PRO Notes: June 2008 - GMPro

New positions

Lisa Heredia to marketing manager, Floragem, Vista, Calif.

Cindi Coulter to art director; Abby Bonwell to production artist; and Brookley Lind-Olson to media coordinator, Swanson Russell, Lincoln, Neb.

Lindsey Smart to senior major account coordinator; Bill McClure to sales manager; Jay Kelly and Keith Stallings to territory sales representatives; and Todd Bustard to senior manager of logistics, Zelenka Nursery, Grand Haven, Mich.

Joe Burke to business manager for imidacloprid products, Bayer Environmental Science, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Mike Rimland to director of research and development; Charlie Acevedo to vice president of sales and marketing; and Marta Maria Garcia to marketing manager, Costa Farms, Miami.

Dudley Dabbs to Southeast regional sales manager, Fine Americas Inc., Walnut Creek, Calif.

Michael Cade to area sales manager, Selecta First Class, Encinitas, Calif.

Shane Beecher to service/technical support representative, Delta T Solutions, San Marcos, Calif.

Honors

Winston Co. Inc., Tulsa, Okla., won an Addy Award for its redesigned Crystal Clear water gardening product packaging.

Monrovia Growers, Azusa, Calif., was named Vendor of the Year by Armstrong Garden Centers, Glendora, Calif.

Fisher Farms, Gaston, Ore., was named second recipient of the Spring Meadow Nursery Proven Winners ColorChoice Innovation Award.

American Horticultural Society Great American Gardeners Award recipients: Harold Pellett, Landscape Plant Development Center, Chanhassen, Minn., Liberty Hyde Bailey Award; Thomas G. Ranney, North Carolina State University Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, Fletcher, H. Marc Cathey Award; David Salman, Santa Fe Greenhouses, Santa Fe, N.M., Paul Ecke Jr. Commercial Award; Herbert R. Schaal, EDAW/AECOM, San Francisco, Landscape Design Award; Francis X. Flaherty, Flaherty Iron Works, Alexandria, Va., Meritorious Service Award; Irene Virag, freelance garden writer, B.Y. Morrison Communication Award; Renny Reynolds, RENNY: Design for Entertaining, New York City, Frances Jones Poetker Award; Holly Harmar Shimizu, U.S. Botanic Garden, Professional Award; Betty Brown Casey, District of Columbia, Catherine H. Sweeney Award; Mike H.C. Devlin and Valerie R. Frick, Camden Children’s Garden, Camden, N.J., Jane L. Taylor Award; Laura Deeter, Agricultural Technical Institute of Ohio State University, Columbus, Teaching Award; and Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, Lincoln, Urban Beautification Award.

Andy Rogish, Yoder Brothers, Barberton, Ohio, was named an American Society for Quality-certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Associations

New presidents of International Plant Propagators’ Society: Brian Maynard, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Eastern Region; Mike Anderson, Carlton Plants, Dayton, Ore., Western Region; and Patricia Knight, Green Forest Nursery, Perkinston, Miss., Southern Region.

Business changes

John Henry, Lansing, Mich., acquired Great Western Industries, Dallas, and began tag production at its facility in Indianapolis.

Initial Tropical Plants, Buffalo Grove, Ill., changed its name to Ambius.

Skinner Nurseries, Jacksonville, Fla., acquired two former Pike Wholesale Nurseries locations in Alpharetta and Buford, Gal.

Precision Laboratories Inc., Waukegan, Ill., and Agrium Advanced Technologies, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, formed a product alliance to manufacture and market 0-0-20 Turf Fertilizer with 10.6 percent Cascade Plus throughout Canada.

Milestone Agriculture Inc., Apopka, Fla., and DeRoose USA, Apopka, Fla., signed a cooperative agreement for the propagation, production and distribution of several Spathiphyllum varieties.

Deaths

Anne Palmer Tinari, co-owner of Tinari Greenhouses, Huntingdon Valley, Pa., died Feb. 9. She was 95.

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Eugene Freedman, founder of Enesco, died Feb. 20 in Hawaii. He was 82.

June 2008