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Becker Underwood expands into Chile
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.

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