Univar Canada
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Agricultural and Industrial Chemical distribution |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Founder(s) | George Van Waters and Nat S. Rogers |
| Headquarters | Richmond, BC, Canada |
| Number of locations | 25[1] |
| Key people | Randy Craddock, President |
| Revenue | $1.3 billion CAD (2009)[1] |
| Employees | 690[1] |
| Parent | Univar Inc. |
| Divisions | Industrical Agricultural Feed |
| Subsidiaries | Fort Storage True North Specialty Products |
| Website | univarcanada.com |
Univar Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Univar and one of the largest industrial and agricultural chemical distributors in Canada. Founded in 1950, its corporate headquarters are located in Richmond, British Columbia.
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[edit] Divisions
[edit] Industrial
The Industrial Division offers a wide range of chemical products from many of the world's top manufacturers to customers in many different industries, including chemical manufacturing, food and beverage, mining, oil and gas production, pest control, and pharmaceutical.
The Industrial division has 20 locations across Canada, including Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Dartmouth, and St. John's.[1]
[edit] Agricultural
The Agricultural Division focuses on the agriculture industry exclusively and is a distributor of various types of seed, fertilizers, pesticides, and other farm chemicals to independent retailers. Univar Canada is one of Canada's largest dealers for several leading companies in the industry, including Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Agrium, Becker Underwood, BASF, and Syngenta. Its operations are based out of Winnipeg; other locations include Brandon, Saskatoon, Regina, Lacombe, and Coaldale. While it focuses heavily on the prairie region, the Agricultural division also has locations in British Columbia (Abbotsford and Kelowna) and Ontario (Guelph).[1]
[edit] Feed
The Feed Division offers a wide variety of specialty premix livestock feed products and premium feed ingredients. This division operates in the prairie provinces and British Columbia only.[1]
[edit] Subsidiaries
Fort Storage Warehousing and Distribution provides third party warehousing and logistical services to clients as well as support to Univar. Fort Storage has warehouses in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Airdrie, and Guelph.[2] True North Specialty Products, which is based in Winnipeg and Guelph, sells forestry management and vegetation control products to customers nationwide.[3]
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