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Agrium is a major retailer of agricultural products and services in North and South America, a leading global wholesale producer and marketer of all three major agricultural nutrients, and the premier supplier of specialty fertilizers in North America. Agrium produces and markets all three primary groups of nutrients: nitrogen, phosphate and potash, as well as controlled-release fertilizers and micronutrients.
Agrium is the only publicly traded company that is integrated from mining the raw materials for fertilizer production through to selling to growers. We are the largest direct-to-grower agricultural retailer in the United States. We also supply materials that a variety of industries use to produce goods such as mining explosives, household products, pulp and paper, fiberboard and aluminum.
Agrium is incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act. We are headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, and are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol AGU. As of December 31, 2007 Agrium had a market capitalization of more than $11 billion, and had 158 million shares outstanding. Approximately 56 percent of our shareholders are in Canada, 34 percent in the United States, and ten percent in Europe and the rest of the world.
Our Wholesale unit operates in North and South America. We produce, market and distribute crop nutrients for agricultural and industrial customers around the world.
Our Retail unit operates in North and South America, and sells seed, crop protection products, fertilizers and services directly to growers. Our farm retail centres operate under the names Crop Production Services and Western Farm Service in the United States and Agroservicios Pampeanos in Argentina and Chile.
Our Agrium Advanced Technologies unit produces and markets controlled-release nutrients, micronutrients and plant protection products for sale to the agriculture, professional turf and ornamental markets primarily in North America. A variety of corporate functions provide support and services to the three business units. The corporate functions also provide oversight from a functional perspective and coordinate company-wide governance and strategy.
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Our Retail operations, with more than 500 retail farm centers in the U.S., Argentina and Chile, is the largest agricultural retailer in the U.S.
Retail provides farmers with seed, fertilizers, crop protection chemicals and agronomic and application services.
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Agrium is a leading global marketer and producer and distributor of crop nutrients: nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizers, and other agricultural products and services.
From 12 major production facilities in North America and Argentina, Agrium has the capacity to produce, market and distribute close to ten million tonnes of fertilizer products annually. This includes about 6.1 million tonnes of nitrogen, 2.1 million tonnes of potash and 1.3 million tonnes of phosphate. The facilities are among the most modern and efficient in North and South America.
Approximately three million tonnes of strategically located storage capacity enable us to serve our customers during the peak spring and fall application seasons.
The same nutrients that help crops reach their full yield potential are also used in a wide variety of industrial uses. For example, urea is used for the production of resins in the lumber industry, potash for recycling of aluminum and phosphates are used as a retardant material to prevent the spread of forest fires. Approximately fifteen percent of our Wholesale sales are to the industrial market. Sales to this sector tend to be evenly distributed throughout the year, much of it priced on a cost-plus basis, which provides a base to our earnings through the slower agricultural off-season periods.
Wholesale Map - PDF
In addition to the major agricultural and industrial products, we also produce and market controlled release products and micronutrients as part of our Advanced Technologies products offerings. We significantly expanded the depth of our controlled release product line and total sales in this market segment through our recent acquisitions of Nu-Gro and certain fixed assets of Pursell Technologies Inc.
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