People in the News

New Positions
Tom McCarter Jr. to regional sales manager for the Southeastern U.S. at OHP.

Janet Curry to national key accounts manager and Daniel “Danny” Brooks to eastern technical sales manager, Ball Horticultural Company and Daniels Plant Food.

John Katlen to sales engineer, Anita Silvestro to IT support, Dino Trinetti to operations manager, Enrico Varricchio to chief financial officer and Kim Eger to  vice president of retail lawn and garden sales at Garick LLC.

Jason Nelson to portfolio marketing leader for the Turf & Ornamental business division, Dow AgroSciences and Lee Conway to district sales manager for the Eastern Turf & Ornamental sales district.

Business News
Valent Professional Products is offering its 2011 Early Order Program (EOP). From Sept. 1-Nov. 30, 2010, ornamental growers, lawn care operators and arborists can enjoy major savings when choosing from Valent Professional Products’ including new Adorn fungicide, Arena insecticide, BroadStar herbicide, Overture insecticide, Safari insecticide, SureGuard herbicide, Tourney fungicide and others.

Weather Central, a global leader in weather information delivery, has been selected as the new worldwide provider of weather products by NDrive Navigation Systems, SA. NDrive provides navigation services to mobile platforms around the world. Under the agreement, NDrive will integrate real-time Weather Central location-based weather services with NDrive navigation software distributed in more than 40 countries for delivery on Apple, Android, Linux, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.

Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, was named a Global Cleantech 100 company by the Cleantech Group, providers of leading global market research, events and advisory services for the cleantech industry. The Global Cleantech 100 highlights the most promising private clean technology companies from all around the world. Ostara also was recognized by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen Silicon Valley Top 100 winners.

Plantex brand water soluble fertilizer will now publish official product labels with both English and Spanish language content.