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AVD

American Vanguard Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets chemical, biological and biorational products for agricultural, commercial, and consumer uses in the United States and internationally. It synthesizes and formulates chemicals, and ferments and extracts microbial products, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, soil health, plant nutrition, molluscicides, growth regulators, soil fumigants, and biorationals in liquid, powder, and granular forms for crops, turf, ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. The company also markets, sells, and distributes end-use chemical and biological products for crop applications; and distributes products for turf and ornamental markets. It distributes its products through national distribution companies, and buying groups or co-operatives; and through sales offices, sales force executives, sales agents, and wholly owned distributors. American Vanguard Corporation was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.