Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
April 2, 2008
 Plant
Health Care, Inc. (PHC) is pleased to announce the promotion
of Dr. Greg Lewis to Vice President-Corporate Development. In
this position, Lewis' organization will be responsible for
identifying and acquiring new technologies, product development
and registrations, together with testing and licensing
activities for PHC. Lewis was the key architect in PHC's
strategic partnering agreements with Bayer CropScience AG and
Monsanto Company.
“I was formerly involved in business development with a focus on
out-licensing arrangements for existing PHC technologies," Lewis
says. "Now, I'm also involved in the acquisition of new
technologies and new products. I will work with domestic and
international corporations as well as small companies and
universities here and abroad.
"PHC is the leader in plant health products. I have seen
dramatic changes in PHC in the past two years; the company has
transitioned from simply marketing products and technologies to
now, setting up major supply arrangements as well as licensing
technologies to global leaders in the agricultural sector,
including, for example, Bayer CropScience and Monsanto.
"We already have new products that we're introducing here in the
U.S. For example, Employ™ will be available for vegetables in
2008. We also just registered Myconate®, our mycorrhizal
stimulant for vegetables in California; 49 of the 50 US states
now approve Myconate. We have an important agreement with Bayer
CropScience for Myconate in row crops and a similar arrangement
with Monsanto for harpin seed treatments, also in row crops.
Additionally, we're growing the R&D side so we can market these
same products in vegetables and other important crop sectors.
These are absolutely exciting times to be working with PHC."
PHC started in 1995 and until 2007, was focused on horticulture,
turf, vegetables and high value crops. It is now adding field
crops—cotton, corn and soybeans—plus cereals with the
acquisition of Myconate® and the Harpin technologies. PHC
develops, manufactures and markets innovative Harpin
Protein-based products (Harp-N-Tek®), which have a unique mode
of action for improving crop production and plant health. For
example, N-Hibit® Gold CST and ProAct™ contain the new
generation of Harpin Protein.
Plant Health Care, Inc., headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, is
a wholly owned subsidiary of Plant Health Care plc (AIM:PHC), a
leading provider of natural products for plants and soil. PHC
has operations in the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom,
Spain, and the Netherlands. PHC products are for the landscape,
agriculture horticulture and land reclamation industries and are
environmentally beneficial. Through the commercialization of
these products, PHC is capitalizing on current long-term trends
toward natural systems and biological products for plant care
and soil and water management.
Myconate®, ProAct™, Harp-N-Tek®, N-Hibit®, PHC and Plant Health
Care, Inc. are trademarks of Plant Health Care, Inc. |
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