It was an interesting day to interview Fran Malecha, who became CEO of Overland Park-based Compass Minerals in January. The company's common stock price was dive-bombing 18.5 percent.
A large Russian fertilizer company had just announced that it would drop out of a pricing cartel, leading to speculation in the market that prices would plummet and wreaking havoc on the stock prices for several publicly traded companies that deal in fertilizer. Right in the middle of all that was Compass Minerals,…
It was an interesting day to interview Fran Malecha, who became CEO of Overland Park-based Compass Minerals in January. The company's common stock price was dive-bombing 18.5 percent.
A large Russian fertilizer company had just announced that it would drop out of a pricing cartel, leading to speculation in the market that prices would plummet and wreaking havoc on the stock prices for several publicly traded companies that deal in fertilizer. Right in the middle of all that was Compass Minerals,…