Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) is a leading provider of essential minerals focused on safely delivering where and when it matte ... rs to help solve nature’s challenges for customers and communities. Its salt products help keep roadways safe during winter weather and are used in numerous other consumer, industrial and agricultural applications. And its plant nutrition business manufactures an innovative and diverse portfolio of products that improve the quality and yield of crops, while supporting sustainable agriculture. Additionally, its specialty chemical business serves the water treatment industry and other industrial processes. The company operates 15 production and packaging facilities with more than 2,000 employees throughout the U.S., Canada, Brazil and the U.K. Headquartered in the Kansas City metropolitan area, the company provides bulk treated and untreated highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the U.K., and plant nutrients to growers worldwide. Compass Minerals also produces consumer deicing and water conditioning products, consumer and commercial culinary salt, and other mineral-based products for consumer, agricultural and industrial applications. In addition, the company provides records management services to businesses throughout the U.K. in a retired underground mine that provides safe, secure and environmentally friendly storage. Though the company’s history stretches back as far as 1844, Compass Minerals became a public company in December 2003. The company is part of the S&P MidCap 400 Index, the Russell 1000 Index and was included in Fortune magazine’s 2010 listing of the “100 Fastest-Growing Companies.” Compass Minerals’ mission is to be the best essential minerals company by safely delivering where and when it matters. read more