Willowood Forms USA Subsidiary With Former AgValue President
28 January 2010 ROSEBURG, Oregon, US – Willowood Limited of Hong Kong announced its agreement with US-based AgValue former President and CEO Brian Heinze to form the US-based company Willowood USA. The company — which will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Willowood Limited of Hong Kong, China — will develop, manufacture and market post-patent horticultural crop protection chemicals for the agriculture industry. Willowood USA will market its products through traditional distributors and retailers.The company will start by providing the herbicides ethofumesate, glyphosate, oxyfluorfen, and pronamide; and fungicides propiconazole and tebuconaxole to wholesale distributors.
Vijay Mundhra – director, Willowood Limited says: “Mr. Heinze is the former co-founder, President and CEO of AgValue, and thus brings with him many years of industry experience and expertise related to the development, registration, production and marketing of proven post-patent chemistry. We are very excited about this new opportunity to expand and grow our company in the United States.”
Heinze states “Our primary focus is the high value horticultural markets that include all the crops outside corn, cereals, cotton and soybeans. We will consider development of products for the primary crop segments, where opportunities exist.”
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