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Jeffrey Stafford
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Agrium's Retail Arm Continues to Serve as a Buffer for Volatile Fertilizer Business in Third Quarter

In the third quarter, Agrium's relatively stalwart retail business continued to serve as a buffer for weakness in the fertilizer production business. The more-consistent retail arm has produced EBITDA of about $890 million through the first nine months of the year compared with about $835 million in the same 2015 period. This 7% growth comes amid a year when crop prices remained depressed and fertilizer prices plummeted. We think worries expressed by some investors that the retail profits would ...
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Agrium Inc.

Agriumis a retailer of agricultural products and services in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay and a producer and wholesale marketer of nutrients for agricultural and industrial markets. Co. reported its business through two business units, Retail, which operates in North and South America and Australia, providing crop inputs and services directly to farmers; and Wholesale, which operates in North and South America and Europe, and produces, markets and distributes all major crop nutrients for agricultural and industrial customers both domestically and around the world.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Jeffrey Stafford

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