Founded in 1969, American Vanguard is a diversified specialty and agricultural products company that develops and markets crop protection, turf and ornamental products and public health insecticides. The Company’s chief strategy is to acquire niche product lines from multi-billion dollar companies that divest mature products to focus on newly discovered molecules.
The Company’s products include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, soil fumigants, defoliants, molluscides and growth regulators. They are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular formulations, and in a unique delivery system for granular products.