Incitec Pivot Ltd. (IPL) has streamlined its domestic fertilizer distribution business, Incitec Pivot Fertilisers, and its international trading business, Southern Cross International, into one business unit. The new unit will be known as Incitec Pivot Fertilisers.
James Whiteside, currently chief operating officer of IPL’s supply chain and trading business unit, as well as CEO of Southern Cross International and Quantum Fertilisers, IPL’s trading businesses, has been appointed as the chief operating officer of Incitec Pivot Fertilisers. He has more than 30 years of experience across the international and domestic fertilizer industry, including the past twenty years with the IPL Group.
As a result of combining the two businesses, Gary Brinkworth will leave the group. IPL thanked him for his contribution over the last three years.