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| shareholder | country | % | source |
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year | business source |
| 2007 | Cargill and ADM control 65 % of the cereals world market. | Le Monde Diplomatique |
| 2007 | Cargill can slaughter 26100 beefs per day, third-largest processing company in the world. | Les Echos |
| 2007 | Cargill, Archer Daniels and Bunge sell nearly 90 per cent of the grain traded in the world. | IPS |
| 2006 | Cargill is the second-biggest U.S. meat processor. | Dow Jones online |
| 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 |
| 2004 | Cargill sells 14,4% of the Phophoric acid used in the world | 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 |
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| country | address & contact : production type incentive source |
 Argentina | : trituration de soja (13000t/j) Les Echos |
 Brazil | : sugar cane milling and ethanol operation |
 Chile | : citrus processing facility |
 China | Nantong : Production, 3 oilseed Crushing plants Book |
| China | Zibo Cargill Huanghelong Bioengineering Group : Production, ingrédients alimentaires, gomme de xanthane Les Echos |
 Ghana | : Production, cocoa processing plant Reuters |
 Indonesia | 67,000 acre Hindoli palm plantation. : plantation d'huile de palme Les Echos |
 Romania | Comcereal,network of grain storage facilities in the Teleorman, Giurgiu, Ialomita and Galati regions : Novis |
| Romania | : active in the domestic wheat market and trades feed barley, maize, sunflower seeds and soybeans Novis |
| Romania | Olpo, plants in Podari and Craiova : oilseed crushing, refining and bottling company Novis |
 Turkey | : US Government Country Business Profile |
 Ukraine | Kahovka : sunflower seed crushing facility Novis |
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| year name | photo position; compensation source |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2009 | -48 | Internal restructuring: FranceLes Echos | |
| 2009 | -60 | Internal restructuring: France | |
| 2009 | -47 | Internal restructuring: Cargill cuts 47 of the 75 jobs of its food oil bottling factory in Château-Gonthier in Mayenne.: France | Les Echos |
| 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 | Novis |
| 2005 | -83 | Internal restructuring: BelgiumL'echo | |
| 1998 | -300 | Internal restructuring: | Les Echos |
| 1989 | -100 | | Canadian Labour Congress |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
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| year | country : consequences source |
| 2008 | United States of America : Cargill Inc. will pay a $100,000 civil penalty for pollution from the company’s biodiesel refinery in Iowa Falls. Cargill discharged its sludge into the Iowa Falls city treatment plant. During parts of 2005 through 2007, pollutants in the sludge were at enough levels to exceed the limits of the treatment plant. | AP |
| 2002 | : Manufacture and sells products contributing to the erosion and the impoverishment of the agricultural soils. | Book |
| 1998 | United States of America brand: InterMountain Canola : Production, purchase or sale of genetically modified organisms which may cause an irreversible genetic pollution, a destruction of the biodiversity and health risks for the consumers. | Corporate Watch |
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| year | country : consequences source |
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| year | country : description |
| 2005 | Côte d'Ivoire : Sued for forced child labor by the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) on behalf of three Malian children who were allegedly trafficked to work on plantations in Ivory Coast. “It is unconscionable that Nestle, ADM and Cargill have ignored repeated and well-documented warnings over the past several years that the farms they were using to grow cocoa employed child slave laborers. We had to go to court as a last resort,” said ILRF attorney. | Novis |
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| year | country : description source |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | | | source |
| 2007 |
| 88,27 | 2,34 | | | billion US$ | |
| 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 $3 million. |
| | | | | | Dow Jones online |
| 2005 |
| 71,1 | 1,53 | | | billion US$ | |
| 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$ | |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | assets | buyback | source |
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| 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 Watch |
| 2002 | Access to Nigerian market, oil, privatized companies. : Corporate Council on Africa : : US government, senate, congress translate | Corporate Watch |
| 2000 | Prevent binding regulation, co- or self-regulation instead. : American Chamber of Commerce's EU Committee : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 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 Europe Observatory |
| 1999 | Market admission for genetically modified organisms : EuropaBio : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 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 Responsive Politics |
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| year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
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| 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 |
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