The founder of ADM started related business as early as 1902, but it was not until 1905 that the name Archer Daniels was registered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, and ADM company was headquartered in Dido, Illinois, USA. After the establishment of the company, with the development in the following years, ADM's influence expanded to Wisconsin, new york and other places. After the capital accumulated slowly, 1923 acquired Midland Linen Company, which was officially renamed Archer Daniels Midland Company, and the famous ADM Company was born. ADM has gradually expanded its business scope, including flour industry, food processing industry, feed industry, special food industry, cocoa industry and nutrition industry. Since 1980s, ADM has gone global. 1983 Asia-Pacific branch established in Hong Kong; 1986 expanded in Europe and acquired in the Netherlands and Germany; Officially entered China in 2000. Today, ADM has become a huge and intertwined multinational company. Its enterprises include food, beverage, dietotherapy and feed. There are about 270 various manufacturing plants in the world, which are engaged in the production and sales of cocoa and corn processing, food additives, nutritional supplements, steroids and edible oils. In addition, it is also engaged in large-scale industries such as agricultural grain storage and transportation. ADM is the world's first grain and oilseed processing plant, the largest soybean crushing processing plant and corn additive manufacturing plant in the United States, the second largest flour mill in the United States and the fifth largest grain export trading company in the world.
Among the four major grain merchants, ADM has always been famous for attaching importance to research and development. He constantly supports its development and growth through chemical research, and now has a good cooperative relationship with Procter & Gamble. Almost at the beginning of the birth of biofuels, ADM quickly became the largest bioethanol producer in the United States. After President Bush put forward the biofuel plan, ADM supported it with both hands, and ADM recruited the CEO of the former oil company as the CEO of the company. In 2007 alone, the company invested more than $654.38 billion in active fuels, making it the largest producer of active fuel ethanol in the world. The company also announced that it will invest 2.3 billion dollars in this field before 2009, and carry out a series of cooperation plans with companies such as Volkswagen. Bunge Group (a leading agricultural and food company in the world)
Bunge was founded by Johann Peter Gottlieb Bunge, the founder. It was founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 18 18, and its headquarters was moved to Belgium by its grandson in 1859. Initially, the company mainly engaged in spices and rubber business in overseas colonies. 1876, the company moved to Argentina and began to develop in the United States. After Alfred Hirsch, a Jewish grain merchant, joined in, his business began to expand to other crops, including various grains and oilseeds. 1935, Bunge entered North America. After that, the company developed rapidly in North and South America. 1999 officially moved its headquarters to new york, USA. In 2000, Bunge officially entered China. Based on the concept of balanced global development, Bunge increased its investment in Eastern Europe in 2004. Up to now, Bunge has more than 450 factories in 32 countries around the world and has developed into the fourth largest grain export company in the world. According to public reports, Bangji Company is currently the largest grain exporter in Brazil, the second largest bean product exporter in the United States, the third largest grain exporter, the third largest soybean processor, the fourth largest grain exporter and the largest oil crop processor in the world. In addition to food processing and export, Bunge has also expanded its business scope to textiles, fertilizers, coatings and banking, with factories and businesses all over Brazil and the United States.
Among the four major grain merchants, Bunge has a large number of farms in South America in the name of paying attention to the whole process from farm to terminal. He sells fertilizer to farmers, while buying their grain, and then exports it to other countries or carries out deep processing. Cargill was founded by William cakir, a member of the Scottish Marine Corps, in Iowa in 1865. In 1868, Cargill moved its factory to Minnesota and its headquarters to Wisconsin in 1875. Cargill's annual turnover is as high as $90 billion and its annual profit exceeds $2.5 billion. It is the second largest private capital company in the United States, the third largest food production and export company in France, the largest corn feed manufacturer in the United States, the third largest flour processing enterprise and slaughtering and meat packaging processing factory in the United States, and the largest pig and poultry farm (such as broilers and turkeys). Its grain export and trade business is not only the first in the United States, but also the first in the world. At the same time, it also has the largest granary in the United States, from the production and packaging of food to every link of the market, without exception. The company's business spans five continents and 66 countries, making it the best in the world. In addition, it also owns Heihe Asset Management, a hedge fund with assets exceeding $654.38+0 billion, and high-tech and high-return bioengineering research and development plans (including genetic engineering).
It is worth mentioning that Cargill has always attached great importance to logistics, which can be seen from its 400 flat-bottomed grain tugboats and 2,000 large container trucks.
Cargill advocates open and free trade, and its development strategy is mainly to develop the potential market of the third world. Louis Dreyfus
Louis Dreyfus is a multinational group, led by the Frenchman Leo Polder. Louis Dreyfus was founded in 185 1 and headquartered in Paris, France, which initiated and developed European grain export trade. It is France's third largest grain exporter in the world and the first country in the world to export grain to Russia. 150 for more than 50 years, the business of Louis Dreyfus Group has expanded to a very wide range of fields, exchanging views with influential politicians in Europe. Later, the Louis Dreyfus Bank was established as the fifth largest bank in France. The company has offices in many countries and regions and participates in various business activities around the world, with annual sales exceeding 20 billion US dollars. The Paris headquarters manages and formulates the company's development strategy, and plans the business activities of the whole group as a whole. Louis Dreyfus has branches all over the world. Mainly located in Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, Wilton and Memphis.
The latest business activity of Louis Dreyfus is engaged in the production and management of global active fuel oil, including the production and trading of ethanol produced by fermentation or synthesis. The main raw materials used to make fermented ethanol are crops such as sucrose and grain. It has two huge ethanol fermentation plants in Brazil. Through its offices in London and other places, Louis Dreyfus actively participates in the trade of ethanol from production to destination and the development of ethanol market, aiming at realizing the globalization of ethanol market.
The commodity department of Louis Dreyfus Group is engaged in the global trade of agricultural products. It attaches great importance to futures trading to balance risks. In China, Louis Dreyfus (Beijing) Co., Ltd. was established in 1994, and is a self-operated member of Dashang Institute and Zhengshang Institute. In China futures market, the scale of funds with international background is often larger than that of domestic funds.