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Leading Proxy Advisor Glass, Lewis Recommends Agrium Shareholders Vote FOR Agrium's Director Nominees

CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/26/13 -- ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN U.S.$

Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) announced today that Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC ("Glass Lewis") has recommended that its clients vote FOR all 12 of Agrium's director nominees using only the WHITE proxy.

Glass Lewis is a leading independent international corporate governance analysis and proxy voting firm that focuses on the long-term [...]

27.03.2013

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Agrium Sets the Record Straight

CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/22/13 -- ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN U.S.$

Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) today set the record straight on information published yesterday by JANA:

-- JANA continues to promote the "portfolio-weighted composite" that is not
used by any of the 29 equity research analysts that cover Agrium. Agrium
has maintained from the very beginning that JANA's [...]

22.03.2013

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Jana Partners Releases Supplement To Proxy Advisor Presentation

NEW YORK, March 21, 2013 /CNW/ - JANA Partners today released a supplement to its presentation for proxy advisors to put to rest new complaints made by Agrium Inc. ("Agrium") (TSX / NYSE: AGU) regarding JANA's initial presentation. The supplement is available at www.JanaAGUAnalysis.com.1. Agrium complains that our peer methodology is "concocted" and rejected by analysts. JANA Response: Our methodology is nearly [...]

21.03.2013

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Agrium Issues Shareholder Letter and Posts CEO Video to Website

CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/21/13 -- ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN U.S.$

Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) today announced that it has mailed a letter to shareholders, along with a WHITE proxy. Agrium encourages shareholders to visit its website, www.agrium.com/proxy, to view the letter along with an important video message from Agrium President and CEO Mike Wilson.

"Agrium is getting strong support from [...]

21.03.2013

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Agrium Exposes JANA's Deceptive Share Price Performance Analysis and Break-Up Agenda

CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/20/13 -- ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN U.S.$

Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) today exposed numerous flaws in JANA's deceptive share price performance claims and other analyses. In a presentation posted today to www.agrium.com/proxy, copies of which were provided earlier this week to the proxy governance advisory firms, Agrium demonstrates that JANA has not met the burden of [...]

20.03.2013

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Jana Partners Releases Presentation to Proxy Advisors

NEW YORK, March 20, 2013 /CNW/ - JANA Partners today released its new investor presentation to the leading proxy advisors making the case for its nominees for the board of Agrium Inc. ("Agrium") (TSX / NYSE: AGU). The presentation is available at www.JanaAGUAnalysis.com and addresses these key issues:1. Is Change Warranted at Agrium?Yes. While Agrium points to its return since embarking on its current integrated [...]

20.03.2013

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Agrium Responds to JANA Press Release; Says JANA Offers Nothing New; JANA's Campaign has Zero Credibility and is Certain to Fail

CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/07/13 -- ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN U.S.$

Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) today stated the open letter by JANA Partners released this morning is consistent with the New York hedge fund's flailing campaign to justify its ill-conceived break-up scheme.

"The facts are straightforward. JANA has been trying for over nine months to obtain support for its idea that Agrium should [...]

07.03.2013

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Time For An Upgrade: Jana Announces Agrium Directors To Be Replaced

- Targets 5 Directors Who Embody Board's Deficiencies in Experience, Passivity in the Face of Underperformance, Lack of Shareholder Alignment, and Entrenchment Tactics- Includes 2 Directors Who Just This Week Invented New Credentials for Themselves- Debunks Agrium's Tired Scare Tactics and Misleading Statements About Board Alignment with ShareholdersNEW YORK, March 7, 2013 /CNW/ - JANA Partners today filed and [...]

07.03.2013

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JANA Continues to Mask Plan to Break Up Agrium

CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/07/13 -- ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN U.S.$

Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) today warned shareholders that New York hedge fund JANA Partners continues to attempt to mask its break-up objective by disseminating a growing list of false and misleading statements.

"Our shareholders make decisions based on value and credible analysis, not rhetoric, and they are fully capable of [...]

07.03.2013

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Jana Partners Responds To Agrium's Proxy Circular And Defense Of The Status Quo

Further Information Available at www.JANAAguAnalysis.comNEW YORK, March 4, 2013 /CNW/ - JANA Partners today responded to the release of proxy materials from Agrium Inc. ("Agrium") (TSX / NYSE: AGU). "Agrium is proudly defiant in its continued refusal to consider any new means to reverse its historical underperformance compared to its true potential. However, nothing in Agrium's new appeal to shareholders addresses [...]

04.03.2013

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Agrium Urges Shareholders to Vote the WHITE Proxy FOR Agrium's Director Nominees

Warns of JANA's Tactics to Break Up the CompanyCALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/04/13 -- ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN U.S.$ UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED

Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) announced today that it has commenced mailing its Proxy Circular in advance of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders that will take place in Calgary, Alberta on April 9, 2013.

The proxy circular includes a letter to Agrium [...]

04.03.2013

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Jana Declines Agrium's Invitation To Join It In The Mud

Further Information Available at www.JANAAguAnalysis.comNEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2013 /CNW/ - JANA Partners LLC today responded to a new presentation released today by Agrium, Inc. ("Agrium") (TSX / NYSE: AGU) in which Agrium rehashes for a second straight week its factually inaccurate and diversionary account of the recent settlement discussions between Agrium and JANA. These talks ended two weeks ago when JANA rejected [...]

25.02.2013

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