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UPDATE 1-Agrium buys Italian fertilizer company

Published 05/02/2011, 05:20 PM
Updated 05/02/2011, 05:24 PM
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* Expands reach into Italy, Romania

* Agrium bought Australia's AWB last year (In U.S. dollars unless noted)

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 2 (Reuters) - Agrium Inc , a leading Canadian farm dealer and fertilizer producer, said on Monday that it had bought CerealToscana SA, a fertilizer distribution company in Italy.

The deal, which includes CerealToscana's Romanian subsidiary, Agroport, is for $27 million, plus working capital.

CerealToscana and Agroport have 90,000 tonnes of storage with key distribution assets in Livorno and Ravenna, Italy, and along the Danube in Romania, Agrium said in a release.

The companies sell an estimated 400,000 tonnes of fertilizer a year including commodity and specialty products.

The deal will boost Agrium's presence in Italy and allow it to enter the Romanian agricultural market, Chief Executive Mike Wilson said.

Agrium, a major potash producer based in Calgary, Alberta, bought Australia's AWB for $1.1 billion last year and sold the former AWB commodity management arm to Cargill Inc [CARG.UL] in March.

Agrium shares closed up 23 Canadian cents, or 0.3 percent, at C$85.99 in Toronto. (Reporting by Rod Nickel; editing by Rob Wilson)

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