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Contact: Jake Mortensen, 530-750-0150 x 114, jmortensen@agraquest.com
AgraQuest, Inc. Hires New Sales Manager for Professional Products Segment
DAVIS, Calif. (Nov. 30, 2007) – AgraQuest, Inc., a leading provider of effective and safe pest management and plant health products, announced today that it has hired a new sales manager for its Professional Products segment. Scott Houston will begin representing AgraQuest effective immediately.
"AgraQuest is committed to better serving the Professional Products market and we believe Scott is the right person to help us do that," said Mike Miille, CEO/COO of AgraQuest. "We are very fortunate to have someone of Scott's caliber onboard."
Houston will focus on the U.S. and Canadian turf markets and AgraQuest's flagship fungicide in the segment, RHAPSODY®. He will report directly to Chris Coombs, VP – North America for AgraQuest.
"Throughout his career he has clearly demonstrated very innovative approaches to growing revenue in key market segments," said Coombs. "Scott is a great addition to our team at AgraQuest and we look forward to his many contributions."
Houston joins AgraQuest from BASF where his 20-year tenure most recently included the position of Northern Regional Manager – Professional Products. Houston holds a Master of Business Administration from University of South Florida. He resides in Tallahassee, Florida.
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® fungicides. 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.