Cultivating Excellence Fact Book 2015–2016

industry participants – united states retail
Top United States Retail Companies – 2015 (1)
(by total sales)
Rank Company
Headquarters
Location
#
States
Served
#
Retail
Outlets
Years in
CropLife
100
%
Crop
Protection
Sales
%
Fertilizer
Sales
%
Seed
Sales
%
Custom
App.
1 Agrium Retail (CPS) Loveland, CO 45 800 (2) 32 38% 44% 14% 4%
2 Helena Chemical Co. Collierville, TN 48 427 31 41% 38% 17% 4%
3 GROWMARK Inc. Bloomington, IL 10 585 29 18% 59% 18% 5%
4 Wilbur-Ellis Co. San Francisco, CA 21 174 30 48% 38% 8% 6%
5 Pinnacle Holdings Memphis, TN 28 186 3 39% 31% 23% 7%
6 CHS
Inver Grove
Heights, MN
16 450 29 25% 54% 16% 5%
7 Simplot Retail Boise, ID 14 90 31 40% 53% 4% 3%
8
Southern States
Cooperative
Richmond, VA 9 134 26 5% 75% 20% 0%
9 MFA Inc. Columbia, MO 5 186 23 21% 57% 17% 5%
10
11
Tennessee Farmers
Cooperative
Aurora Cooperative
Elevator
La Vergne, TN 8 160 24 25% 55% 20% 0%
Aurora, NE 7 75 24 41% 45% 7% 7%
12 Central Valley Ag O'Neill, NE 3 46 12 22% 61% 11% 6%
13
South Dakota
Wheat Growers
Aberdeen, SD 2 40 25 21% 50% 21% 8%
14 Co-Alliance Avon, IN 3 25 16 21% 56% 17% 6%
15 Hefty Seed Co. Baltic, SD 9 34 14 69% 7% 24% 0%
16 The McGregor Co. Colfax, WA 5 44 32 38% 53% 4% 5%
17 Valley Agronomics Rupert, ID 3 14 4 49% 43% 5% 3%
(1) Source: CropLife Magazine, CropLife 100 Report, December 2015
(2) 800 as per CropLife; Agrium has a total of 927 retail outlets (565 farm centers, 12 distribution centers, 289 satellites, 57 terminals and 4 plants).
Note: It is estimated there are approximately 9,000 farm centers in the U.S. There were approximately 25,000 farm centers in the 1980s.
FACT BOOK 2015–2016
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