PotashCorp Contributes $500,000 to Joplin Relief Efforts
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) today announced a $500,000 cash donation to the American Red Cross, Greater Ozarks Regional Chapter, to support relief efforts in Joplin, Missouri following the massive tornado that struck the community on May 22. PotashCorp owns and operates a feed phosphate operation in the small community of 50,000.
“This natural disaster hits close to home,” said PotashCorp President and CEO Bill Doyle. “In the wake of the devastation, our thoughts and prayers are with our neighbours in Joplin and we hope that our contribution helps bring comfort at this difficult time.”
In addition to the $500,000 contribution, PotashCorp employees’ donations to relief efforts in Joplin will be matched dollar-for-dollar through PotashCorp’s Employee Matching Gift program.
“We are so grateful for this donation. It will make a huge difference in the recovery of those devastated by the tornado. In the midst of such pain, suffering and loss it is uplifting to see a company step forward to do all they can to alleviate that pain.” Says Debi Meeds, Regional CEO of the Greater Ozarks Chapter of the American Red Cross.
PotashCorp’s donation follows significant commitments to relief efforts in China and Myanmar in 2008, Haiti and Chile in 2010, New Zealand in 2011, and most recently in Japan.
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. is the world’s largest fertilizer enterprise by capacity producing the three primary plant nutrients and a leading supplier to three distinct market categories: agriculture, with the largest capacity in the world in potash, third largest in each of nitrogen and phosphate; animal nutrition, with the world’s largest capacity in phosphate feed ingredients; and industrial chemicals, as the largest global producer of industrial nitrogen products and the world’s largest capacity for production of purified industrial phosphoric acid. PotashCorp's common shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
For further information, contact:
Rhonda Speiss
Manager, Corporate Philanthropy
Phone: (306) 933-8544
E-mail Rhonda
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