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Julie Versman, Marketing Director, 530-750-0150 ext 16; jversman@agraquest.com
AgraQuest Appoints David Warman Turf & Ornamental Business Manager - Providing effective biological products to T & O Markets
DAVIS, Calif. (December 12, 2005) – Confirming its ongoing commitment to providing innovative pest management products to new markets, AgraQuest, Inc. announces the appointment of David Warman as its Turf and Ornamental Business Manager. David will oversee all U.S. T&O business, focusing on expanding Rhapsody® Biofungicide in ornamental markets and launching Rhapsody® in the turf market.
AgraQuest’s EPA-approved, OMRI-certified organic Rhapsody offers effective foliar and soil disease control for ornamental and greenhouse crops. Unsurpassed in plant, human, and environmental safety, the popular disease control product is used for the prevention and treatment of both bacterial and fungal diseases.
David comes to AgraQuest from Controlled Solutions, Inc. in Texas, where he developed their U.S. Specialties Market into one of the company’s fastest growing and most profitable units. Prior to Controlled Solutions, David worked within Griffin LLC as Manager of the Turf & Ornamental Business and also as Eastern Division Manager for their Agriculture Products Group. David entered the crop protection business through Ciba Geigy, where he spent 21 years in various Agricultural and T & O related sales, marketing and product management positions. In his new position at AgraQuest, David will report to Chris Coombs – Vice President of Sales & Marketing in North America.
“David is a critical addition to AgraQuest’s management team,” notes Chris Coombs. “David’s extensive sales and marketing experience in T & O channels will be invaluable as we execute growth strategies and deliver on our commitment to provide effective, biological products to these important markets.”
David is a native of Oregon and a graduate of Oregon State. David is located in Ocala, FL.
About AgraQuest
AgraQuest is a biotechnology company that focuses on discovering, developing, manufacturing and marketing effective, safe and environmentally friendly natural pest management products for agricultural, institutional and home markets The company sells Serenade®, Serenade® Garden, Rhapsody®, Sonata® and Ballad® Biofungicides and Biotune® Adjuvant. A bioinsecticide is pending at the EPA. AgraQuest received the Presidential Green Chemistry Award from the EPA for the discovery and commercialization of Serenade Biofungicide. In 2004, AgraQuest received a Red Herring Top 100 Private Company Award and the World Technology Award for the Environment.
Certain matters contained in the press release concerning AgraQuest, Inc. are forward-looking statements which are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties which may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the receipt of EPA and other regulatory approval of the Company’s products, the success of the Company’s products in field trials and the timely development, manufacture and marketing and acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace.