COMPANY

Giant farming, processing, and distribution company. It is the world's largest privately held corporation, founded by William Cargill in 1865. It remains in the hands of eight members of the Cargill and MacMillan families. A leading producer of genetically engineered seeds. Its beef processing subsidiary issued recalls of more than a million pounds of meat in 2007, had another substantial recall in 2009, and announced an innovative third-party monitoring system for food safety in 2010. 26M pounds of Cargill's ground turkey was recalled in 2011 amid salmonella contamination concerns.

Official Website:
http://www.cargill.com/

Industry:
Agriculture

Ticker:
(private)

Corporate headquarters:
Wayzata, MN

Sales:
$62.9B (2004)

Employees:
101,000 (2004)

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Guillaume Bastiaens	Business	c. 1943		Vice Chairman of Cargill, 1998-2008
Fredric W. Corrigan	Business	c. 1942		CEO of The Mosaic Company, 2004-07
Richard D. Frasch	Business	c. 1954		Senior VP at Cargill
Robert L. Lumpkins	Business	c. 1944		Vice Chairman of Cargill
Gregory R. Page	Business	1952		President and COO of Cargill
James T. Prokopanko	Business	c. 1952		CEO of The Mosaic Company
David W. Raisbeck	Business	c. 1949		Vice Chairman of Cargill
Warren R. Staley	Business	c. 1943		CEO of Cargill

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Richard H. Anderson	Business	1956		CEO of Delta Airlines
Michael Armacost	Diplomat	15-Apr-1937		US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93
Arthur D. Collins, Jr.	Business	10-Dec-1947		CEO of Medtronic, 2001-07
Curt Johnson	Business	c. 1955		Billionaire chairman of JohnsonDiversey
Richard Kovacevich	Business	30-Oct-1943		CEO of Wells Fargo, 1998-2007
Gregory R. Page	Business	1952		President and COO of Cargill
David W. Raisbeck	Business	c. 1949		Vice Chairman of Cargill
Warren R. Staley	Business	c. 1943		CEO of Cargill
Michael W. Wright	Business	c. 1939		CEO of Supervalu, 1981-2001

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert L. Lumpkins	Business	c. 1944		Vice Chairman of Cargill

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Guillaume Bastiaens	Business	c. 1943		Vice Chairman of Cargill, 1998-2008
Michael R. Bonsignore	Business	c. 1941		CEO of Honeywell, 1999-2001

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
ReBecca Koenig Roloff	Business	c. 1954		YWCA of Minneapolis

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alton Brown	TV Personality	30-Jul-1962		Good Eats host

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