abstract
| - GROWMARK is a regional cooperative with annual sales of $6.7 billion (FY 2008 data) providing agriculture-related products and services and grain marketing in the Midwest and Ontario, Canada. FS brand farm supplies and related services are also marketed to farmers in the northeastern United States and by GROWMARK subsidiaries. Additional information is available at www.growmark.com Headquartered in Bloomington, Ill., GROWMARK strives to bring its members the best possible products complemented by optimal service. GROWMARKâs first predecessor company was established in 1927. FS is its flagship brand, marketing by local members. . The GROWMARK System employs more than 6,000 individuals and serves more than 250,000 farmers through its local GROWMARK member cooperatives and subsidiaries. The organization now known as GROWMARK started in 1927 when nine of the local agricultural supply cooperatives in Illinois, which had started early in the 1920s, formed Illinois Farm Supply Company. In 1955, the company adopted the FS trademark, which has remained in use by its member cooperatives since then. In the 1960s, the company moved from Chicago to Bloomington, Illinois, merged with Farm Bureau Service Company of Iowa to form FS Services, Inc., then merged Wisconsin Farmco Service Cooperative and Producers Seed Company into itself as well. FS Services and Illinois Grain Corporation merged in 1980 to form GROWMARK, Inc.
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