FMC Corp.
1735 Market Street
Philadelphia,
PA 19103
Phone: 215-299-6000
Fax: 215-299-5998
Web Site: http://www.fmc.com
| REUTERS ABRIDGED BUSINESS SUMMARY | |
| FMC Corporation, a chemical company, provides solutions, applications, and products to various end markets worldwide. It operates in three segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Chemicals, and Industrial Chemicals. The Agricultural Products segment develops, manufactures, and sells a portfolio of crop protection, pest control, and lawn and garden products. It produces insecticides to protect various crops, including cotton, maize, soybeans, rice, sugarcane, cereals, fruits, and vegetables from insects; and for nonagricultural applications, such as pest control for home, garden, and other specialty markets. This segment also produces herbicides to protect various crops, turf, and roadsides from weed growth. The Specialty Chemicals segment produces microcrystalline cellulose that is used as drug dry tablet binder and disintegrant, and food ingredient; carrageenan, which is used as food ingredient for thickening and stabilizing, encapsulant for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications; alginates that are used as food ingredients, and for pharmaceutical excipient, wound care, orthopedic uses, and industrial uses; and lithium that is used in pharmaceuticals, polymers, batteries, greases and lubricants, air conditioning, and other industrial applications. The Industrial Chemicals segment produces soda ash for glass, chemicals, and detergents; peroxygens for pulp and paper, chemical processing, detergents, antimicrobial disinfectants, environmental applications, electronics, and polymers; and phosphorus chemicals for detergents, cleaning compounds, and animal feed. The company was founded in 1884 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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| | Pay | Exercised | Mr. William G. Walter , 63
Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer, Pres and Chairman of Exec. Committee |
$
3.93M |
$
8.79M | Mr. W. Kim Foster , 60
Chief Financial Officer and Sr. VP |
$
1.31M |
$
8.70M | Mr. Milton Steele , 60
VP and Gen. Mang. of Agricultural Products Group |
$
1.10M |
$
3.10M | Mr. Theodore H. Butz , 51
VP and Group Mang. of Specialty Chemicals |
$
842.00K |
$
2.50M | Mr. D. Michael Wilson , 46
VP and Gen. Mang. of Industrial Chemicals Group |
$
1.02M |
$
2.42M |
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Dollar amounts are as of
31-Dec-08
and compensation values are for the last fiscal
year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of
options exercised during the fiscal year.
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