People: our primary asset at Wilbur-Ellis company.

For nearly 90 years, Wilbur-Ellis Company's industry leadership has been built on just one thing: the strength of our people.

Wilbur-Ellis is one of the largest privately owned companies in the world. We take pride in our financial strength and in our multinational of marketing and distribution offices formulation facilities, retail centers and warehouses strategically located throughout North America and the Pacific Rim.

Our three divisions--Agribusiness, Feed, and Connell Brothers Co.,--have earned worldwide reputations for supplying top-quality agricultural and industrial ingredients, and assisting our suppliers and customers with complete supply chain management.

Our goal is to help our customers and suppliers develop timely and innovative solutions to the challenges they face. Our employees do this with a tremendous entrepreneurial spirit, and a keen sense of responsibility and integrity, in a corporate culture that highly values empowerment and local initiative.

From our strong management to the local people on the ground, our employees are the engine of our company. On a corporate level, Wilbur-Ellis provides centralized resources, collective intelligence and support to those in our offices around the world.

But our employees--who often live and work side-by-side with our customers and suppliers--are endowed with the responsibility of taking care of our customers and their businesses, in ways that make sense to their unique situations. Our employees are our on-the-ground decision makers; they are in tune to our partners' needs, and are best qualified to meet their challenges.

As a result, we heavily invest in our people with comprehensive approaches --including training, development and compensation--to ensure that we keep and attract the best and brightest workforce.

It is only in this way that Wilbur-Ellis, and its customers and suppliers, can benefit from our organization's collective talent and intelligence. Through our people's extensive product knowledge and expertise, we can actively examine market opportunities and address the challenges presented to us.

People make our business; they are our primary asset. Within their efforts lies the foundation for a successful future.

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FAST FACTS

Founded: 1921

Headquarters: 345 California Street, 27th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104

Phone: 415-772-4000

E-mail: contactus@wilburellis.com

Web site: www.wilburellis.com

Number of Employees: 2,500

Employment Opportunities: hrdept@wilburellis.com

THREE BUSINESSES, ONE COMPANY

Agribusiness Division provides advanced crop protection technology and is one of the largest marketers and distributors of agricultural products in the U.S.:

* Full crop protection services

* Seed treatment and technology

* Vegetation management

* Forestry

* Turf grass agronomy

* Nursery and greenhouse

Feed Division provides feedstuffs to meet the needs of dairy, beef, and poultry producers, feed mills, international trading companies, and industries:

* Marketing and distribution

* Forage

* Animal nutrition

Connell Bros. Co. Division is one of the largest and most highly respected international marketers and distributors of industrial ingredients, minerals and food ingredients in the Pacific Rim."

* Single-source specialty chemicals and food ingredients in Asia