7/21/2011 - By Harrell's

Lakeland, Florida, July 21, 2011 - Harrell’s, manufacturer and supplier of performance-based turf and ornamental products, opens a new warehouse in Lombard, Illinois.  This centrally located facility makes it easy to improve delivery and customer service to Illinois and southern Wisconsin customers.  “With this new warehouse we can make sure that our superintendent, landscape and sports turf customers have what they need, when they need it.” said Jack Harrell, Jr. Chairman and CEO, “it is just a continuation of our ongoing commitment to help in any way we can foster our customers’ success.”

The new warehouse is a full service facility stocking a complete line of fertilizers, seed and pesticides as well as Harrell’s brand of wetting agents and liquid nutritionals.  Sam Strawbridge, Operations Manager brings years of logistics, warehouse optimization and management experience and works alongside warehouse staff to quickly and accurately process customer orders.

For more information contact Kevin Fuchs, Mid-West Sales Manager, at kfuchs@harrells.com or (248) 515-9880.

In addition to being one of the nation’s largest distributors of branded fungicides, herbicides and insecticides, Harrell’s now produces top-quality, custom blended fertilizers, specialty liquids, and wetting agents for the golf course, sports turf, landscape management, and horticulture industries. Harrell’s guarantees stringent quality control procedures, tight manufacturing specifications and careful selection of raw materials for each product that carries the Harrell’s name.  They are also the exclusive eastern formulator and a leading world distributor of POLYON®, the industry’s superior controlled-release fertilizer technology.  www.harrells.com.

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