Cargill
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Cargill, Incorporated is an American multinational food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Founded in 1865 by William Wallace Cargill, it was the largest privately held company in the United States in terms of revenue as of 2023.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Cargill, Incorporated
- Company.logo
- Cargill logo.svg
- Company.image
- Cargill Malt Sheboygan.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 250px
- Company.image_caption
- Cargill Malt in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.industry
- Conglomerate
- Company.successor
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- Company.founder
- William Wallace Cargill
- Company.hq_location
- Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Brian Sikes (chairman and CEO)
- Company.products
- Agricultural services, crop and livestock, food, health and pharmaceutical, industrial and financial risk management, raw materials
- Company.revenue
- (2022)
- Company.operating_income
- (2018)
- Company.net_income
- (2021)
- Company.net_income_year
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1865
- Location
- Minnetonka, United States
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.450240.7 · ISNI 0000 0001 0703 5300
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Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- History
- 19th century
- 20th century
- 21st century
- Criticism
- Child trafficking
- Child labor
- Union busting
- Wage-fixing
- Worker safety during COVID-19
- Land grabbing
- Food contamination
- Deforestation
- Soy
- Palm oil
- Cocoa
- Air pollution
- Tax evasion
- Animal welfare
- Antibiotic usage
- Price fixing
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Cargill, Incorporated is an American multinational food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Founded in 1865 by William Wallace Cargill, it was the largest privately held company in the United States in terms of revenue as of 2023.
Some of Cargill's major businesses include grain and other agricultural commodities such as palm oil, energy, steel, transport, livestock, feed, and producing food ingredients such as starch, glucose syrup, and vegetable oils for application in ultra-processed foods and industrial use. Cargill also has a large financial services arm, which manages risks in the commodity markets for the company.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cargill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.