Notables: July 2007 - Nursery Management & Production

New positions

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.