PotashCorp is an integrated producer of fertilizer, industrial and animal feed products, producing the three primary plant nutrients of potash, nitrogen and phosphate. Among these, potash is the primary focus of the company’s business, claiming to be the largest potash producer in the world.
PotashCorp’s strategy is based on the need to remain the leader and preferred supplier of potash, nitrogen and phosphate products worldwide. It has a capital spending programme for potash production and is extending its investments in other companies around the world that enhance its position in this key nutrient.
Its nitrogen and phosphate strategies are built around areas of each nutrient where it has the greatest competitive strengths, reducing volatility and lessening the impact of fertilizer cycles. In nitrogen, its ‘advantageous’ natural gas contracts in Trinidad support its strategy. It is increasingly moving away from commodity phosphate fertilizer products into niche markets.
With corporate offices in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Northbrook, Illinois, US, PotashCorp employs approximately 5,301 people and had sales of $9.5bn in 2008.
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Key Personnel
Member: Frederick Blesi
Member: William Doyle
Member: John Estey
Member: Wade Fetzer
Member: Dallas Howe
Member: Alice Laberge
Member: Jeffrey McCaig
Member: Mary Mogford
Member: Paul Schoenhals
Member: E. Robert Stromberg
Member: Keith Martell
Member: Elena Viyella de Paliza
(Updated July 2008)
Contacts
Suite 500
122 – 1st Avenue South
Saskatoon
SK Canada
S7K 7G3
Tel: +1 306 933 8500
Fax: +1 306 933 8877
www.potashcorp.com
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PostashCorp)
Company Structure
PotashCorp claims to be the world's ‘largest fertilizer enterprise’, by capacity, producing the three primary plant nutrients (potash, phosphate and nitrogen). Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan was formed by the Saskatchewan government in 1975 and, over a period of three years, acquired about 40% of Canada's potash output. In 1989, it became a publicly traded corporation independent of the Saskatchewan government. Today, the government no longer has any ownership in the company. PotashCorp is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. All outstanding shares are available to trade each day under the stock symbol POT.
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Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PostashCorp)
Strategy & Financial Highlights
The PotashCorp strategy is based on the need to ‘remain the leader and preferred supplier of potash, nitrogen and phosphate products worldwide’. The company states that on the back of a year of record performance its real focus is about how it can move forward. Its life-giving products continue to grow in importance as a larger percentage of the world’s population has greater wealth and wants more nutritious food. (Edited from annual report and company website). ICIS also provides you with key financial data listed in table form.
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