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BWI Companies, Inc. was founded in 1958 by Bob and Betty Bunch as a retail seed store in Texarkana, Texas. The company began wholesale operations in 1972 and has since expanded to a total of 14 locations, including 8 full line distribution centers across the Mid-south and Southeastern United States.

BWI currently distributes lawn and garden products, horticultural products, and turf products to garden centers, farm & feed stores, hardware stores, grocery, regional multi-store outlets, greenhouse growers, nursery growers, landscapers, lawn & landcare companies, golf courses and other related outlets.

BWI has a field sales staff over 125 strong and makes timely deliveries on its company-owned fleet. With over 600 employees company-wide, BWI remains a strong and viable supplier in the marketplace. With second generation leadership provided by co-presidents and CEO’s, Robert and Jim Bunch, BWI will continue to be built on providing its customers with TopNotch service and quality products at competitive values by professional people.

Environmental Seed Producers has been supplying high quality bulk wildflower seed, dazzling wildflower seed mixtures and reliable easy-care garden flower seed since 1974.

We are a wholesale supplier to retail-oriented seed companies and to large area landscaping users such as Golf Courses and State Departments of Transportation.

ESP is also a member of the Safe Seed Project and supports its mission: We pledge that we do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds and plants.

Nufarm Limited is one of the world's leading crop protection and specialist seeds companies. We produce products to help farmers protect their crops against damage caused by weeds, pests and disease.

With manufacturing and marketing operations based in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the Americas, Nufarm employs more than 3,400 people, all of whom make a vital contribution to the company's reputation for quality products, innovation and first class marketing and technical support.

Nufarm is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (symbol NUF) and its head office is located at Laverton in Melbourne.

Nufarm was established in Melbourne, Australia in the mid 1950s. Founder, Max Fremder, began selling phenoxy herbicides to professional spray applicators in regional Victoria and quickly established a reputation for excellent customer service and good quality products.

The company moved to its present head office location at Laverton North in 1972, with the corporate headquarters located adjacent to Nufarm's largest manufacturing facility.

From the mid 1980s until early 2000, Nufarm was a subsidiary of New Zealand based Fernz Corporation. The Nufarm crop protection business continued to grow and expand during that period, with a number of overseas locations established throughout the 1990s.

In 2000, Fernz migrated the incorporation of the company from New Zealand to Australia and changed the group's name to Nufarm Limited. Since that time, the company has focused on building a global platform for its core crop protection business and has divested various industrial and specialty chemical businesses.

Various acquisitions and solid organic growth have seen the business rapidly expand. Nufarm is now ranked the eighth largest crop protection company in the world, with a clear leadership position in Australia and substantial operations in North and South America, Europe, New Zealand and Asia.