Archer Daniels Midland
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| Type | Public |
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| Founded | Minneapolis, Minnesota (1902) |
| Headquarters | Decatur, Illinois |
| Key people | G. Allen Andreas, CEO & Chairman |
| Industry | Agribusiness |
| Products | foods, beverages, feed |
| Revenue | File:Green up.png $36.15 billion USD (2004) |
| Employees | 26,317 |
| Website | www.admworld.com |
The Archer Daniels Midland Company NYSE: ADM, based in Decatur, Illinois, operates more than 270 plants worldwide, where cereal grains and oilseeds are processed into numerous products used in food, beverage, nutraceutical, industrial and animal feed markets worldwide.
ADM also provides agricultural storage and transportation services. Company divisions include: ADM Cocoa, ADM Corn Processing, ADM Food Additives, ADM Lecithin, ADM Milling, ADM Monoglycerides, ADM Vitamin E, ADM Protein Specialties, ADM Food Oils. ADM's revenues for fiscal 2003 (ending June 30, 2003) were US $30.708 B.
Recently Archer Daniels Midland have been accused of using cocoa beans made by slaves [1]; see Chocolate and slavery.
Products
Typical products include oils and meal from soybeans, cottonseed, sunflower seeds, canola, peanuts, flaxseed and corn germ, syrup, starch, glucose, dextrose, crystalline dextrose, high-fructose sweeteners, ethyl alcohol, and wheat flour. End uses are consumption by people and livestock, and fuel additives.
References
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Archer_Daniels_Midland" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Daniels_Midland, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
