IPO Profile

UAP Holding Corp.
7251 W. 4th Street, Greeley, Colorado 80634
Tel: 970-356-4400
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Stock Exchange: American Stock Exchange
Shares Issued: 32,000,000.00
Price Offered: $0.00
Amount Raised: $640,000,000.00

Underwriters:
CS First Boston
UBS Investment Bank
CIBC World Markets
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Merrill Lynch & Co.

Company Description:
Founded in 1978, we are the largest private distributor of agricultural and non-crop inputs in the United States and Canada. We market a comprehensive line of products including crop protection chemicals, seeds and fertilizers to growers and regional dealers. As part of our product offering, we provide a broad array of value-added services including crop management, biotechnology advisory services, custom blending, inventory management and custom applications of crop inputs. The products and services we offer are critical to growers because they lower the overall cost of crop production and improve crop quality and yield. As a result of our broad scale and scope, including a comprehensive network of approximately 350 distribution and storage facilities and five formulation and blending plants that are strategically located in the major crop-producing areas of the United States and Canada, we provide leading agricultural input companies with an efficient means to access a highly fragmented customer base of farmers and growers. For the twelve months ended February 22, 2004, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the Transactions, we generated net sales of $2.5 billion and income before income taxes of $48.3 million. Our integrated sales network covering over 40,000 active stock keeping units, or SKUs, and supported by approximately 1,000 sales people, enables us to efficiently process, distribute and store products close to our end-users and to supply our customers on a timely basis during the compressed planting and growing season.