The Mosaic Company is a combined producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash. Its customer base includes wholesalers, retail dealers and individual growers in more than 40 countries. June: Mosaic announced as the chosen name for the newly formed company. 2  January: The crop nutrition business of Cargill, Inc. and IMC Global enter into a definitive agreement to form a new crop nutrition company.
Definition of tertiary. plural. tertiaries. 1 [Medieval Latin tertiarius, from Latin, of a third] : a member of a monastic third order especially of lay people. 2 capitalized : the Tertiary (see 2tertiary) period or system of rocks.
mercantilism (mÃ»rÂ´kÉntÄ¬lÄ¬zÉm), economic system of the major trading nations during the 16th, 17th, and 18th cent., based on the premise that national wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and collecting precious metals in return.