Ames, Iowa
October 22, 2004
Becker Underwood, a
world leader in biotech specialties for agriculture, seed,
landscaping and turf, today announced it has commenced
commercial operations in Chile through the formation of Becker
Underwood Chile Ltda. The business in Chile further extends
Becker Underwood’s South American activities from Brazil,
Paraguay,
Uruguay, Venezuela, and Argentina and represents an even greater
commitment to its growth in South America. Becker Underwood
Chile has introduced its range of products suited for the local
Chilean market.
“The continued extension into the
South American marketplace is an implementation of our South
American strategy, and we are investing in attending to the
needs of customers in Chile,” says Becker Underwood President
Dr. Peter Innes. “Expanding into Chile is another example of
providing customers with leading products and technologies,”
Innes reports. “Our global production abilities give us the
flexibility to supply our customers quickly and in whatever
formulation they require.”
Becker Underwood Chile LLC will be
led locally by Arsenio de la Torre who has in excess of 20 years
in agribusiness in Chile. “Prior to extending into this market,
we studied the needs of the Chilean market and know that we have
unique products that will bring a lot of value to customers,”
says Becker Underwood South American General Manager Greg
Waibel. “The customers in Chile are tremendously interested in
our comprehensive portfolio of products as they are unique to
the marketplace and are of leading technology.”
According to Becker Underwood CEO,
Roger Underwood, “Becker Underwood continues to expand our
global reach to better serve customers. Our presence through
Becker Underwood Chile is yet another example of our strategy
with our customers as our primary focus. This extension to Chile
follows our opening of Becker Underwood Argentina a year ago
which has been a tremendous success. This is yet another example
of Becker Underwood’s ability to think globally and act
locally.”
Company operations are located in
Ames, Iowa; St. Joseph, Mo.; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;
Littlehampton, U.K.; Somersby, Australia; Caldwell, Idaho;
Curitiba, Brazil; Toulouse, France; Buenos Aires, Argentina and
now Santiago, Chile.
Founded in 1982 in Ames, Iowa,
Becker Underwood is an international supplier of products for
the seed, agriculture, landscape, turf and greenhouse markets.
The company manufacturers and markets a variety of bio-agronomic
and specialty colorant products for turf management,
agriculture, seed treatment, wood mulch, aquaculture, vegetation
management forestry and many other industries. |