People and Events

New Positions
Chris Olsen to FX Luminaire sales team, Hunter Industries, San Marcos, Calif.
 
Jeff Novak to vice president marketing and innovation, Agrium Advanced Technologies, Loveland, Colo.
 
Michael Boucher to chief financial officer and senior director of finance, Kioti Tractor, Wendell, N.C.
 
Ralph Gessner to vice president/general manager, Neptune Chemical  Pump Co., Lansdale, Pa.
 
Tommy Bowles to senior account executive, Hortica Insurance & Employee Benefits, Edwardsville, Ill.
 
Karen Kennedy to vice president of sales, ValleyCrest Landscape Companies, Calabasas, Calif.
 
Boris B. Aust to CFO, Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Lowell, Ore.
 
Terri Wright to south central regional sales manager; Art Cockett to northeast regional sales manager; Jim Sprole, Brian Groenewold, Richard Wendelken, Lonzo Jonhson and Ron Harnist to retail sales specialists; Brenda Adcock and Bernardo Szymczak to retail merchandising specialists, Bonide Products, Oriskany, N.Y.
 
Brad Blaes to sales development manager, The Pinery, Escondido, Calif.
 
Claudia West to ecological sales representative, North Creek Nurseries, Landenberg, Pa. 
 
Tim Kroenke to head of North American Lawn & Garden division; Keelan Pulliam to head of Flowers Professional Business; Scott Reasons to head of Turn & Landscape/Consumer Business, Syngenta, Greensboro, N.C.

Associations
Richard Clark, Clark Farms, Wakefield, R.I., to president; Robin Struck, D.R. Struck Landscape Nursery, Winthrop, Maine, to vice president/treasurer; Leslie van Berkum, Van Berkum Nursey, Deerfield, N.H., to past president; Peter House, East Haven Landscape Products, East Haven, Conn., Ed Bemis, Bemis Farms Nursery, Spencer, Mass., and Carol Huntington, to directors, New England Nursery Association.

Business Changes
John Deere established John Deere Insurance Company. The newly formed company is still subject to federal regulatory approval. John Deere also opened its new manufacturing and parts distribution facility in Domodedovo, Russia.
 
Carol Huntington left her position of 25 years as marketing manager, Pleasant View Gardens, Loudon, N.H.