Notables: February 2008 - Nursery Management & Production

New positions

Chris Souter to sales manager/territory service representative; Keith Hurst to Lowe’s customer service manager; Ben Walburg to major account coordinator; and Christina David to customer service representative, Zelenka Nursery, Grand Haven, Mich.Phil Key to director of landscape management operations; and Mike Lubitz to controller, Ruppert Nurseries, Laytonsville, Md.

Natalia Hamill to brand manager for seed and perennials; and Mark Seguin to brand manager for vegetative products, Fischer USA, Boulder, Colo.

Andy Seckinger to marketing manager; Dave Barcel to senior technical manager; Jared Lee to regional sales manager; and Christina Lindstedt to special projects manager, OHP Inc., Mainland, Pa.

Valerie Berger to director of special products, Berger Peat Moss Ltd., Saint-Modeste, Quebec, Canada.

Chuck Gruber to Charles Gruber to president, Cannon Equipment, Rosemount, Minn.

Greg Hayslip to sales manager, Chemilizer Products Inc., Largo, Fla.

Vera Gasparini to area sales manager, Quali-Pro, Raleigh, N.C.

Matthew Needham to regional technical sales manager, BioWorks, Victor, N.Y.

Eric “Barner” Jones to technical sales representative, BioSafe Systems LLC, East Hartford, Conn.

Honors

Raymond Bell, Bell’s Garden Center, West Islip, N.Y., was named Man of the Year by Long Island Nursery and Landscape Association.

Hermann Engelmann Greenhouses, Apopka, Fla., received the Award of Distinction from ECGC Distributors Ltd.

Associations

New officers of Long Island Nursery and Landscape Association: Sal Masullo, Ireland-Gannon Associates, East Norwich, N.Y., president; Sherry Marsisco, Dodds and Eder, Oyster Bay, N.Y., first vice president; Bud Nestler, Princeton Nurseries, Allentown, N.J., second vice president; and Dwight Andrews, Dwight Andrews Landscape Design, Bay Shore, N.Y., secretary-treasurer.

Business changes

OHP Inc., Mainland, Pa., will market Troy Biosciences Inc.’s Naturalis-O insecticide in the greenhouse and nursery markets.

Lawn Grips LLC, Lake Oswego, Ore., appointed Deshe Itzhar exclusive distributor in Israel.

Hort Couture, Daniels, W.Va., added Blooming Nursery, Cornelius, Ore., to its grower network.

Doosan Infracore, Suwanee, Ga., acquired Bobcat Utility Equipment and Attachments from Ingersoll Rand Co.

LidoChem Inc. Performance Nutrition Division, Hazlet, N.J., expanded into southeast regional greenhouse, nursery and agriculture markets.

Griffin Greenhouse and Nursery Supplies, Tewksbury, Mass., acquired Sonne-Gro Greenhouse Supply Co., Knoxville, Tenn.

S&G Flowers was renamed Syngenta Horticultural Services; Fisher USA will be renamed Syngenta Flowers Inc.

Deaths

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Frank Frisella, Frisella Nursery, Florissant, Mo., died Oct. 31. He was 88.

Floyd Reese Trammel, Tram-Tex Nursery Inc., Tyler, Texas, died Nov. 21. He was 67.