Warm Weather Cools Earnings for Compass Minerals in 2012, but Company Optimistic About 2013

SUGAR LAND--February 11, 2013--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Compass Minerals International Incorporated (NYSE:CMP) (Overland Park, Kansas), a leading North American producer of specialty fertilizers and deicing salt, saw declines in earnings in fourth-quarter and full-year 2012, as mild winter weather weakened deicing salt sales, although sales for specialty fertilizer remained strong. Industrial Info is tracking $268 million in projects involving Compass.