based on advanced genetics and related technologies. This segment offers approximately 200 product lines and approximately 6,000 varieties, including vegetables, flowers, corn, soybean, sugar beet, and sunflower. The company markets these products worldwide primarily under NK, Golden Harvest, Garst, Hilleshog, S&G, Rogers, Zeraim Gedera, and Fischer brand names. The Business Development segment offers a sugar beet suitable for cultivation in tropical climates, such as India. It also has various products under development, including VipCot cotton for improved resistance to insects; and amylase corn for use in the production of bio ethanol. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Syngenta AG operates independently of Novartis AG and AstraZeneca plc as of November 13, 2000.
Plagues of locusts, weevils, or any other kind of crop-destroying bugs are no match for Syngenta Crop Protection. The subsidiary of Syngenta AG, manufactures more than 130 products (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments) used by farmers and pest control operators to control insects, crop diseases, and weeds. The company operates manufacturing and development facilities in the US. Its agrochemical products are used to protect all manner of crops from corn and soybeans to cotton and peanuts. Syngenta's brands include Callisto, Omega, Actara, Helix, and Ridomil Gold.
Tata Chemicals Limited Company Profile At one time salt drove the world's commerce; it still makes up a good bit of the business at Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL). Tata Salt owns a more than 40% share in India's branded salt market, and the company's soda ash business is also tops in the country, controlling nearly a third of India's market. Tata Chemicals divides its business in two segments: Inorganic Chemicals (soda ash, salt, and caustic soda) and Fertilizers (primarily urea and phsophatic fertilizers). A member of the Tata Group, the company operates India's largest inorganic chemical complex in Mithapur. TCL's products end up in such diverse products as salt licks for cattle, fertilizers, cement, glass, processed steel, and detergents.
Terra Industries Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and marketing of nitrogen and methanol products for agricultural and industrial markets in North America and the United Kingdom. The company offers fertilizers, such as anhydrous ammonia, urea ammonium nitrate solutions, ammonium nitrate, and urea, as well as nitric acid, carbon dioxide, and dinitrogen tetroxide. It sells its products to national agricultural retail chains, farm cooperatives, independent dealers, and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa.
Turns out that not all dirt is created equal. Tetra Micronutrients produces mineral additives that make bad dirt better. Its zinc and manganese micronutrients are completely water-soluble, which is important in actually getting the micronutrients to the plants where they improve plant nutrition and the health of animals that eat the plants. The company is based in Texas, has its manufacturing facility in Nebraska, and its sales force is spread throughout the US and into Mexico and Canada.
Thai Central Chemical's (TCC) business is coming up roses. The company is a leading producer of compound fertilizers. TCC supplies roughly 1.2 million metric tons of fertilizer a year to the Thai agricultural market via two domestic production plants. Its products facilitate the growth of rice, rubber plants, palm, fruit, vegetables, and flowers; its Ox Brand fertilizer is especially popular among Thai farmers. TCC subsidiaries are additionally engaged in the production of pesticides, basic chemicals, textile chemicals, solvents, and plastic products. The company was established in 1973.
The Mosaic Company engages in the production and marketing of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients for the agriculture industry in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Phosphates, Potash, and Offshore. The Phosphates segment produces phosphate crop nutrients for use in crop nutrients and feed phosphate for animal feed ingredients. The Potash segment produces and sells potash for use as fertilizers and animal feed ingredients, as well as in industrial applications. Potash is also used for de-icing and as a water softener regenerant. The Offshore segment produces and/or markets phosphate-, potash-, and nitrogen-based crop nutrients and animal feed ingredients, as well as operates sales offices, crop nutrient blending and bagging facilities, port terminals, and warehouses. The Mosaic Company sells its products primarily to wholesale distributors, retail chains, cooperatives, independent retailers, and national accounts. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota. The Mosaic Company is a subsidiary of Cargill, Incorporated.
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of lawn and garden care products in North America and the European Union. The company sells a line of granular lawn fertilizer and combination products, including fertilizer and crabgrass control, weed control, or pest control products; plant foods; and growing media products for indoor and outdoor uses, as well as grass seed products for the consumer and the professional users. It also offers weed control, indoor and outdoor pest control, and plant disease control products; wild bird food; and lawn spreaders. In addition, the company sells professional products, such as controlled-release fertilizers, water-soluble fertilizers, pesticide products, and wetting agents to commercial nurseries, greenhouses, and specialty crop growers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and the Far East. Further, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company offers residential lawn care, lawn aeration, tree and shrub care, and external pest control services consisting primarily of fertilizer, weed control, pest control, and disease control applications. Additionally, it provides outdoor living and gardening lifestyle products, which include outdoor furniture, pottery, garden tools, gardening containers, and live goods through retail stores, catalog and Internet sales, and other trade and wholesale relationships. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Companys customers include home improvement centers, mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, hardware chains, independent hardware stores, nurseries, garden centers, food and drug stores, commercial nurseries and greenhouses, and specialty crop growers. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in Marysville, Ohio.
Trans-Resources, Inc. Company Profile Better gardening through chemicals. Through five subsidiaries, Trans-Resources, Inc. (TRI) makes specialty plant nutrients as well as industrial and organic chemicals for businesses worldwide. Through Haifa Chemicals, TRI is the world's largest producer of potassium nitrate, a specialized growth nutrient for produce and tobacco; it controls about half of the world market. Haifa Chemicals also produces other fertilizers and food additives. The unit's products are marketed under the Multi-K and Multicote brands. Other TRI subsidiaries make water-soluble and liquid-starter fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, horticulture supplies, and irrigation equipment. Chairman Arie Genger and family own the company.
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