Cargill Inc

Headquarters location: 15407 McGinty Rd. West Wayzata, MN 55391 Tel. 612-742-7575 Job offers, investor relations: www.cargill.com

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« ETHICAL » RATING OF CARGILL , group Cargill (famille) and subsidiaries [?] 1 Human: 1 violation(s) of fundamental human rights 1 Environment: 1 major pollution(s) 2 Delinquency: 2 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency 1 Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 1 offshore financial center(s) 6 Influence: 6 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying 1 Advertising & marketing: 1 dubious practice(s) Full profile >>>
Relevance: business & market share year business source 2007 Cargill and ADM control 65 % of the cereals world market. Le Monde D. 2007 Cargill, Archer Daniels and Bunge sell nearly 90 per cent of the grain traded in the world. IPS 2007 Cargill can slaughter 26100 beefs per day, third-largest processing company in the world. Les Echos 2006 Cargill is the second-biggest U.S. meat processor. Dow Jones . 2004 Cargill sells 14,4% of the Phophoric acid used in the world Les Echos 2004 Largest cereal trader in the world, fourth-largest orange juice producer. Largest private company in the US. Cargill itself would export a quarter of the total US' cereal production. Les Echos 2002 Cargill controls 50% of the orange processing capacity in Florida in the United States and the State of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Book World locations & Manufacturing country incentive : address & contact : production type source   Finexcor (50%) : Les Echos   : trituration de soja (13000t/j) Les Echos   : sugar cane milling and ethanol operation   : citrus processing facility   Nantong : Production, 3 oilseed Crushing plants Book   Zibo Cargill Huanghelong Bioengineering Group : Production, ingrédients alimentaires, gomme de xanthane Les Echos   : Production, cocoa processing plant Reuters   67,000 acre Hindoli palm plantation. : plantation d'huile de palme Les Echos   : citrus processing facility   : plantation d'huile de palme Les Echos   Comcereal,network of grain storage facilities in the Teleorman, Giurgiu, Ialomita and Galati regions :   : active in the domestic wheat market and trades feed barley, maize, sunflower seeds and soybeans   Olpo, plants in Podari and Craiova : oilseed crushing, refining and bottling company   Olpo Podari : Rolle, Vaud : Production, Cargill Coal : trading   Kahovka : sunflower seed crushing facility   Donetsk : semences AP The map of tax haven, secret accounts and shell companies Cargill is managed by year name photo position; compensation source 2000Collins, Arthur Director; Corporate . 2000Lumpkins, Robert Chief Financial Officer; Corporate . 2000Page, Greg Chairman; Corporate . 1999Staley, Warren R Chief Executive Officer; Corporate . 1998Armacost, Michael Director; Corporate . 1998Bastiaens, Guillaume Vice-president; Corporate . 1998Cargill, Austen Director; Corporate . 1998DeSimone, Livio D Director; Corporate . 1998Johnson, Curtis Director; Corporate . 1998Kovacevich, Richard Director; Corporate . 1998Liebmann, Marianne Cargill Director; Corporate . 1998MacMillan, David Director; Corporate . 1998MacMillan, Duncan Director; Corporate . 1998MacMillan, William Director; Corporate . 1998Raisbeck, David Vice-president; Corporate . 1998Stitzer, Lucy Director; Corporate . 1998Wright, Michael Director; Corporate . 1975MacMillan, Whitney Chairman; Corporate . Highest paid executives in 2007 Advertising & marketing year dubious practice : image source 2005 slogan: Nourishing Ideas. Nourishing People.; 2004 Arguable partnership: In April 2004, Cargill awarded a two-year, $1 million grant to support a global TNC-Cargill initiative to support conservation and sustainable agriculture projects in three, priority-designated Conservancy sites, including China’s northwest Yunnan province, Brazil’s Amazon region, and along the Mississippi River in the United States.: Book Dubious practices in 2007

Made by year employees <> social impact : country source 2007 153000 2006 149000 2005 124000 2005 -95 Closure/Bankruptcy: Cargill said it will consolidate UK glucose production at Cerestar Manchester, and shut down sweeteners production at the Cerestar Tilbury facility.: United Kingdom 2005 105000 2005 -83 Internal restructuring: Belgium L'echo 2003 98000 2002 97000 2000 84000 1998 -300 Internal restructuring: Les Echos 1998 80600 1989 -100 Canadian L. 1964 5000 Layoff plans and labour conditions in 2007 Environmental impact year country : consequences source 2008 United States of America : Cargill Inc. will pay a $100,000 civil penalty for pollution from the company’s biodiesel refinery in Iowa Falls. Cargill discharged its sludge into the Iowa Falls city treatment plant. During parts of 2005 through 2007, pollutants in the sludge were at enough levels to exceed the limits of the treatment plant. AP 2002 : Manufacture and sells products contributing to the erosion and the impoverishment of the agricultural soils. Book 1998 United States of America brand: InterMountain Canola : Production, purchase or sale of genetically modified organisms which may cause an irreversible genetic pollution, a destruction of the biodiversity and health risks for the consumers. Corporate . Pollutions in 2007 Human impact year country : description 2005 Côte d'Ivoire : Sued for forced child labor by the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) on behalf of three Malian children who were allegedly trafficked to work on plantations in Ivory Coast. “It is unconscionable that Nestle, ADM and Cargill have ignored repeated and well-documented warnings over the past several years that the farms they were using to grow cocoa employed child slave laborers. We had to go to court as a last resort,” said ILRF attorney. Human rights and money laundering in 2007 Influence year purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source 2002 Investment protection and market access (to Mexico and Canada through NAFTA), to Latin America (through FTAA). : Business Roundtable : : US government, senate, congress translate Corporate . 2002 Access to Nigerian market, oil, privatized companies. : Corporate Council on Africa : : US government, senate, congress translate Corporate . 2000 Prevent binding regulation, co- or self-regulation instead. : American Chamber of Commerce's EU Committee : : European Commission translate Corporate . 2000 Prevent binding environmental regulations (environmental protection through economic growth, self-regulation and free trade) : WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) : : United Nations translate Corporate . 1999 Market admission for genetically modified organisms : EuropaBio : : European Commission translate Corporate . 1998 Regulation favorable to company's interests : Contribution to Candidate's Political Action Committee : amount: 175 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate Center for. Influence in 2007 Financials year financial misdemeanor sales income source 2007   88.27 2.34   billion US$ 2006   75.21 1.54   billion US$ 2006 Price-fixing class-action lawsuit in Aberdeen, S.D, Cargill Meat Solutions Corp charged with knowingly using erroneous USDA price reports to pay lower prices for livestock to farmers. Cargill Meat Solutions/Excel was fined $3 million.     Dow Jones . 2005   71.1 1.53   billion US$ 2003   59.89 1.29   billion US$ 2003 Allegedly fixed the price of corn sweeteners in the USA: settled for 24 million US$     Reuters 2002   50.83 0.83   billion US$ 2001   49.2 0.36   billion US$ 2000   47.61 0.48   billion US$ 1998   51.4 0.47   billion US$ Financial delinquency in 2007

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