Chemspec East Anglia Ltd
Chemspec East Anglia was formed in February 1990, by partners Peter Kane and
Andrew Buck. We became members of the Crest Marketing Group in 1997, this is an
association of independent agrochemical distributors who buy together. We moved
to new purpose built premises in July 1998 on George Edwards Road, Fakenham
Industrial Estate. Chemspec East Anglia was incorporated in August 2000, Chemspec East Anglia is now the trading name of
Chemspec East Anglia Ltd. Founding partners Peter and Andrew became the joint
shareholders and directors of the limited company, ensuring the continuing
independence of the company.
At the start of 2003, Well known agronomists, Roger Bassham, Peter Single and David Wright
joined Chemspec from Agrovista (formally Cropcare). They were appointed
Directors of Chemspec East Anglia Ltd in August 2003.
In May 2005 James Francis, joined us from Sands Agricultural Services Ltd (now
Frontier). James Attended Shuttleworth agricultural college where he completed
an HND in Agriculture, before continuing at Harper Adams university where he
gained a BSC Honours in crop management. As well as being a fully qualified
Agronomist, James has been busy completing Entry Level Stewardship
applications, Higher level Scheme applications and Single Farm Payment forms on
behalf of our customers.
In 2009 Peter and Stephanie Kane retired from the company, after 20 years of
dedicated hard work building a relatively small company to the thriving
respected business it is today.
In February 2011 David Youngs joined Chemspec from Hutchinsons. David has always
been involved in agriculture as his family farm at Lingwood. After leaving
college David started work as a trainee farm manager in Norfolk, before
deciding to pursue a career in agronomy with Crop Care chemicals and lately
with Hutchinsons. Given the area David works in he has a large involvement in
potatoes and is a valuable asset to the team.
In March 2011 Peter Pointen joined from Frontier, again Peter comes from a
farming background. He studied Agriculture at Eastern college and then carried
on at Harper Adams where he graduated in 2004. Peter brings a young modern
approach to farm management/ agronomy. Which is certainly required in our
evolving industry.
It is the belief of the company that the Agricultural Industry is undergoing
major change and it is the ability of its customers to adapt and embrace the
large amount of physical and political problems facing them at present, which
will determine their profitability for the future.
Chemspec as a company has evolved to assist their customers in the lengthy audit
trail, which accompanies crop production. From NVZ’z to ELS management plans, we believe an agronomist plays a key role in the
daily management and implementation of new legislation.
