The Andersons, Inc.Sector: Consumer Defensive Industry: Food Distribution Employees: 2224
The Andersons, Inc. operates in trade, renewables, and nutrient and industrial sectors in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Egypt, Switzerland, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Trade, Renewables, and Nutrient & Industrial. The Trade segment operates grain elevators; stores commodities; and provides grain marketing, risk management, and origination services, as well as sells commodities, such as corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, ethanol, and corn oil. This segment also engages in the commodity merchandising business, as well as offers logistics for physical commodities, such as whole grains, grain products, feed ingredients, domestic fuel products, and other agricultural commodities. The Renewables segment produces, purchases, and sells ethanol, and co-products; and offers facility operations, risk management, and marketing services to the ethanol plants it invests in and operates. The Nutrient & Industrial segment manufactures, distributes, and retails agricultural and related plant nutrients, liquid industrial products, corncob-based products, pelleted lime and gypsum products, turf fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide products; crop nutrients, crop protection chemicals, and seed products; and provides application and agronomic services to commercial and family farmers. This segment also manufactures and distributes professional lawn care products for golf course and professional turf care markets; and produces corncob-based products for laboratory animal bedding and private-label cat litter, as well as absorbents, blast cleaners, carriers, and polishers. In addition, this segment offers fertilizer and weed, and pest control products; dry and liquid agricultural nutrients, pelleted lime, gypsum, and soil amendments; micronutrients; and industrial products comprising nitrogen reagents, calcium nitrate, deicers, and dust abatement products. The Andersons, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is based in Maumee, Ohio.
