Representative Clients

Following is a sample of the many clients Kincannon & Reed has been privileged to serve over the years:

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Food

  • Allen Foods

  • Discovery Foods

  • Double B Foods

  • ConAgra Foods

  • Ecce Panis

  • Eurofresh

  • Global Organics

  • Hormel Foods

  • Johanna Foods

  • Mars

  • Mountain City Meats

  • Nutreco

  • Pilgrim's Pride

  • Swift & Company

  • Townsends

  • West Liberty Foods

Associations &
Non-Profit Organizations

  • Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

  • American Frozen Food Institute

  • American Seed Trade Association

  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  • CropLife America

  • The Fertilizer Institute

  • Heifer International

  • National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

  • Prairie Swine Centre

  • Produce for Better Health Foundation

  • The Rockefeller Foundation

  • US Apple Association

  • USA Rice Federation

Life Sciences

  • AgraQuest

  • Arysta Life Science

  • Cobb-Vantress (a Tyson Foods company)

  • Genus

  • Elanco Animal Health

  • Eli Lilly

  • Eurofins Scientific

  • Mendel Biotechnology

  • Novartis Animal Health

  • Perrigo

  • Phibro Animal Health

  • PureLine Genetics

  • Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals

  • Quintiles

  • Schering Plough Animal Health

  • Erich Wesjohann Group

Agribusiness

  • AgroFresh (a Rohm & Haas Company)

  • Arborgen

  • Cargill

  • Cheminova

  • CHS Cooperative

  • De Ruiter Seeds

  • Harris Moran Seed

  • International Garden Products

  • John Deere

  • Kemira

  • KWS Saat

  • Lextron Inc.

  • Limagrain Group

  • Monsanto

  • Pioneer (a DuPont company)

  • The Scoular Company

  • The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

  • Sunkist Growers

  • Terra Industries

  • Viterra

Who We Serve



"You consistently challenge us and broaden our thinking and horizons. You are able to show that sometimes what we think we want is very different than what we need."

- Human resources director for a major crop input company

"We ended up with the ideal candidate combination, and one we would not have envisioned ourselves. Your firm's knowledge of the sector was invaluable as it led to opportunities beyond the search."

- Managing director of a private equity firm

"In addition to finding us great candidates, you worked adeptly and sensitively with all our internal stakeholders. Widespread ownership in the selection process will help our team extend to new hires the support they need for success."
- CEO, privately owned artisan bread company

"We have worked with all the big global firms, and Kincannon & Reed has been easily the most thorough and professional."
- Head of human resources of large multinational company

"We appreciate that you are always reachable and that you never give up even when we all know the search is extremely difficult."
- Chairman of major distribution company

"Thank you for your excellent assistance in this process. The tight search timeline was respected and I believe that the candidate will bring much value to our company."
- CEO for crop input company

"When this search started you indicated one of your goals was to provide a slate that would be so good that we would have difficulty choosing just one candidate. You far exceeded that goal."
- Business unit president for global animal health company

"One of our Senior VPs commented early on that hiring a retained firm was not our best investment of time and money. On our last conference call, however, he indicated he's become a true believer in Kincannon & Reed, and wanted to go on the record as retracting his earlier comment."
- VP of HR for multi-billion dollar, family-owned grain company

"Kincannon & Reed is universally respected and relied upon for quality partnership and mentoring when it comes to senior-level executive searches."
- Former CEO of major agribusiness organization

"Kincannon & Reed has good instincts for people and works hard to know the organization they're serving. "They do a magnificent job matching qualified candidates to the organization."
- Director of Biotech Business Development, multinational agricultural biotechnology organization

"Even when we're not using them, the Kincannon & Reed team keeps in touch because they seem genuinely interested in what we're doing. So when people ask me who we should turn to, I invariably point them to Kincannon & Reed."
- CEO of animal genetics and technology firm