Richardson International Ltd. is buying CJS Agro Services Ltd., a private, family-owned crop input retailer with two locations in southeastern Alta., at Hussar and Acadia Valley.
Hussar is a full service centre that retails chemical, fertilizer and seed while Acadia Valley sells seed and crop protection products. Employees at the CJS locations in Hussar and Acadia Valley will be offered the opportunity to join Richardson.
The deal is the latest in a series of crop input centre acquisitions in the last two years. In 2010, Richardson bought three crop input locations in the Peace River region of Alberta. Last year, it acquired North East Terminal in Wadena, Sask., which included four crop input centre locations.
