PRO Notes: August 2007 - GMPro

New positions

Pete Rethans to western region sales manager, Fine Americas, Walnut Creek , Calif.

Russell Clark to market manager; and Robert Best to district sales manager, Netafim USA Landscape and Turf, Fresno, Calif.

John Casey, Rick Miller, Steve Campbell; and John Manes to sales representatives, Yule Tree Farms, Canby , Ore.

Terry Wimberly to sales representative, American Coolair, Jacksonville , Fla.

Mohsen Eskandar to managing director, Myers Industries Inc. Lawn and Garden, Akron , Ohio .

Joan Cone to sales representative, Holtkamp Greenhouses, Nashville .

Karen Westcott to marketing manager; Rick Elkins to product manager; Maureen Thompson to national sales manager; Rick Lewis to marketing and sales support manager; Ken Hutto to technical service representative; and Julie Spagnoli to manager of regulatory, planning and government affairs, FMC Professional Solutions, Philadelphia.

Saumya Verma to sales representative, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis .

Jeff Plank to shipping and site development manager; and Eric Hall to grower, J. Berry Nursery, Grand Saline, Texas .

Susana Vanzie-Canton to researcher, Rancho Tissue Technologies, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

Mike Buchanan to general sales manager, Chemilizer Products Inc., Largo , Fla.

Jose Torres to associate brand manager, TetraPond, Blacksburg , Va.

Scott Armstrong to technical sales manager, BioWorks Inc., Fairport , N.Y.

Ed Thornton to sales representative, Western Pulp Products, Corvallis , Ore.

Art Anderson to general manager, Northwest Shade Trees LLC, Brooks , Ore.

Jay Pearson to sales representative; and Jake Socherman to sales and marketing manager, Sun Gro Horticulture Distribution Inc., Bellevue , Wash.

Honors

Aquascape Inc., St. Charles , Ill. , earned a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification for its headquarters building.

Marvin N. Miller, Ball Horticultural Co., West Chicago , Ill. , received the Horticulture Initiative Award from Southeast Greenhouse Conference.

American Rose Society Production Evaluation Committee endorsed Bayer Advanced All-in-One Rose & Flower Care products.

Sickles Market LLC, Little Silver, N.J., was named Outstanding Retailer of the Year by National Association for the Specialty Food Trade.

Senninger Irrigation, Clermont , Fla. , received two AE50 Awards from Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food and Biological Systems.

Business changes

Alan Cone re-established his consulting business, Prime Cone Inc., Dallas .

VersaScapes, Mount Pleasant , S.C. , began doing business as Wagner Horticulture Solutions.

Pride of Place Plants and HortisHolland, together with Cassy Bright, formed HortisUSA LLC, a breeder representation company in Camarillo , Calif.

ForemostCo Inc., Miami , and C. Raker and Sons Inc., Litchfield , Mich. , formed a relationship that broadens both companies’ product offerings.

Little Giant Pump Co., Oklahoma City , has been renamed Franklin Electric-Water Transfer Systems.

Jackson & Perkins Wholesale named McGregor Plant Sales, Carlsbad , Calif. , and Florexpo, Costa Rica , as producer-distributors for Suntory genetics.

Merck & Co. Inc., Research Triangle Park , N.C. , granted Syngenta, Greensboro , N.C. , exclusive license to manufacturing technology for the insecticide abamectin.

Deaths

Frank R. Bendure, vice president of Fairview Evergreen Nurseries Inc., Fairview , Pa. , died April 15. He was 69.

Lou Brand, retired chairman of John Henry Co., Lansing , Mich. , died April 18. He was 84.

William Flemer III, Princeton Nurseries, Allentown , N.J. , died April 22. He was 85.

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Ken Mills, immediate past president of Irrigation Association, died May 3. He was 65.