| ANDE Description: The Andersons, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the grain, ethanol, plant nutrient, railcar leasing, turf and cob products, and retailing businesses in the United States and internationally. It operates through five segments: Grain, Ethanol, Rail, Plant Nutrient, and Retail. The Grain segment operates grain elevators; stores grains; and provides grain marketing, risk management, and corn origination services. The Ethanol segment purchases and sells ethanol; and offers facility operations, risk management, and ethanol and corn oil marketing services to the ethanol plants. The Rail segment leases, sells, and repairs various types of railcars, locomotives, and barges; provides fleet management services to private railcar owners; and invests in short-line railroad, as well as offers metal fabrication services. The Plant Nutrient segment manufactures, distributes, and retails agricultural and related plant nutrients, corncob-based products, and pelleted lime and gypsum products; and crop nutrients, crop protection chemicals, and seed products, as well as provides application and agronomic services to commercial and family farmers. This segment also offers warehousing, packaging, and manufacturing services to nutrient producers and other distributors; and manufactures and distributes nitrogen reagents for air pollution control systems. In addition, this segment produces professional turf care products for golf course and turf care markets; and fertilizer and control products to merchandisers, independent retailers, and other lawn fertilizer manufacturers, as well as provides contract manufacturing of fertilizer and control products. The Retail segment operates The Andersons retail stores; The Andersons Market, a specialty food store; a distribution center; and a lawn and garden equipment sales and service facility. The Andersons, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Maumee, Ohio. |
