AgraQuest Hires Pacific Northwest Regional Sales Manager.DAVIS, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--April 13, 1999-- AgraQuest is pleased to announce the hiring of Jeffrey Perrotti as Pacific Northwest regional sales manager. In anticipation of registration and sales of Serenade serenade [Ital. sera=evening], term used to designate several types of musical composition. Opera and song literature yield numerous examples of the serenade sung or played by a lover at night beneath his beloved's window; outstanding is Deh, vieni alla finestra from Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the late 18th cent. the serenade became a light instrumental suite, whose movements were numerous and short and usually included a march and a minuet.(tm), AgraQuest's new proprietary biological fungicide fun , AgraQuest is hiring sales staff in key growing regions for specialty crops such as apples, pears, grapes and vegetables.  gi·cid al (-s dl) adj.Perrotti came to AgraQuest from Cascade Ag Services, where he was wholesale manager, Pacific Northwest. Before Cascade, he was branch manager, Helena Chemical Co. for 10 years. Before becoming branch manager, he was sales representative, having established a Northwest presence for Helena. Perrotti has a B.S. in horticulture nursery management from Washington State University, Pullman. AgraQuest discovered Serenade through its targeted,proprietary screening system, less than a year after the 1995 founding of the company. Since then, the company moved the product through the commercial development process in unprecedented record time. In over 200 field trials in 1998 and 1999 using commercial conditions and equipment, Serenade showed comparable or improved efficacy over current fungicide standards against a range of important vine, fruit and vegetable diseases, such as bacterial blights, scab scab (skab) 1. the crust of a superficial sore. 2. to become covered with a crust or scab. scab (sk  b)n. , powdery mildews mildew /mil·dew/ (mil´doo) colloquialism for any superficial fungous growth on plants or any organic material. and Botrytis bunch rot/gray mold. Over $1 billion are spent annually to control these diseases worldwide. "We are pleased that AgraQuest has attracted such a qualified individual for this key position," said Kurt Schwartau, AgraQuest's vice president of sales and marketing. AgraQuest discovers, develops and markets effective, environmentally friendly and safe natural products for farm, home and public health pest management. AgraQuest is backed by several influential growers and agribusinesses and internationally recognized venture capital organizations. Besides its biofungicide Serenade, AgraQuest has a full pipeline of other bioinsecticide and biofungicide product candidates for agriculture. The company is also marketing LAGINEX(R), an effective and environmentally friendly product for controlling mosquito larvae in water. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion