Stockton Announces New Country Manager for Mexico

NAUCALPAN, Mexico, November 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Stockton Israel (STK), a leader in innovative crop protection based on botanical sources, today announced the appointment of Mr. Eduardo Quintero Ron as Country Manager of Stockton Mexico. This appointment completes the Stockton Group's new structure, whose objective is the creation of a new direction for the company, thus implementing an innovative strategy across Latin America focusing both on leadership as well as on the incorporation of a technical and professional team in agricultural industry.

Eduardo is an agronomist and son of farmers. He left farming to study Agronomy at the Chapingo Autonomous University of Mexico, specializing in Agricultural Parasitology and later earning as well a Master of Science in Plant Protection. Eduardo joins Stockton with over 30 years of experience in crop protection, mainly acquired working in R & D and in Technical Marketing and Sales with such companies as Syngenta and Bayer; in addition, he worked in Panama as Asset Manager for Northern Latin America.

"It has been a long, hard road for many of us. The decisions were not simple but had to be made. These strategic moves were made by Stockton in order to incorporate a professional team and fresh and innovative ideas," said Ziv Tirosh, CEO of the Stockton Group. "The addition of Eduardo to our company sets another important milestone for Stockton. He is part of our growth strategy, and we believe that Eduardo is not only an expert in his field, but that his business skills will help us build a successful relationship with our customers."

About the Stockton Group 

The Stockton Group (Stockton) specializes in the development and marketing of botanical based biopesticides. Its core focus is on the incorporation of these bio-pesticides into conventional agriculture spraying programs that use conventional chemical products, thus creating a balanced, cleaner and sustainable agricultural environment.

Stockton has an active R&D program for the development of future natural products for crop protection. Its unique research and development center in Israel invests substantial resources in developing 'green' products. Stockton has a variety of products adapted to different agro ecological areas, biological parameters and regulatory guidelines, and is active in more than 35 counties worldwide.

Stockton's flagship product Timorex Gold^® is used to control a broad spectrum of diseases in diverse crops. The product demonstrates an efficacy equivalent to chemical fungicides, and is suitable to be used in conventional and organic agriculture. Timorex Gold^® is registered and sold in over 30 countries.

Stockton is a global company established in 1994 as a privately owned company and has a staff of 40 employees in Israel and around 120 employees worldwide. The company has offices in 20 countries and operates in over 40 countries.

Contact: For more information, please visit our website:  http://www.stockton-ag.com or contact Judy Jamuy at: +972-52-7599242 or judy@stockton-ag.com