American Vanguard Corporation (AVD) is a publicly traded company in the Basic Materials sector, operating within the Agricultural Inputs industry. The company is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, United States. The current CEO is Douglas A. Kaye.
AVD has IPO date of 1987-03-03, 845 full-time employees, listed on the NYSE, a market capitalization of $75.06M.
American Vanguard Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets specialty chemicals for agricultural, commercial, and consumer uses in the United States and internationally. It manufactures and formulates chemicals, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, molluscicides, soil health, plant nutrition, growth regulators, and soil fumigants in liquid, powder, and granular forms for crops, turf and ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. The company also markets, sells, and distributes end-use chemical and biological products for crop applications; and distributes chemicals for turf and ornamental markets. It distributes its products through national distribution companies, and buying groups or co-operatives; and through sales offices, sales force executives, sales agents, and wholly owned distributors. The company was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.
