Cargill
| Cargill Incorporated
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| legal form | Inc. |
| founding | 1865 |
| Seat | Minnetonka , Minnesota , USA |
| management | David MacLennan ( Chairman and CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 150,000 |
| sales | 107.2 billion US dollars |
| Branch | food |
| Website | cargill.com |
| As of August 16, 2016 | |
Cargill Incorporated is a multinational company headquartered in Wayzata , Minnesota , USA . The company deals with food and feed as well as renewable raw materials .
Cargill was founded in 1865 and, with annual sales of nearly 135 billion US dollars (2014), is one of the world's largest companies, whose activities are the purchase, processing and distribution of grain and cereal products and other agricultural commodities as well as the production and trade in livestock , Feed and ingredients of processed foods and pharmaceutical excipients . Cargill also provides financial services that cover some of the risk in trading. Some of the financial services have been outsourced to a hedge fund called Black River Asset Management. It has $ 10 billion in assets.
The company employs 149,000 people in 70 countries.
history
Cargill was founded in 1865 by William Wallace Cargill .
In 1997, Cargill bought Akzo Salt 's salt business from Akzo Nobel . A year later, in 1998, Cargill sold the international seed business outside North America to Monsanto for $ 1.4 billion .
After Cargill invested in Memphis Meats in 2017, it was announced in 2019 that Cargill will also invest in Aleph Farms. Both companies are working on the development of laboratory meat .
Business metrics
- Fiscal 2016 revenue: $ 107.2 billion.
- Fiscal 2016 net income: $ 2.38 billion.
- 25 percent of all US grain exports are made by Cargill.
- About 22 percent of the US meat market is supplied.
- Cargill has 150,000 employees in 70 countries.
- Largest exporter from Argentina .
- Largest poultry producer in Thailand .
- All of the eggs that McDonald’s restaurants use in the United States come from Cargill farms.
- According to Jean Ziegler , UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, the Cargill Group controlled around 29.8 percent of all grain traded worldwide in 2012.
Despite its size, Cargill is still a family business. Descendants of the founding families Cargill and MacMillan own approximately 85 percent of the company. Therefore, the company can finance its growth by reinvesting its profits and does not rely on the financial markets. As a public company , Cargill would be among the top ten Fortune Global 500 companies (2013).
Cargill's long-term strategy is to move away from trading and processing products and into higher value activities. The company intends to focus on advising its customers on adding value in the food production chain.
The company benefits from the global trend towards highly refined grain products and has repositioned itself in this field of business in 2002 with the acquisition of Cerestar (formerly Béghin-Say ).
There is a joint venture with Hoffmann-La-Roche that is developing a process for converting cereal by-products into vitamin E. In addition, ethanol as a fuel and citric acid are made from grain.
Cargill in Germany
Cargill Deutschland GmbH is headquartered in Krefeld. The company has been trading in feed ingredients based on grain and non-grain, the processing of oilseeds into oil and meal, malt production and trading in basic foodstuffs such as glucose and starch , as well as technical oils and lecithin for the food industry, in Germany since 1955 and the production of biodiesel . There are twelve locations (Barby, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg-Rothenburgsort, Hamburg-Wandsbek, Klein Schierstedt, Krefeld, Mainz, Malchin, Riesa and Salzgitter). Arnim Biskup has been the managing director of Cargill Deutschland GmbH since 2016.
With the acquisition of the first cocoa processing plant built by the Nestlé Group in Hamburg in October 2004, Cargill further expanded its cocoa processing facilities in Europe. Further investments were made in 2011 in the cocoa sector through the acquisition of “Kakaoverarbeitung Berlin” (KVB).
In addition to KVB, the commercial activities of Nedalco alcohol were also acquired in 2011.
In March 2006, the company laid the foundation stone for a biodiesel plant in the Frankfurt-Hoechst industrial park. This plant processes the raffinate from existing oil mills in the region. The start of production for this biodiesel plant was in the third quarter of 2006, the investment volume amounts to around 25 million euros.
The Cargill plant in Mainz
The plant, formerly Schmidt Söhne , is conveniently located between Rheinallee and the industrial port in Mainz , which means that bulk goods can be handled inexpensively. The oil mill employs around 55 people and processes 450,000 tons of rapeseed and sunflower seeds into oil and meal every year . The rapeseed comes mainly from the neighboring federal states and partly from the Czech Republic. The oil is used in the food industry, but also for technical purposes. Rapeseed meal is used as an additive to animal feed.
With financial support from the EU within the LIFE (EU) program, Cargill GmbH in Mainz carried out a project to reduce odors and save energy in oilseed processing . The vapor contains a high proportion as in all oil mills glucosinolates whose odor is unpleasant. Together with the company Bulkflow , a pilot system and a feasibility study were created that assess the potential for energy savings and the reduction in environmental impact over a period of one year. This process is based on the principle of the reverse heat exchanger and, if successful, can also be used with other oil mills, e.g. B. in Weisenau at ADM Soya Mainz contribute to environmental relief.
The LIFE financial instrument is intended to contribute to the implementation, updating and further development of environmental policy and environmental law of the Community (EU), in particular with regard to the integration of environmental aspects into other policy areas and to sustainable development in the European Union.
The location was closed in 2016 and the manufacturing facilities demolished in 2017.
The Cargill plant in Krefeld
Located directly at the Krefeld Rheinhafen, around 600 employees at the Krefeld plant produce starch and starch products such as corn from corn every day. B. dextrose and sorbitol. The plant was founded in 1946 under the name Maizena by Corn Products Refining Corporation (CPC), renamed Cerestar in 1987 when it was taken over by Gruppo Ferruzi and has been operating under the name Cargill since 2006 after it was taken over by Cargill in 2002 .
The Cargill factory in Barby
The starch factory in Barby near Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt is located in the Magdeburg Börde, one of the best grain-growing regions in Germany, and processes wheat into starch and starch derivatives. 149 people work in Barby. Various glucose syrups, wheat gluten and products for animal nutrition are produced in Barby. The history of the location goes back to 1905.
The Cargill plant in Salzgitter-Beddingen
In 1992, Cargill rebuilt a production facility as an oil mill and malt house in Salzgitter- Beddingen . The location is conveniently located for the transshipment of bulk goods directly on the Mittelland Canal . Mainly for the national market, around 115 employees produce oil and meal for the compound feed, biodiesel and food industries. Further activities are the production of malt for breweries and the grain trade ( e.g. as a commodity futures business ).
The Cargill plant in Malchin
The Malchiner plant is located in the central industrial area of the town of Malchin, southeast of the Kummerower See in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The production and storage area covers an area of around 110,000 square meters. Construction of the original US company Citrico began on October 4, 2000. First production started in January 2002 and has been operating under the Cargill name since 2005. In April 2012, the company bought the adjacent, insolvent rapeseed processing plant. The citrus fruit leftovers are mainly delivered to the plant by rail.
Cargill in Switzerland
Cargill International SA has been operating in Switzerland since 1956 and employs over 500 people at seven locations. The head office is in Geneva.
Cargill was one of the leading feed suppliers on the Swiss market until 2017 and operated production facilities in Lucens , Gossau and Kaiseraugst . The company produced premix and compound feed for poultry , pigs , cattle and dairy cattle . Special feed for pets , horses , zoo animals and medical feed. At the end of 2017, the feed business with around 250 employees was taken over by AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA .
criticism
The chocolate industry signed the so-called Harkin-Engel Protocol in September 2001 . This protocol contains measures that should lead to an end to the worst forms of child labor and slavery in the cocoa industry by 2005. A report by ARD in 2010 came to the conclusion that large companies such as Mars Inc. , but also Cargill and Nestlé, still “at least tolerate” child slavery. An evaluation by Tulane University in 2011 found that of the six measures named in the Harkin-Engel Protocol, not a single one was fully implemented.
In 2017, Cargill was accused of involvement in the worsening deforestation of the tropical rainforest . The company bought according to research by environmentalists and the New York Times soybeans from farmers for their cultivation previously by deforestation in the country Bolivia under cultivation had made.
The environmental protection organization Mighty Earth published a report on the company's misconduct in July 2019, calling it "the worst company in the world".
literature
- Wayne G. Broehl, Jr .: Cargill: Trading the World's Grain. Dartmouth College, 1992, ISBN 0-87451-572-6 .
- Wayne G. Broehl, Jr .: Cargill: Going Global. University Press of New England, 1998, ISBN 0-87451-854-7 .
- Wayne G. Broehl, Jr .: Cargill: From Commodities to Customers. University Press of New England, 2008, ISBN 1-58465-694-8 .
- Brewster Kneen: Invisible Giant: Cargill and Its Transnational Strategies. Pluto Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7453-1958-0 .
Web links
- Official website at cargill.com (English)
- Official German website at cargill.de
- Cargill in Austria on cargill.com
- Cargill in Switzerland on cargill.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Executive Team
- ↑ a b c d e Cargill: Envisioning tomorrow - 2016 Annual Report
- ↑ Cargill overview on cargill.de
- ↑ Cargill to buy North American salt assets from Akzo , at www.nytimes.com , accessed March 18, 2018
- ^ Monsanto Agrees to Purchase Cargill International Seed Operations In Central And Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa. PRNewswire, June 29, 1998
- ↑ Laboratory meat: Agricultural giant is also investing. In: schweizerbauer.ch . May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Ziegler: Hunger is organized crime. In: derStandard.at. February 21, 2013, accessed December 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Alfons Deter: "Cargill" gives up Mainz location. March 15, 2016, accessed January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Cargill closes its Mainz-Mombach location: 52 employees affected. AZ Mainz , March 10, 2016, accessed on January 29, 2018 .
- ^ Entry of "Cargill International SA" in the commercial register of the Canton of Geneva . Retrieved November 8, 2017.
- ↑ Aurelius takes over Cargill's Swiss animal feed business . In: aureliusinvest.de, November 6, 2017, accessed on November 8, 2017.
- ↑ Harkin Engel Protocol ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on cocoainitiative.org
- ↑ Dirty chocolate. ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Position: 40: 02-41: 30) Report / documentation by Miki Mistrati on behalf of NDR , 43:23 minutes, German first broadcast on October 6, 2010 in Das Erste
- ↑ Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on cocoainitiative.org (PDF; 3.3 MB)
- ↑ Hiroko Tabuchi and Claire Rigby: “Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back” New York Times, February 24, 2017
- ↑ Phil Aikman, Alex Armstrong, Joel Finkelstein, Glenn Hurowitz, Etelle Higonnet, Mathew Jacobson, Liviya James, Deborah Lapidus, Julian Oram, Lucia von Reusner, Anahita Yousef: Cargill: the Worst Company In the World. Mighty Earth, July 11, 2019, accessed July 11, 2019 .
