| American Vanguard Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified specialty and agricultural products company. It develops and markets crop protection, turf and ornamental products, and public health insecticides. Its chemicals include insecticides, fungicides, molluscicides, growth regulators, and soil fumigants, which are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular forms. It also offers a line of snail and slug control products used in agriculture; and a deer and rabbit repellant; streptomycin antibiotics used primarily to control Fire Blight; horticultural oil insecticides for aphids, mites, and scale. The company sells its products to the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and nutritional markets in the United States and internationally. American Vanguard Corp. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. |
