Compass Minerals is a leading producer of minerals, including salt, sulfate of potash specialty fertilizer, and magnesium chloride. Based in the Kansas City metropolitan area, the company provides bulk treated and untreated highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom and specialty fertilizer to growers worldwide. Compass Minerals also produces consumer deicing and water conditioning products, consumer and commercial culinary salt, and other mineral-based products for consumer, agricultural and industrial applications. In addition, Compass Minerals provides... records management services to businesses throughout the United Kingdom. Compass Minerals is the: In 2010, Compass Minerals had total sales of $1.1 billion and ended the year with market capitalization of just under $3 billion. The company is part of the S&P MidCap 400 Index, the Russell 1000 Index and was included in Fortune magazine’s 2010 listing of the “100 Fastest-Growing Companies.
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| NYSE symbol: | CMP |
| Headquarters: | Overland Park, Kansas |
| Annual revenue: | $1,167,700,000 |
| Net income: | $159,500,000 |
| Operating income: | $274,200,000 |
| Market cap: | $1,300,000,000 |
| Industries: | Mining, Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying, Agricultural Chemicals |