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Anniversary celebrated by feeding the hungry

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BY YVETTE C. HAMMETT

yhammett@tampatrib.com

Published: November 4, 2009

RIVERVIEW - Mosaic Fertilizer celebrated its first five years on the New York Stock Exchange recently by contributing $45,000 in cash and 6,000 pounds of food to benefit America's Second Harvest.

In all, the company and its 7,500 employees donated more than a million meals to organizations around the world to help alleviate hunger, said Mosaic Public Affairs Manager Russell Schweiss.

In addition to the contributions to Feeding America - which go locally to America's Second Harvest - the company, a worldwide distributer of phosphate-based fertilizers, also provided meals to organizations in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China and India.

"To supplement the cash donations, we collected nonperishable food items at all Mosaic locations during the last month, which will be donated through Feeding America," Schweiss said. America's Second Harvest distributes donated food to hundreds of food pantries around the region.

In addition to the contributions locally, Mosaic is also donating $5,000 to Hardee County, $2,500 to Manatee County, $2,500 to Leon County and $5,000 to Charlotte County.

Most of Mosaic's phosphate mining operations take place in Hillsborough and surrounding counties. Its new headquarters building is now under construction in Circa FishHawk in Lithia.

Reporter Yvette C. Hammett can be reached at (813) 627-4763.

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