NEW HAMPTON, N.Y., April 30, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Balchem Corporation (Nasdaq:BCPC) today announced that a conference call will be held on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) to review first quarter 2008 results. Dino A. Rossi, President and CEO, and Frank Fitzpatrick, Chief Financial Officer, will host the call.
Quarterly results will be released to the market on Thursday, May 8, at 9:30 AM (ET). The press release, and its accompanying financial exhibits, will also be available on the Company website, www.balchem.com, prior to the conference call.
Effective with the quarter ending March 31, 2008, the Company has realigned its business segment reporting structure to more appropriately reflect the internal management of the businesses, largely due to the impact of the recent acquisitions of 2007. The Company will continue to report three segments: ARC Specialty Products; Food, Pharma and Nutrition; and Animal Nutrition and Health. Changes to the reporting segments are as follows: Chelated minerals and specialty nutritional products for the animal health industry, formerly reported as a part of the Encapsulated/Nutritional Products segment, are now combined with the Choline business (formerly BCP Ingredients) into a consolidated Animal Nutrition and Health segment. The Encapsulated/Nutritional Products segment has been renamed Food, Pharma and Nutrition, focusing on human health. There are no changes to the ARC Specialty Products segment.
We invite you to listen to the conference on May 8 by calling toll-free 1-877-407-8289 (local dial-in 1-201-689-8341), five minutes prior to the scheduled start time of the conference call. The conference call will be available for digital replay through Wednesday, May 14. To access the replay of the conference call dial 1-877-660-6853 (local dial-in 1-201-612-7415), and use account #298 and conference ID#283740. Both account and conference ID numbers are required for replay access.
About Balchem Corporation
Balchem Corporation consists of three business segments: ARC Specialty Products; Food, Pharma and Nutrition; and Animal Nutrition and Health. Through ARC Specialty Products, Balchem provides specialty-packaged chemicals for use in healthcare and other industries. The Food, Pharma and Nutrition segment provides proprietary microencapsulation, granulation and agglomeration solutions to a variety of applications in the human food, pharmaceutical and nutrition marketplaces. The Animal Nutrition and Health segment manufactures and supplies products to numerous animal health markets and certain derivative products into industrial applications.