The Company

Makhteshim Agan Group is the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of branded off-patent crop and non-crop protection products. With over 60 years of field-proven experience and an impeccable reputation for quality, value and attentive service, Makhteshim Agan Group ranks among a handful of the world’s largest makers of crop protection products.

Makhteshim Agan Group is unrivalled for its diverse offering of advanced, environmentally friendly products having established itself as the industry’s most reliable one-stop vendor of comprehensive, crop-specific off-patent products for all major crops. Makhteshim Agan Group sells its crop protection products in over 100 countries and together with its strategically located global distribution areas, competes successfully with leading industry peers. The extensive product portfolio includes a full complement of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides for virtually every conventional crop and non-crop category.

Market leadership: #1 branded off-patent provider, #7 overall.

Makhteshim Agan Group currently ranks seventh overall in the global crop protection market, for both proprietary and branded off-patent products with a global market share of over 5%. In the off-patent segment, the group ranks number one in the world. In 1998, Makhteshim Agan Group became a publicly traded company, a union of two industry veterans with vast experience in the manufacture and distribution of crop protection products, Agan (1945) and Makhteshim (established 1952). Today, approximately 40% of the company's  shares are held by Koor Industries and the remainder is traded publicly as one of the top ranked on the TASE.

In 2006, Koor Industries came under the extensive umbrella of the IDB Group, Israel’s largest investment concern. IDB holds major, long-term investments in various high growth producing sectors of the economy, including communications, technology and industry; insurance and capital markets; and real estate, retail trading and tourism.

Global presence, local reach: Protecting crops in a field near you

Part of Makhteshim Agan Group’s success as a global enterprise is its ability to make its presence felt locally in every region that it operates in. To that end, Makhteshim Agan Group has deployed the most extensive branded off-patent distribution network in the world, comprising two dozen marketing firms throughout the group's primary markets in Europe, the US and Latin America. Moreover, the group maintains several manufacturing plants worldwide with key facilities located in Israel and Brazil, and smaller facilities in Columbia, Spain and Greece. With over 3,000 employees working to manufacture, market, and distribute the finest off-patent crop protection products in the market, Makhteshim Agan Group is poised to serve the local farmer efficiently and with care.