In a strategic business move, Bayer CropScience has relocated its regional office for horticulture, row crops and environmental science to Guelph, joining the agribusiness hotbed housed at the University of Guelph’s Research Park.

The company’s new location is home to 12 permanent staff working in sales, marketing, research and development for horticulture, row crops and environmental science in Canada, as well as the customer interaction centre for all three divisions.

“Moving to Guelph puts us in the middle of a dynamic agribusiness community and all the spin-off benefits associated with it,” says Clair Heinbuch, director of marketing, horticulture and row crops for Bayer CropScience in Eastern Canada.

Bayer CropScience’s Guelph office is responsible for the company’s crop protection portfolio for row crops in Eastern Canada that includes Option®, Liberty®, Poncho® and Vitaflo® 280, as well as for horticultural crops across Canada that includes Admire® and new Flint®, Reason® and Envidor®.

The relocation comes on the heels of the company’s purchase of the remaining 50 per cent ownership of Gustafson Partnership LLC from Crompton Corporation in 2004. The new Guelph office occupies the former Gustafson office.