NiPKo completes Axss USA acquisition

Greeley, Colo.-NiPKo LLC announced on Sept. 9 the acquisition of the remaining shares of Axss USA LLC, based in Platte City, Mo. The company will now be headquartered in Greeley, Colo., and operate under the name of Axss USA LLC. The company, which markets generic agricultural chemicals, is owned and headed by Kevin Howard, formerly of Loveland Products Inc. Axss USA also recently announced that it has reached a sales and marketing agreement with Trace Mountain LLC, a Mississippi-based company that markets agrochemicals to the agricultural distribution network. “The agreement with Trace Mountain offers us an opportunity to enhance our selling and marketing functions across the U.S. while enabling us to spend more resources on procuring new products for our portfolio,” Howard said. Axss USA is now in its third year of selling and marketing agrochemicals.