Department of Modern Foreign Languages Lecture Series (2)
A Little April Humour
Wednesday, October 16 at 11:00 A.M., in the Media Services Seminar Room on the ground
floor of the Paul Meek Library (UTMartin), Mr. Jack Simpson, will make a presentation
intitled "A Case Study in the Globalization of Agriculture: The International Operations of a
Local Company -- Advance Seed of Fulton". Mr. Simpson, who has been President and C.O.O.
of Advance Seed in Fulton, Kentucky for the past six years, is experienced as a production
engineer for Lear Siegler and supervisor of a major computer facility at Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company.
The parent company of Advance Seed is Limagrain, which is now the 3rd largest agro-
business of its kind in the world and the 1st in Europe (with operations in France, the US,
Brazil, Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain,
Germany, Denmark, Chile and elsewhere).
This important lecture, linking agriculture to international business is open to the public.
Please direct any questions to Dr. Paul Crapo (chair) at 901-587-7487 paucrapo@utm.edu
.
Though there appears to be no headquarters home page on the WWW for Limagrain, there
are some links which may give you a glimpse of this large company operating in different
parts of the world:
Dominique Vial (Directeur
general du Groupe Limagrain depuis 1984)
LES SEMENCES ET PLANTS
(au sujet de Limagrain)
Groupe Limagrain Pacific, Australia
International
seed company to locate worldwide canola research centre in
Saskatoon