Segments. Verdant conducts business in three major market segments. The segments consist of a consumer products segment, a commercial products segment and a commercial dealer segment. Each business segment is more fully described below:

Consumer Products Segment. As mentioned above, the brands of products sold to the consumer market consist of environmentally sensitive pest control products and fertilizers sold under the Safer(R), SureFire(R), ChemFree(R), Blocker(R), Insectigone(R) and Ringer(R) brands and traditional pest control products sold under the Dexol(R), Black Leaf(R) and various private label brands. Sales of consumer products were approximately $37.7 million...