Background and Corporate Structure
The Company - A Brief Background
Planters Products, Inc. was established in 1963 as a multinational corporation called Esso Standard Fertilizer and Agricultural Chemical Company. In 1970, it was purchased by the Sugar Producers Cooperative Marketing Association - the country's largest cooperative of sugar planters, and renamed Planters Products, Incorporated.
The main business of Planters Products, Inc., is the manufacturing/production, trading and marketing of agro-chemical products. At present, the company has seventeen (17) brands of crop protection chemicals consisting of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and rodenticides.
PPI's agricultural products are sold throughout the archipelago through a network of 76 marketing farm specialists and 62 distributors - supplying its products to dealers, outlets and special accounts. To help keep the prices of farm inputs affordable, PPI keeps sales and marketing expenses within reasonable levels and sells its products at reduced cost.