This month in Agri marketing ... (For Openers).Five Years Ago * DeKalb Genetics Corp., DeKalb, Ill., has determined to pursue a possible sale of the business. "The time has come for the company to consider combining with other business entities to ensure that shareholders receive the maximum value available," said Bruce Bickner, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of DeKalb. * The boards of directors of Harvest States Cooperatives, Falcon Heights Falcon Heights is the name of some places in the United States:
, Minn., and Cenex Inc., Inver Grove Heights Inver Grove Heights, city (1990 pop. 22,477), Dakota co., SE Minn. A suburb of St. Paul, its manufactures include motor-vehicle and aircraft parts, asphalt, feeds, consumer goods, building materials, paper products, and medical equipment. , Minn., have approved a merger of the two organizations to create Cenex Harvest States Cooperative. Ten Years Ago * Michael Adinamis is named vice president of operations for Tribune Entertainment Co., Chicago. * Middleton, Wis.-based Agracetus Inc., a subsidiary of W.R. Grace & Co., forms an agreement with Calgene Inc. to utilize Agracetus technology for developing genetically engineered genetically engineered adjective Recombinant, see there cotton. * Ciba-Geigy Corp., the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the Swiss pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial company, establishes a corporate identity: Ciba. The move, including a new logo, is part of a worldwide program designed to reflect the changing face of Ciba-Geigy. Twenty Years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. Ago * Valmont Financial Corp., Valley, Neb., extends a full line of lease and finance programs to farmers and ranchers acquiring IBM Personal Computers and other computer hardware from the company's ValCom dealerships. * Emory Jones joins the PR division of Fletcher/Mayo/Associates, Atlanta, as senior editor, PR. Jones was Gold Kist Gold Kist NASDAQ: GKIS is a large chicken producing company in the United States south. It was founded in 1933 by D.W. Brooks, a University of Georgia agronomy instructor as the Cotton Producers Association news editor after leaving FarmFutures, Milwaukee, as managing editor. |
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