BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$110.7M
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
VeraSun Energy Corporation (NYSE: VSE), headquartered in Brookings, SD, is committed to being a leading producer of renewable fuel. The Company has two operating ethanol production facilities located in Aurora, SD, and Fort Dodge, IA, and three facilities under construction in Charles City, IA, Hartley, IA, and Welcome, MN. Upon completion of the new facilities, VeraSun will have an annual production capacity of approximately 560 million gallons. The Company has plans to extract oil from dried distillers grains, a co-product of the ethanol process, for use in biodiesel production.
Chairman & CEO
Don EndresNumber of Employees 160
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing: 325193
Recent Events
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Reportlinker Adds Ethanol - Global Market Opportunities
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Putting it Back Together
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Iowa's Ethanol Ind. Shows Signs of Recovery
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Qteros and ACT: Sewage goes in one end, fuel comes out the other
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Plants return to production after idle summer
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Five former VeraSun plants sold to producer/owners
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PSC aims to resolve ethanol plant insolvency
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River Valley Energy to purchase former VeraSun plant
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GPRE becomes major industry player
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The Recession's Impact on Dyersville, Iowa
News & Analysis
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U.S. Ethanol Producers Facing Liquidity Challenge
Research Recap submits: From boom to bust, it’s been a quick round-trip for ethanol producers and the credit crisis is only the latest in a series of issues that have raised liquidity concerns, according to Moody’s Investors Service in a special report. click to enlarge by Research Recap
Is Ethanol Dead? Not So Fast
Max Blankfeld submits: A few months I wrote about how the number of flex-fuel cars was increasing in Brazil and sugar-cane ethanol has been a thriving industry for years, without causing damage to food production. Fresh news related to the ethanol industry, both in the US and in Brazil, should...
VeraSun Files for Bankruptcy
Greentech Media submits: By Ucilia Wang VeraSun Energy Corp. (NYSE: VSE), a cash-strapped ethanol company that lost big in hedging corn prices, said late Friday it had filed for bankruptcy. by Greentech Media
Verasun Energy: Thin Margin Co's Are One Bad Economic Turn Away from Disaster
Tim Plaehn submits: As I hypothesized on Thursday, VeraSun Energy VSE has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The cause can be condensed to two sentences from the press release: The Company suffered significant losses in the third quarter of 2008 from a dramatic spike in its corn costs, reflecting...
VeraSun Plant Closing Results in Slashed Analyst Estimates
Greentech Media submits: By Ucilia Wang VeraSun Energy Corp. VSE has shut down one of its ethanol plants in Indiana, prompting an equity analyst to reduce the company's share price target by nearly 56 percent. by Greentech Media
VeraSun Energy Could Be Attractive to the Right Buyer
Tim Plaehn submits: When VeraSun Energy VSE revealed last week it had somehow managed to lock in corn supply prices for the 3rd quarter at near record prices and would incur a $100 million loss for the quarter, the stock dropped over 70% in a single day. Until that...
LEDs Rise as Biofuels Sink (Week Ending 9/19)
Capping a crazy week, broad markets end up, while commodities retreated slightly. Camino's indices ended the week mixed amid highly volitile trading. by Cleantechblog
VeraSun: Next To Fold?
Greentech Media submits: By Daniel Englander And the hits just keep on coming. Pure-play ethanol company VeraSun sent out a press release late Thursday night announcing they retained Morgan Stanley MS to help “evaluate strategic alternatives”. That’s pennies-on-the-dollar talk if I’ve ever heard it. VeraSun’s VSE stock price dropped...
Verasun Gets Killed
Dan Pritch submits: Verasun tanked over 70% Wednesday after predicting an enormous loss on record corn prices. I predicted its demise here and actually purchased out of the money puts in anticipation of such a precipitous decline. Unfortunately for me, I only purchased out to the August expiry...
Verasun's Screw Up
Tim Plaehn submits: According to this report from Forbes it appears that VeraSun Energy VSE managed to lock in a significant amount of corn contracts at near the peak of the recent corn run up. In the mean time, ethanol prices have fallen in lock step with falling corn...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Danny C. Herron | CFO & Senior Vice President |
| Barry Schaps | Senior Vice President, Logistics |
| Bill Honnef | Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing |
| Bob Antoine | Senior Vice President, HR |
| John M. Schweitzer | General Counsel & Senior Vice President |
| Paul J. Caudill | Senior Vice President, Operations |
| Paul Schock | Senior Vice President, Corp Development |
| Ginja Collins | Vice President, Finance |
| Kevin T. Biehle | Vice President, Plant Operations |
| Matt Janes | Vice President, Technology |
| Paul Kreter | Vice President, Ethanol Sales |
| Peter Atkins | Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions |
| Ginger Scalet | Director, HR & Admin |
| Laura Johnson | Controller |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Don Endres | Chairman & CEO |
| Duane Gilliam | Chairman |
| Bruce Jamerson | Board of Directors |
| D. Duane Gilliam | Board of Directors |
| Jack Huggins | Board of Directors |
| Mark L. First | Board of Directors |
| Steven T. Kirby | Board of Directors |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Chairman & CEO | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | CFO & Senior Vice President | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Senior Vice President, Logistics | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Senior Vice President, HR | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | General Counsel & Senior Vice President | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Senior Vice President, Operations | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Senior Vice President, Corp Development | Current |
| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Vice President, Finance | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Vice President, Plant Operations | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Vice President, Technology | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Vice President, Ethanol Sales | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Director, HR & Admin | Current |
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| VeraSun Energy Corporation | Controller | Current |
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