PRO Notes: August 2008 - GMPro

New positions

Mike Huggett to product development manager, Floranova, United Kingdom.

Nevin McDougall to vice president, U.S. business operations, BASF Crop Protection Division, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Todd Bachman, Bachman’s Inc., St. Paul, Minn., to chairman of the board; and Randy Tagawa, Tagawa Greenhouse Enterprises LLC, Brighton, Colo., to board member, Hortica Insurance and Employee Benefits, Edwardsville, Ill.

Frank Pennington to technical sales representative; and Kurt Nieminen to inside sales and marketing assistant, BioSafe Systems LLC, East Hartford, Conn.

Bill Cunningham to director of marketing; and Pedro Perdoma to director of research and regulatory affairs, Cleary Chemical Corp., Dayton, N.J.

Larry Rutkowski to executive vice president of sales and marketing, Ambius, Buffalo Grove, Ill.

J.T. Kidwell to district sales manager, Netafim USA, Fresno, Calif.

Scott Rhodes to director of product marketing, Aquascape Inc., St. Charles, Ill.

Adam Wright and Brian Giblin to sales representatives, Bayer Environmental Science, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Mark White to technical sales representative, Growth Products Ltd., White Plains, N.Y.

Honors

Grodan B.V, Holland, received the European Ecolabal, an environmental quality mark of the European Union for non-food products and services.

Plantscape Industry Alliance honorees: Victoria Cate, Evergreen Interiors Inc., San Diego, Interiorscape Professional; Donald Wilson, former owner of Plant Care Co., Dallas, Allied Trade Professional; Walter Campbell, who died in 2007, Interior Plantscape Hall of Fame.

Hawaiian Sunshine Nursery, Hilo, was named Hawaii Small Business Exporter of the Year by U.S. Small Business Administration.

Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association honorees: Bob Heffernan, CNLA, Waterbury, Award of Merit; and Darryl Newman, Planters’ Choice Nursery, Newtown, Young Nursery Professional of the Year.

Orchard Supply Hardware, San Jose, Calif., and its public relations agency, PRx Communications Strategists, San Jose, Calif., received the Project of the Year Award from International Public Relations Network.

Business changes

FPM Peat Moss Co., Agawam, Mass., will build a peat processing and mix facility in Manitoba, Canada.

Griffin Greenhouse and Nursery Supplies Inc., Tewksbury, Mass., acquired Progress Growers Supply Co., Ball Ground, Ga.

Riceland Foods Inc.’s PBH Nature’s Media Amendment is listed by Organic Materials Review Institute.

Deaths

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Francis “Jane” Larsen, 22-year customer service representative, Iseli Nursery, Boring, Ore., died May 4. She was 54.

August 2008