Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
February 5, 2008
 Plant
Health Care, Inc. (PHC) is pleased to announce that industry
veteran Rick Rice has been hired as Director, Sales & Marketing,
USA Agricultural Sales. Rice has spent most of his career in
U.S. agriculture with experience in cotton and soybean seed and
technology. He joins the sales and marketing team as PHC focuses
on new opportunities, according to Mike Cloutier, Vice President
of U.S. Agricultural Sales for PHC.
“Rick is joining us at a critical time of growth for us," says
Cloutier. "Rick's experience brings us some in-depth industry
perspective. He offers a unique blend of big company/small
company experience that can take PHC where we need to go. We're
very excited about having Rick on board. His addition to the
company is the first of several other new additions which
reflect our company's expansion."
Most recently, Rice has been marketing director for Delta and
Pine Land/Monsanto. Previously, he was director of marketing and
sales for Lawhon Farm Services cotton and soybean product lines.
He also spent several years with Monsanto in Roundup Ready®
marketing, introducing the technology to cotton and managing the
marketing of Roundup and Roundup Ready Soybeans in the South. He
also has worked with AgEvo (a component of Bayer CropScience),
and Elanco (a component of Dow AgroSciences). He has a bachelor
of science degree in agricultural business and economics from
Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. He and his wife,
Maureen, have two sons, Mark and Zack, and live in Collierville,
Tennessee.
Plant Health Care, Inc. is the US-subsidiary of Plant Health
Care, plc, a publicly traded company in the UK with a market
value of approximately $250,000,000. Rice says, "The company
started in 1995 and until 2007, was focused on horticulture,
turf, vegetables and high value crops. We're now adding field
crops—cotton, corn and soybeans—with the acquisition of the
Harpin technology from Eden Bioscience. I see exciting days
ahead of PHC and I'm certainly glad to be part of their team."
PHC develops, manufactures and markets innovative Harpin
Protein-based products (Harp-N-Tek®), which have a unique mode
of action for improving crop production and plant health.
N-Hibit® Gold CST and ProAct™ contain the new generation of
Harpin Protein. Years of extensive research and commercial field
use has led PHC to offer producers a money-back satisfaction
guarantee when they make N-Hibit and/or ProAct part of their
nematode management program.
Plant Health Care, Inc., headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, is
a wholly-owned subsidiary of Plant Health Care plc (AIM:PHC), a
leading provider of natural products for plants and soil. PHC
has operations in the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom,
Spain, and the Netherlands. PHC products are for the landscape,
agriculture and land reclamation industries and are
environmentally beneficial. Through the commercialization of
these products, PHC is capitalizing on current long-term trends
toward natural systems and biological products for plant care
and soil and water management.
ProAct™, Harp-N-Tek®, and N-Hibit® are trademarks and Plant
Health Care, Inc.
Roundup® and Roundup Ready® are registered trademarks of
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