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Syngenta Announces North American Lawn & Garden Leadership Appointments

6/3/2010

·         Tim Kroenke is now Head, North American Lawn & Garden Division
·         Keelan Pulliam to lead Flowers Professional Business
·         Scott Reasons to lead Turf & Landscape/Consumer Business
 
Greensboro, N.C., USA, June 3, 2010 – Syngenta has announced several key management appointments for its North American Lawn & Garden leadership team.
 
Tim Kroenke is now head of the company’s North American Lawn & Garden Division. He most recently led the North American Professional Flowers business. His responsibilities will include overall management, and profit and loss for Syngenta’s plant protection, flowers, and growing media businesses throughout the region.
 
Keelan Pulliam is head of the Flowers Professional organization and will oversee management of the businesses that serve the professional greenhouse and nursery industry: 
  • Syngenta Flowers, Inc., the wholesale genetics organization which combines the seed and vegetative genetics for the professional greenhouse and nursery industries under the brands Goldsmith®, Goldfisch®, and Yoder®
  • the ornamental plant protection business, producers of such products as Daconil® and Heritage® fungicides, Barricade® herbicide, Avid® insecticide, and Bonzi® plant growth regulator.
  • Conrad Fafard, Inc., producers of professional growing media and consumer growing media under the Fafard brand,
  • Syngenta Horticultural Services distribution business.
 
Pulliam joined Syngenta in 1979 and has held various leadership positions in Crop Protection and Professional Products. Most recently he was president of Conrad Fafard,Inc.
 
Scott Reasonsis head of the North American  Turf & Landscape/Consumer business and will oversee numerous customer categories for Syngenta , including Golf, Turf & Landscape, Aquatics, Home Care and Consumer Products.
 
Since 1986, Reasons has held various commercial roles at Syngenta, in both Crop Protection and Lawn & Garden. His most recent position was head of marketing for the Turf, Landscape and Consumer businesses.
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The Lawn and Garden businesses at Syngenta combine the company’s diverse technical understanding and broad product portfolios to deliver unique solutions to its customers and enrich the living experiences of the final end-consumer.


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Tom Mentzer
 
Margaret Bell
Syngenta
 
 
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