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Contact: Jake Mortensen, 530-750-0150 x 114, jmortensen@agraquest.com
AgraQuest Inc. Hires Sales Manager for Great Lakes, Midwest and Eastern Canada
DAVIS, Calif. (Feb. 29, 2008) – AgraQuest, Inc., a leading innovator in is pleased to announce that Kent Taylor, C.C.A., has joined its agriculture sales team as the Regional Sales Manager for the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Eastern Canada.
"The Midwest and Eastern Canadian region figures prominently in AgraQuest's growth strategy," Chris Coombs, V.P. North America for AgraQuest. "Kent brings the background, understanding of grower needs in the area, and drive that AgraQuest will need to be successful in this market."
Joining AgraQuest with more than 20 years of experience in the agri-chemical business, Taylor most recently worked for the Hamilton Farm Bureau in Hamilton, MI, as a crop consultant and sales representative, where he marketed fertilizer, chemicals and seed to specialty growers. His background also includes positions at Cerexagri, Inc. and Helena Chemical Co. as a sales manager. Taylor recently received his license as a Certified Crop Advisor.
"I'm excited to be working for AgraQuest. I like its products and appreciate the technology used; working to reduce the chemical load on soil is a key topic among many growers I've been working with," said Taylor.
In his spare time, Taylor enjoys keeping horses, snowshoeing, sailing and hunting. He resides in Fennville, Michigan.
About AgraQuest
AgraQuest is a biotechnology company that focuses on 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. The company's headquarters are located in Davis, California.
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.