Monsanto Changes Its Name

Tue., Sept. 2, 1997

Associated Press

After 45 years of operating in southeastern Idaho, Monsanto has a new name.

Effective Monday, the company is called Solutia. The name results from a split approved at a meeting of the company’s stockholders two weeks ago in St. Louis.

Under the name Monsanto, the company has been operating phosphate mining and manufacturing facilities near Soda Springs since 1952.

“Hopefully, our record here shows we’ve made a good name for ourselves,” said Trent Clark, company spokesman. “Now we have an opportunity to do it all over again.”

Solutia and the remaining portion of Monsanto each will be global leaders in their markets. The other part of the company hasn’t been named yet.

The split resulted in most of the company’s trademark chemical manufacturing going to Solutia.

Since the Idaho operations are mostly aligned with the chemical business, more than 97 percent of the company’s Idaho employees now work for Solutia.

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