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Volume 69, No. 3 / Nov. - Dec. 2004
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Day in the Life on DVD
Two DVD versions (one eight minutes and one
25 minutes) of the Day-in-the-Life-of-Cargill
project are available to locations at no cost.
Both are set to music and feature video panning over the images to enliven the presentation. The long version includes over 500
images from the 3,000 submitted. Employees
attending the Recognition Conference each
received a copy. If you see a business use for
a DVD at your location, send your request by
e-mail to Ann Fischer at hdqt.
IN THIS ISSUE
Editor’s Note:
The entire feature space in this magazine is given over to
images submitted by employees around the world. We have
expanded the issue by eight pages to provide 40 pages of
EDITOR
PAUL DIENHART
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
BILL BUCKNER
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photographs. Even so, there wasn’t room for many
excellent photos. Fortunately, there is an alternative for
people to see the complete collection (see below).
BILL BITUNJAC
ELIZABETH CONLON
LISA VICKSTROM
The staff of Cargill News International would like to thank
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
CARGILL PEOPLE WORLDWIDE
LISA VICKSTROM
The mission of Cargill News International is to be
a voice of Cargill’s Strategic Intent in action, as
Cargill people around the world work to create
distinctive value for their customers through
innovation, high performance and customer
focus. The magazine is published six times a
year for all English-reading employees.
the thousands of employees who made the special effort to
contribute to this project. This is your issue – compiled by
the people of Cargill. Thank you for sharing. Looking
through the images, we were impressed by the pride people
take in their work; amazed by the diversity of businesses,
people and locations that represent Cargill; heartened by
the effort Cargill people make in their communities; and
amused by the ability of employees to have fun and
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THE CARGILL VISION
• Our Purpose is to be the global leader in
nourishing people.
• Our Mission is to create distinctive value.
• Our Approach is to be trustworthy, creative
and enterprising.
• Our Performance Measures are engaged
employees, satisfied customers, enriched
communities and profitable growth.
ON THE COVER
During one week in July,
Check out the ‘Day in the Life’ Website Almost all the
images submitted during the week of July 19, 2004, can be
found on the special ‘Day in the Life of Cargill’ Website. The
site was unveiled during the opening of the worldwide
Recognition Conference in Minneapolis on Oct. 26. There
are search functions to allow you to find images of interest.
This site can be found at photos.cargill.com.
DEPARTMENTS
Cargill employees around the world submitted
more than 3,000 images of their activities
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(photo at left). A photographic portrait of Cargill
begins on page 10.
IN THIS ISSUE
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Cargill to purchase leading Sixth soybean plant
Brazilian supplier of
opens in Brazil
RIO VERDE, Brazil – Cargill has opened
poultry and pork
To help meet the increasing demand for
high quality, value-added poultry and pork
products around the world, Cargill has
reached an agreement to acquire majority
ownership of Seara Alimentos SA, a
leading Brazilian branded poultry and
pork processor with 14,500 employees.
Seara processes and markets raw and
cooked chicken, pork and branded
processed products to customers
worldwide, with annual sales exceeding
$650 million.
“The acquisition of Seara is an
opportunity for Cargill to enter a new line
of business in Brazil,” said Sergio Barroso,
president of Cargill Brazil. “Brazil is well
positioned to help meet the increasing
demand for high quality poultry, pork and
value-added food products around the
world.”
Seara is one of Brazil’s major poultry
and pork processors with nine plants in
Brazil and offices in Argentina, Holland
and Singapore. It is Brazil’s third largest
exporter of pork and poultry, and its
products reach more than 70 countries.
The business will join Cargill’s existing
value-added poultry, beef and pork
processing operations in Argentina,
Canada, Central America, Europe,
Thailand, Australia and the United States.
“Seara will have stronger growth
prospects by being part of Cargill’s global
network,” says Julio Cardoso, president
and chief executive officer of Seara.
The transaction is subject to approval
by regulatory authorities. With the
acquisition of Seara, Cargill will employ
nearly 31,000 people in Latin America.
“Brazil is well
positioned to help
meet the increasing
demand for high
quality poultry, pork
and value-added
food products around
the world.”
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its sixth soybean processing plant –
a $65 million facility in this city in the
state of Goiás. Authorities attending the
opening ceremony included Acting
President of Brazil José Alencar Gomes da
Silva; Roberto Rodrigues, minister of
Agriculture; and Marconi Perillo Junior,
governor of the state of Goiás.
In his speech to local farmers, Cargill
customers, government authorities and
other guests, Rodrigues stressed the
importance of the Brazilian agribusiness,
noting that 62 percent of Brazil’s land is
suitable for farming. Da Silva pointed out
the importance of the state of Goiás in
Brazilian agribusiness.
The plant will process close to 500,000
metric tons of local soybeans per year and
create 80 new direct jobs. Products
include soybean meal for livestock feed
and degummed soybean oil. About half
the output will supply the domestic market, and the other half will be exported.
The state-of-the-art plant incorporates
best practices in safety, automation,
quality and environmental controls.
Water used in the plant will be clean and
recycled for other uses.
The Rio Verde location is in a prime
soybean-growing area and also offers
transportation advantages. Cargill, which
has operated in the state of Goiás for
26 years, processes 20 percent of the
soybeans harvested in the state, according
to José Luiz Glaser, general manager of
Cargill’s soybean operations in Brazil.
“Now with Cargill’s new
plant in Rio Verde, farmers
will have another reason
to plant more soybeans
and expand the potential of local agriculture,” said Glaser.
Currently, close to
3,000 Goiás farmers sell
their soybean harvest to
Cargill.
Cargill is the largest soybean
exporter in Brazil with 130 warehouses
and originating offices in nine Brazilian
states. The new plant means Cargill’s
Brazilian processing operations will have a
total capacity of 12,500 metric tons a day.
ON THE MOVE
GOURMET CLASSIC. Cargill Brazil has licensed Gourmet
Classic mayonnaise from Unilever Bestfoods, further
strengthening its position as a consumer foods supplier
in Brazil. Gourmet Classic is a leading premium brand in
Brazil. Cargill has supplied vegetable oil consumer
products to Brazilian consumers for 30 years, starting
with Liza soybean oil, Brazil’s first premium cooking oil.
Cargill Brazil buys
vegetable oil business
SAO PAULO, Brazil – Cargill Foods of
Brazil has purchased the vegetable fats
business of the Maeda Group, one of the
largest and best-known conglomerates in
Brazilian agribusiness. The vegetable fats
business that Maeda sold to Cargill
includes more than 120 different products
along with a 10-year-old manufacturing
plant in Itumbiara, state of Goiás.
The acquisition allows Cargill to
broaden its product offering and better
meet its objective of providing
innovative solutions to its oil
and vegetable fats
customers.
The Cargill Foods business in Brazil produces
and distributes an extensive line of food products,
including cocoa
byproducts, hydrogenated
vegetable fats, soy lecithin,
special flours and more. Its
product line also includes a number of
well-established consumer brands, such
as Liza, Purilev, and Mazola cooking oils
and Gallo and La Espanola olive oils.
Russian construction in
Malt and Sweeteners
totals over $100 million
EFREMOV, Russia – Cargill is investing
more than $100 million to build a malt plant
and a sweeteners plant at the site of its
corn syrup facility here in the Tula region,
240 miles (380 km) southeast of Moscow.
Cargill acquired a Soviet-built corn
syrup plant in Efremov in 1995, investing
more than $60 million to modernize the
plant. Today, the company is a leading supplier of liquid sweeteners to the confectionery and beer industries in Russia. It
also produces food and industrial starch,
along with agricultural feed products.
Dominique Le Doeuil, leader of the
Cargill Sweeteners and Starches business
in Russia, cited good cooperation from the
region’s officials as a major reason for the
additional investment. “This and the
potential we see in our employees and in
the Tula region are the key factors in our
decision to invest further in Efremov,” he
told government officials gathered at the
official groundbreaking in August.
Local construction firms will benefit
from the expansion, and the new plants
Gerdau Ameristeel to acquire
North Star Steel
Gerdau Ameristeel has agreed to purchase Cargill’s North Star
Steel business. The purchase agreement includes the four
minimills in St. Paul, Minnesota; Wilton, Iowa; Calvert City,
Kentucky; and Beaumont, Texas; three wire rod processing
facilities in Beaumont, Texas; Carrollton, Texas;
and Memphis, Tennessee; and a grinding ball facility
in Duluth, Minnesota.
The purchase price for the acquired assets is
$266 million in cash plus the assumption of certain
liabilities of the business. The transaction is
expected to close before the end of 2004.
“This transaction combines the professional
talents and solid reputations of two exceptional organizations,” said Phillip Casey, president
and CEO of Gerdau Ameristeel. “The consolidation of the North Star team with Gerdau
Ameristeel is a dynamic step in the continuing revitalization of the North American steel
industry. This combination will provide new
opportunities for the employees, customers and
associated stakeholders of both companies.”
Gerdau Ameristeel is the second largest minimill
steel producer in North America.
will require an additional 300,000 metric
tons of wheat and barley from local
farmers. The majority of grain the Cargill
facility processes is locally produced.
The two new plants are designed to
create new business opportunities for
Cargill in supplying a wider range of
locally produced ingredients to the
regions’ food and drink producers.
Infant nutrition JV begins in China
Arachidonic acid (ARA), an essential fatty acid, has long been recognized as an important component of infant nutrition. Cargill
Health & Food Technologies recently formed a
joint venture agreement with Wuhan Alking
Bioengineering Co. Ltd., the No. 1 ARA
producer in China serving the Chinese
infant formula business.
In conjunction with DHA, an omega-3
essential fatty acid, ARA helps support the
development of infants’ brains and eyes. Found
naturally in breast milk, ARA and DHA are
becoming important ingredients in infant
formula globally.
“We see the opportunity to serve
our global customers in China
and select geographies with
their increasing needs for ARA,”
said Ted Ziemann, president,
Cargill Health & Food
Technologies. “We view Alking as a
great partner to aid in serving our customers with the high quality ARA oil and
powder products that they demand.”
GREEN POWER. To mark its 20th anniversary, employees
of Cargill’s agricultural businesses in Swinderby,
England, came to work dressed as 1980s television
personalities. Joan Collins, Madonna, Kung Fu and
Superwoman all showed up. Peter Croot, seed manager
for Banks Cargill Agriculture, earned the “Best Dressed”
award for his angry Incredible Hulk impersonation. Each
employee donated 1 pound sterling to charity, which was
matched by the company. A staff lunch attended by 250
people included a quiz on Cargill and life in the 1980s.
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New ‘HR Direct’ sets stage
for global growth
Beginning Jan. 1, employees in North
America will notice a facelift for
HR Direct, Cargill’s self-service Human
Resources Web site. Powered by worldclass technology from PeopleSoft, the site
will have improved navigation, language
options and security access. But that’s
only half the story.
“The real significance of this change will
be combining employee data from
75 places today into essentially a one-stop
resource for HR, employees and
managers,” said Nancy Siska, corporate
vice president of Human Resources.
“That’ll make it much easier to gather
accurate information about our workforce
for business-planning purposes. It also
serves as a starting point for building a
global HR infrastructure, which is important as Cargill grows around the world.”
As part of the overhaul of HR Direct,
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a team of Cargill HR and I/T professionals
reviewed more than 300 current HR
processes against industry best practices.
In addition to standardizing processes, the
new system will also save money by eliminating the use of an outdated, expensive
mainframe system.
“From an employee perspective, the
system will have a new look and feel, and
it should be easier to use,” said Les Iceton,
project co-leader. “Employees in the U.S.
will be able to do everything they can
today on HR Direct, while employees in
Canada will have access to many new selfservice features online, such as making
address or benefit-selection changes.”
The project was designed so it could
provide a truly global system. However,
the initial rollout is limited to North
America. Rollout to other geographies will
be considered on the basis of the experience in North America.
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Cargill Salt has won Environmental
Project of the Year honors from the
San Francisco section of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. Cargill’s
16,000 acres of former salt ponds is
being converted to natural wetlands.
Cargill Salt arranged permits and is
leading construction of 14 water-control
structures for the project.
Cargill’s businesses in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, contributed $25,000, along with
a matching $25,000 from Cargill
corporate, to open the Cargill Nutrition
Center, a commercial kitchen that
supplies “Meals on Wheels” to 500
homebound residents in three counties.
In a “Suppliers Summit” meeting in
Toronto attended by all of McDonald’s
Canadian suppliers, Sun Valley Foods
of Canada received the Supplier
Excellence Award. “Sun Valley Foods
continues to demonstrate that it is
capable of achieving excellent results,”
said Geoff Giles, senior manager of
supply chain management for
McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada
Limited.
Sweeteners North America has been
named Vendor of the Year by Tagomi,
a major manufacturer of tomato-based
products with operations in California
and Japan. The award was based on
good manufacturing processes, superior customer service, flawless execution
of support documents, consistent
quality and customer collaboration.
CELEBRATING 48 YEARS. Kitengele Mwaisaka,
a maintenance employee with Cargill Kenya Ltd.,
recently had his 48th anniversary with Cargill.
He was congratulated by Kees Kempenaar, lead
controller of Cargill Cocoa. Mwaisaka originally
joined Cargill’s cotton business as a messenger.
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ON THE MOVE
Taylor Packing in Wyalusing,
Pennsylvania, and the Blair, Nebraska,
plant of North American Sweeteners have
both been recertified with star status in
the Voluntary Protection Program, the
highest safety recognition of the U.S.
Department of Labor. Cargill Value Added
Meats’ feed mill in Harrisonburg, Virginia,
recently earned the star status recognition
for the first time.
Tip Top Industrial, Cargill’s poultry
company in Nicaragua, was honored
by the Nicaraguan government as a
“Leader Company in Environment,
Health and Safety” for the third
consecutive year.
C I T I Z E N S H I P
PEOPLE PRACTICES
Cargill throughout U.S.
shows its appreciation for
its truck drivers
Locations across the United States spent a
week in August personally greeting truck
drivers and presenting them with coffee
mugs, free food and a letter of appreciation. “Driving to be Safe and Secure” was
the theme that drivers saw on the thankyou banners displayed at locations.
Cargill depends on outside drivers to
deliver the majority of its products.
Phil Deeney, logistics manager for
North Star Steel, suggested the companywide effort. Deeney said discussions with
trucking firms showed that drivers really
appreciate some form of recognition.
Some 5,000 drivers across the country
received personal thanks at Cargill facilities during the week.
“Truck driving is very hard work, and
there is an increasing problem in retaining
truck drivers,” said Gene Vant Hof,
manager of corporate programs for
Transportation and Logistics. “We need
to ask ourselves, ‘How can we be more
driver-friendly so truck drivers will want
to haul our loads?’ We’re also working
with our customers, such as food
warehouses, to promote greater
Cargill India remodels
124-year-old school
An elementaryschool constructed in 1880
in Jamnager, India, was overdue for a
remodeling. Students sat on the floor
instead of at desks, the wiring was unsafe
and the walls and roof were crumbling.
Cargill’s Crop Nutrition employees at the
Rozy Terminal decided to do something
about it.
A volunteer team of employees from
the terminal and from J.M. Baxi, Cargill’s
driver friendliness.”
The effort definitely distinguished
Cargill with the drivers, according to John
Miller, operations manager for Cargill
Meat Logistics Solutions, which leases
trucks from owner-operators. “Drivers
were especially impressed that multiple
Cargill locations were showing their
appreciation,” he said.
Vant Hof said Cargill’s U.S. operations
employ some 226 trucking firms and thousands of drivers. “Our trucking expenses
are bigger than a lot of companies’ total
sales,” he said. “These drivers are
extremely important to our business. We
see this event as the first of many.”
stevedoring company, did most of the
remodeling. The entire school was
repainted and rewired. Lights and ceiling
fans were installed.Roof tiles were
replaced,anda walland gate were built.
Desks and tables for the students and
teachers were provided.
“The school has 1,200 students in two
shifts – boys in the morning and girls in
the afternoon,” said Erappa Nagaraja,
Rozy Terminal engineer. “After the
improvements, the teachers and students
commented on how much they now look
forward to coming to school each day.”
The next step in Cargill’s support of the
school will be offering scholarships for
excellence in academics.
Cargill’s Rozy Terminal is a unique
floating port that provides a way to ship
fertilizer to farmers in India’s northern
Punjab area.
Don Pierce (left), a driver for M. Bruenger Co.,
accepted a coffee cup and thanks from Don Tawzer,
traffic coordinator at Cargill’s beef plant in
Dodge City, Kansas.
Before and after shots show a dramatic difference in
remodeled classrooms.
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Cargill Pork gift stuns
school officials
BEARDSTOWN, Illinois – Cargill Pork has
donated $150,000 to a local high school to
encourage interest in the agricultural sciences as a career path. Jim Lewis, school
superintendent, said he was stunned by the
amount the company was willing to donate.
A gift of $100,000 goes to the
Horticulture and Aquaculture Center in
the new science wing of the high school.
An additional $50,000 supports the
school’s Window on Science curriculum.
“These gifts are part of Cargill’s ongoing
commitmenttotheBeardstownschoolsand
our community’s most important resource
– our youth,” Steve Pirkle, manager of the
pork-processing plant, told the local newspaper. “This is another way that Cargill
nourishes people and possibilities.”
The contribution was sponsored by a
combined grant from Cargill Pork and the
Cargill Global Partnership Fund.
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BANGLADESH FLOOD RELIEF. Torrential rains in July and August raised all three river systems in this low-lying
country, creating massive flooding. Cargill’s agent, W&W Grains, distributed rice, sugar, salt, biscuits, medicine and
other supplies in many areas of Bangladesh, using boats to deliver the food.
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ARGENTINE KINDERGARTEN. Here in Vichigasta, in
northwestern Argentina where Cargill has an olive
plantation, employees have made playground
improvements and built a security fence for the village
kindergarten. Future plans include building classrooms
and a principal’s office, improving the restrooms and
installing a new heating system. Many Cargill
employees send their children to the school, which is
too small for the number of children in the area.
BUSINESS CONDUCT
‘BEEF BACCALAUREATE’ FOR JOURNALISTS. Jim Rathke, general manager of the Cargill Meat Solutions beef plant in
Plainview, Texas, explained to a group of broadcast and print reporters how Cargill uses video imaging to assess
beef quality and grade. The September education program was hosted by Texas Tech University and coordinated by
the American Meat Institute and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Reporters spent a day at the beef plant
and also visited Cargill’s Caprock cattle feeding business in Lockney, Texas.
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OLIVER’S HOUSE. In Benoni, a town near Johannesburg,
South Africa, Cargill is the principal sponsor of Oliver’s
House, a facility supplying free education to
underprivileged adults and children in math, English
and computer science. Cargill provided a complete
renovation of the facility, including carpets, desks and
textbooks.
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MINNEAPOLIS –
Working in groups of
eight, 100 female employees from across North
America shared personal
stories, offered advice and made
connections to help in their
Cargill careers at the first-ever
Cargill Women’s Forum.
Kathleen Bader, president
and CEO of Cargill Dow,
presented the keynote speech.
“This has been the most
dynamic forum I’ve attended in
my 23 years at Cargill,” said
Bonnie Stephenson, transportation and logistics manager for
Cargill Value-Added Meats in
Wichita, Kansas. Stephenson
was one of the presenters in the forum’s
concluding session, which was attended
by Cargill’s Corporate Leadership Team
and a group of senior business leaders.
“We can’t sit around and feel sorry that
male colleagues don’t appreciate us,”
Stephenson said. “We need to make things
happen. So network, ask for a mentor –
get the help you need to reach your goals.”
Part of that help could be the
connections female employees make with
other women at Cargill. In reporting on
what they had learned, each team sent a
representative to the front of the room
carrying a symbolic cluster of clippedtogether carabineers (the clips mountain
climbers use to connect ropes to one
another). Each team described how they
would stay in touch with one another,
whether through phone conferences,
meetings or e-mails.
“The forum was a way to link women
together and plant the seeds of
leadership,” said Jennifer Smith, cost-ofgoods manager for CAN. Smith was one of
24 volunteers from the Cargill Women’s
Council (CWC) who organized the forum.
More than 700 female employees in North
America applied for the forum’s 100 available slots.
“All of you were offered an opportunity
this week to have some time for reflection
and renewal,” Nancy Siska, corporate vice
president of Human Resources, told the
group. “I want to challenge you, as you go
back to your normal routines, to take
what you’ve learned and share it. Sharing
your learnings will help others on their
career journey.”
“Remember,” Siska joked, “as women,
we’re willing to ask for directions.”
Vice Chairman Dave Raisbeck is the
long-time corporate sponsor of the
Women’s Council. “I was told by a CWC
member that I will never know what it
feels like to be a woman. This is true, but I
will never know what it is like to be a
Japanese male, either. We need to bridge
these gaps by valuing our differences and
trying to understand each other. I submit,
if we can collectively learn to value differences, we will have a much stronger
company.”
The three-day forum was held in
September at the Oakridge Conference
Center near Minneapolis headquarters.
Two representatives from Asia and one
from Europe “audited” the conference to
bring back ideas for similar events in their
geographies.
Standing before the group, Stephenson
said her personal pledge was to provide a
recap of the forum for her supervisors in
Wichita. “And I’m not going to be afraid to
put some of the mushy stuff in it,” she
said. “That’s me.”
The Teams’ Report
Some of the observations of the 13 teams
at the Cargill Women’s Forum included the
following:
Be yourself. If you come across as
genuine and believable, you will earn the
respect of co-workers and customers.
It’s OK to bring your whole self to work –
including the confidence to display
genuine emotion in the workplace.
People will assume things about you.
Speak up. You need to communicate what
you want and where you want to go in
your career.
Networking is not about getting something
from someone. It is about sharing.
Your career journey is your personal responsibility, but you can draw on a group for
support.
Play off your strengths and develop your
weaknesses.
Be willing to take a risk. Nothing works
better to get past people’s preconceived
perceptions of you.
Ayako Odaka from Malt
Eurasia in Japan was a guest
at the forum. Employees in
Europe and Asia are looking
at the idea of starting
Women’s Councils in their
geographies.
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Cargill people worldwide documented and
celebrated their activities during the week
of July 19, 2004.
ADay
in the
Life of Cargill
BY BILL BUCKNER – CHIEF RECOGNITION OFFICER
learly, the third week in July was a busy one
for Cargill employees. They worked with customers, ran plants, conducted safety drills,
stocked food shelves, bought and tended cattle, cut
meat, walked fields with farmers, shipped grain
across the oceans and had some fun on soccer
pitches and volleyball courts.
We know all this because we have documentation.
Cargill people worldwide responded to the Day in the
Life of Cargill photography project. We had more than
3,000 images sent in from every corner of the world.
Many of you may already have browsed through the
Cargill Website where these images are displayed
(http://photos.cargill.com).
This special, expanded issue of Cargill News
International presents a sampling of some of the
images we thought were most memorable and representative of Cargill, its people and activities. With more
than 3,000 images to work from, many wonderful
shots did not make the final layout. Our apologies in
advance if you don’t see your image here. What can I
say? We aren’t infallible.
I want to thank everyone who made the effort to
take photographs of their colleagues and businesses
during that week in July. All of you worked on recognition. That is what this is about: recognizing that Cargill
is made up of you, me and more than 100,000 other
people. It’s what we do collectively that defines this
company. This project was designed to recognize and
celebrate that fact.
Let me quickly tell just a few of the stories you will
find in the following pages.
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A striking picture of children proudly holding up
Purina book bags was an image captured on July 20.
Cargill Animal Nutrition employees like plant manager
Danny Villanueva and technical director Dr. Stefan
Langer delivered the bags to poor children in the
Philippine town of Baliwag Bulacan. The business’
mascot, a friendly pig in bibbed overalls and a checked
shirt named “Hogi,” entertained the children. As
described on the entry, the mascot is “a larger than life
experience of our brand,” a way to demonstrate the
values of fun, community, relationships and family.
On the other side of the world in Seattle, Corky
Swanson, regional manager for Cargill Value Added
Meat Solutions, was dockside during provisioning of
the fishing fleet. Cargill t-bone steaks, roast beef and
pastrami were being loaded on an outbound trawler
with a crew of more than 400.
These sailors eat very well. And their food is specially packaged “individually wrapped steaks” and treated
with advanced food-safety measures at our cookedmeat plant in Nebraska City. The last thing you need in
the middle of the ocean is an outbreak of stomach flu.
In honor of the photo, Corky wore his honorary chef’s
jacket. He graduated at the top of his class from the culinary sales professionals program that Cargill designed
with the prestigious Culinary Institute of America.
While Corky worked with customer Food Service of
America to supply Seattle’s commercial fishing fleet,
Heather Kuttner, Cargill AgHorizons farm marketer,
inspected a soybean field with her customers: farmers
Todd and Robert Reihs of Madelia, Minnesota. Working
out of Port Cargill, Heather talks with Todd almost daily.
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She designs a marketing program for the father-andson team, including Cargill’s industry-leading riskmanagement contracts. Using the “Pro Pricing Rally
Catcher” contract this year, the Reihs family saw their
soybeans earn more than $1 a bushel above the price
offered by the cash market.
Thanks to that kind of service, the Reihs family
does all their business with Cargill, driving past
numerous country elevators to take their crop the
100 miles to Port Cargill.
Last but not least, we had some fun that July week.
Employees at our Cobham, England, headquarters looked
out their windows to see a pantomime horse taking some
practice gallops around the grounds. Two Public Affairs
employees donned a horse costume to participate in a
charity fundraiser at nearby Sandown racetrack.
You might say they were chomping at the bit to be a
good NEIGHbor.
The Cargill horse finished 8th in the charity race, but it
easily was the best looking, featuring a mane, tail, eyelashes and hooves in Cargill green. National television
showed the horse proudly displaying the Cargill logo.
I would be remiss not to recognize the efforts of two
people who really made this project a reality. Bill
Bitunjac and Lisa Vickstrom of Public Affairs in
Minneapolis led the effort to create a Website and catalogue the submitted images. And my thanks to all of
you who took camera in hand and showed “clear as a
picture” what we do at Cargill.
I hope you enjoy the following pages, which show
the worldwide day in the life of Cargill.
BLAIR, NEBRASKA, USA
Corn Milling
Waste Water Treatment
Plant through the fog,
looking east just after
sunrise.
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SONGYUAN, CHINA
Cerestar
Manufactuing operators.
Cerestar China Resources
Maize Industry.
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TAMWORTH,
AUSTRALIA
NANJING, CHINA
Cargill Meat
John Vernon,
stockyards supervisor,
gathering cattle.
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Agribrands Purina
New Purina sales
team members taking
a test in the training
center.
GENEVA,
SWITZERLAND
BLAIR, NEBRASKA,
USA
Cargill International
Hans Rueedi, CFO of
Cargill International
SA, performs magic at
an employees’ yearend celebration.
FSD
Wendell Bell, plant
technician, at the
Cargill Polyols
microlab.
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Below:
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA
GOSC NA
Mary Ann Jablonski,
Admin. manager, restocking a community
food pantry.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
DECATUR, ALABAMA, USA
GOSC Australia
The Breakfast Club, an employee volunteer
activity at Albert Park College in Melbourne.
Pictured are Andrew Soos, credit assessor
officer and one student from Albert Park
Secondary College.
Sweeteners North America
Rhonda Ezell, a microbiologist in the quality lab
of the Decatur plant, volunteers with the
community ambulance service.
Below:
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
Cargill Salt
Cintia Silene Tavares at work in the quality lab.
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SUNGAI LILIN, INDONESIA
MAKATI CITY, PHILIPPINES
Palm Oil
Mill engineer Lindung Samosir presents books
to a school teacher at the primary school in
Sungei Lilin, the community near Cargill’s
palm plantations.
Cargill Animal Nutrition
Employees of Cargill’s Purina feed mill
conduct a “Win a Piglet” raffle for customers
who receive an entry for each five kilos of feed
they purchase.
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GENEVA,
SWITZERLAND
Ocean Transportation
The ocean freight markets
can be stressful, so Victor
Mottier has a small oasis of
whimsy on his desktop:
a collection of small toys
found in Kinder Surprise
eggs. Mottier is an
apprentice in the credit
control department.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND
Grain and Oilseeds
Pattaporn, Kunnaree,
Usanee, Amornrat,
Pornsre, and Porntipa,
take time for afternoon
refreshment and good
reading.
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MAKATI, PHILLIPPINES
Cargill Animal Nutrition
Children proudly show
their Purina bags during
our “Hogi Outreach
Program.” Cargill Animal
Nutrition Philippines
annually donates school
supplies to indigent
students as part of its
community service
program.
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NEWARK,
CALIFORNIA, USA
Salt
Ricardo Anaya, a class
packaging operator.
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TOKYO, JAPAN
Malt
Meeting with customers
at Asahi Brewery’s Suita
Plant. L-R: President
Yoshioka of Asahi;
Ayako Odaka, Cargill Japan
malt manager;
and Kazuo Tokuni,
Cargill Japan Strategic
Business Development
manager.
KUALA LUMPUR,
MALAYSIA
MEMPHIS,
TENNESSEE, USA
GOSC Asia
Cargill’s soccer team
prepares for a match with
the fire department at a
local school field.
Cotton
Earnestine Lurry,
inventory control clerk,
is locating bales to update
the warehouse system.
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SEATTLE,
WASHINGTON, USA
Cargill Meat Solutions
Cargill Foodservice
Regional Manager Corky
Swanson monitors loading
of several Cargill products
onto Supreme Alaska’s
fishing vessel.
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Top:
BUENOS AIRES,
ARGENTINA
GOSC
Sector Balanza examines
grain quality at the weigh
station.
Middle:
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
Tax
Employees take a break to
do stretching exercises.
Bottom:
SAN PEDRO SULA,
HONDURAS
Cargill Animal Nutrition
Francisco Pineda,
maintenance team
member, conducts a
safety inspection.
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SONGYUAN, CHINA
Cerestar
Unloading northern China
corn at the Cerestar China
Resources plant.
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WORMER,
NETHERLANDS
Cocoa
Employees at Fennema
Plant in Deventer.
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
TIMBERVILLE, VIRGINIA,
USA
Cocoa
Working on cocoa analysis
were (L-R): Eliana Ianez,
merchant; Valeria Militelli,
sales manager; Cristina
Santos, technical manager;
and Ana Pontes, supervisor.
Turkey Products
Elvira Romero,
production worker.
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FINCA PARMA,
GUATEMALA
and Oscar Ruiz (center),
office assistant.
Cargill Animal Nutrition
Erick Lorenzana (right),
Purina territory manager,
visits his customers
Cristobal Jolon (left),
farm manager,
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SONGYUAN, CHINA
OSAKA, JAPAN.
Cerestar
Operator Liu Fuchen
works on the packing
line for spray-dried
products at the Cerestar
China Resources
corn-processing plant.
Cargill Meat
Solutions
Mayumi Kawabe,
sales assistant for
Meat Solutions, talks
with a beef customer
on the phone.
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TEGUCIGALPA,
HONDURAS
Cargill Animal
Nutrition
Hernan Cavalieri,
plant manager,
catches up on some
office work.
DALHART, TEXAS,
USA
Caprock
Cowboy Danny
Hernandez, Jr.,
takes a break from
pen riding to decorate
his horse.
MARTORELL, SPAIN
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Financial Service
Center
Accountant Mercè
Bravo (center)
still has a happy smile
on her face by the
middle of the day.
GOSC
Pam Rogers, oilseeds
manager for futures
trading at the Chicago
Board of Trade,
checks a market
profile on her
computer screen.
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EDDYVILLE, IOWA, USA
Sweeteners North America
Loading railcars at the
Eddyville plant.
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BAHIA BLANCA,
ARGENTINA
GOSC
Contractors build a new
group of silos at the Bahia
Blanca Port. It is part of an
elevator project.
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FINCA LOS ANGELES,
GUATEMALA
Cargill Animal Nutrition
Hugo Giron (left),
poultry specialist, takes a
blood sample from a
chicken held by farm
owner Juan Pablo Sarj.
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MADELIA,
MINNESOTA, USA
Todd (left) and Robert
Reihs.
Cargill AgHorizons
Farm marketer
Heather Kuttner, checks
a soybean field with her
customers, the
father-and-son team of
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MARYSVILLE,
CALIFORNIA, USA
LONDON,
ONTARIO, CANADA
Meat Solutions
Lance Mertex and
Alfredo Valenzuela
hard at work.
Sun Valley Foods
Hieu Nguyen, a
stakeholder in
Cargill’s chicken
processing plant.
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GURGAON,
INDIA
Refined
Oils
Inspecting the first
product off the line.
Hardeep Singh
(center), president of
Cargill India, checks
the product with
S. Viraraghavan, plant
operations manager.
DOTITO
DEPOT,
ZIMBABWE
Cargill
Cotton
Gary Taylor (right),
leader of the Cotton
Business Unit, and
Paul Kinney (second
from right), president
of Cargill Cotton UK,
visit a cotton depot.
Chris Zenbasi (black
shirt), area manager,
introduces them to
area farmers.
ABIDJAN,
IVORY COAST
Cocoa
Tia Gaston
cleans the bean
preparation area.
ABIDJAN,
IVORY
COAST
Cocoa
Cargill employees
meet with a village
chief. Employees are
(L-R): Zamble Albert,
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Komet Angenord,
Kone Bouake, Regis
Attieban and Frederic
Anzoua.
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UBERLANDIA, BRAZIL
Grain & Oilseeds
Unloading chemical
products at the
citric acid plant.
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IZEGEM, BELGIUM
Refined Oils Europe
Rita Pennecoucke is
learning about the safe
handling of chemicals.
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ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
GOSC EU
Loadout Supervisor Evan Marmarinos
gets his morning workout.
Far Lef:t
COBHAM, UNITED KINGDOM
Public Affairs
Shirley Purchese, Admin assistant, and
Francis DeRosa, media coordinator, try
on a horse costume for a charity race at
the prestigious Sandown race course near
Cargill’s office.
WAGGA WAGGA, AUSTRALIA
Cargill Beef
Computers in the IT department at the
meat plant sport some unusual
decorations.
MONTICELLO, MINNESOTA, USA
Sunny Fresh Foods
Intern Gene Chyou donned the chicken
costume of the Sunny Fresh mascot to
escort the Miss Monticello queen
candidate.
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SINGAPORE
CITS- Singapore
IT analyst Mun-Choon Lim
shoots a Finger Blaster
across the room. It not only
offers a little fun, but keeps
people alert.
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Top to bottom:
MARTORELL, SPAIN
Cerestar
Gumersindo Marti,
a chef at Cerestar’s
plant, works in the
kitchen.
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TOKYO, JAPAN
Toshoku
Representatives
from Toshoku,
Cargill’s specialty food
business in Japan,
visit the
Egg Fujii factory.
MARYSVILLE,
CALIFORNIA, USA
Cargill Meat Solutions
David Flening,
Margarity Vasquez,
Balwinder Takhar and
Veronica Lopez work
on the packing line.
KIEV, UKRAINE
GOSC EU
“Man at Work,” is the title
supplied by photographer
Sergey Sakhno, a forwarder
with the Grain and Oilseed
Supply Chain in Kiev.
Cargill has a diverse
customer base in the
world’s developing regions
– customers who depend
on everything from
combines to mule power.
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SONGYUAN, CHINA
Cerestar
End of the day.
The sun sets over the
Cerestar China Resources
corn-processing plant.
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AVERY ISLAND,
LOUISIANA, USA
Deicing Technology
End of the day.
The sun sets over the
superstructure of the shaft
that takes salt miners deep
into island’s underground
salt dome. Employees head
for home after “another
day in the salt mine.”
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Closing Image:
KRASNODAR, RUSSIA
GOSC EU
Sergei Plyashkevich,
a Cargill employee in
southern Russia,
made a special effort to
communicate his view of
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Cargill. He climbed a hill
with his son and used the
camera’s timer to take a
photograph. Then he used
a computer to add the
words in the sky.
As stated in the
submission:
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“On Sergei’s white jacket is
written: ‘Cargill – it’s me!’
All our employees have
such jackets and are proud
to wear them. They
understand that this is a
great honor to represent
such a respectable
company! We have
90 employees in our office.”
Thanks to these worldwide locations that submitted photos.
Abidjan, Cotê D’Ivoire
Albany, New York, USA
Albert City, Iowa, USA
Alto Araguaia, Brazil
Amarillo, Texas, USA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, USA
Arlington, Texas, USA
Avery Island, Louisiana, USA
Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Bangkok, Thailand
Barcelona, Spain
Bartow, Florida, USA
Beardstown, Illinois, USA
Beijing, China
Blair, Nebraska, USA
Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Burlington, Washington, USA
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Camrose, Alberta, Canada
Caracas, Venezuela
Carmo do Cajuru, Brazil
Castelmassa, Italy
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Chilecito, Argentina
Clavet, Saskatchewan, Canada
Cobham, England
Dalhart, Texas, USA
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Decatur, Alabama, USA
Denver, Colorado, USA
Dotito Dept, Zimbabwe
East Chicago, Indiana, USA
Eddyville, Iowa, USA
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Escuintla, Guatemala
Evansville, Indiana, USA
Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Florence, Illinois, USA
Footscray, Australia
Freedom, Oklahoma, USA
Fort Morgan, Colorado, USA
Gainesville, Georgia, USA
Geneva, Switzerland
Gibson City, Illinois, USA
Glenwood, Arkansas, USA
Grand Ronde, Oregon, USA
Guaruá, Brazil
Guntersville, Alabama, USA
Gurgaon, India
Hammond, Indiana, USA
Hanford, California, USA
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA
Hereford, England
High River, Alberta, Canada
Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
Iberica, Spain
Izegem, Belgium
Jiangsu, China
Jiaxing, China
Kiev, Ukraine
Koyany, Kyunggi-do, Korea
Krasnodar, Russia
Krefeld, Germany
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Lake City, Minnesota, USA
Langfang, China
León, Spain
Leoti, Kansas, USA
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA
Liverpool, New York, USA
Lockney, Texas, USA
London, Arkansas, USA
London, Ontario, Canada
Madelia, Minnesota, USA
Mairinque, Brazil
Makati, Philippines
Manchester, England
Marshall, Missouri, USA
Martorell, Spain
Marysville, California, USA
Masaya, Nicaragua
McPherson, Kansas, USA
Mechelen, Belgium
Melbourne, Australia
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA
Monticello, Minnesota, USA
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Morris, Manitoba, Canada
Mt. Crawford, Virginia, USA
Mt. Pocono, Pennsylvania, USA
Mt. Rainier, Washington, USA
Mt. Vernon, Indiana, USA
Murfreesboro, Arkansas, USA
Nanjing, China
Navarre, Minnesota, USA
Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA
Newark, California, USA
Newcastle, Australia
Newnan, Georgia, USA
Nicaragua, Masaya, Honduras
North Olmsted, Ohio, USA
Nova Matum, Brazil
Ogden, Utah, USA
Osaka, Japan
Overland Park, Kansas, USA
Paranagua, Brazil
Paulinia, Brazil
Peoria, Illinois, USA
Pittsfield, Illinois, USA
Plainview, Texas, USA
Port Santos, Brazil
Princeton, Indiana, USA
Puerto San Martin, Brazil
Punjab, India
Quequén, Argentina
Ra-jastha-n, India
Reserve, Louisiana, USA
Reus, Spain
Rosário, Brazil
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rush City, Minnesota, USA
Russellville, Arkansas, USA
Saginaw, Texas, USA
Salina, Kansas, USA
Salzgitter, Germany
San Bernadino, California, USA
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Santarém, Amazonia, Brazil
Santiago, Chile
São Carlos, Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil
Sapézal, Brazil
Saraburi, Thailand
Savage, Minnesota, USA
Schuyler, Nebraska, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Seoul, Korea
Shanghai, China
Sidney, Ohio, USA
Sioux City, Iowa, USA
Songyuan, China
Meade, Florida, USA
Spiritwood, North Dakota, USA
Springdale, Arkansas, USA
St-Germain-En-Laye, France
St Louis, Missouri, USA
St. Pauls, North Carolina, USA
Stockton, California, USA
Sungei Lilin, Indonesia
Swinderby, England
Taipei, Taiwan
Tamworth, Australia
Tatúi, Brazil
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Tilbury, England
Timberville, Virginia, USA
Tipton, Indiana, USA
Tokyo, Japan
Uberlândia, Brazil
Umpire, Arkansas, USA
Vernon, California, USA
Vilvoorde, Belgium
Vincennes, Indiana, USA
Voronezh, Russia
Waco, Texas, USA
Wagga Wagga, Australia
Watkins Glen, New York, USA
Wayzata, Minnesota, USA
Wellington, Kansas, USA
West Port, Malaysia
Westwego, Louisiana, USA
Weyers Cave, Virginia, USA
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Williston, Florida, USA
Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada
Wormer, The Netherlands
Wroclaw, Poland
Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, USA
Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
Zibo, Shandong, China
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Y E A R S
Francisco Abrantes
IT Analyst
IT SCC
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Valdir Bertolino
Manager of Origination
GOSC Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Shirley Chamley
Customer Service Rep
Cargill AgHorizons
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Timothy Goshert
World Wide Reliability
Manager, Plant Ops
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nivaldo da Silva
Plant Controller
Cocoa
Ilheus, Brazil
Lynda Alfson
Merchant
GOSC NA
West Fargo, North Dakota
Valdomiro Bilar
Grain Qualifier
GOSC Brazil
Mairinque, Brazil
Dana Cochran
Maintenance
Deicing Technology
Lansing, New York
David Hayden
Supervisor of Operations
Cargill Value Added Meats
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Randy Stark
Starch Operator
Sweeteners North America
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Terrence Bailey
Barge Unloader
GOSC NA
Guntersville, Alabama
David Bird
Engineer
Deicing Technology
Cleveland, Ohio
Joel Fernandez
Boiler Operator
GOSC Brazil
Mairinque, Brazil
Brad Kincaid
Sales Manager
Meat Solutions
Wichita, Kansas
Stephen Storts
Mobile Equipment Mechanic
Phosphate Production
Hookers Prairie, Florida
Wayne Barclay
Roll Turner
NSS
Wilton, Iowa
Gene Boen
Mechanic
Value Added Meats
Springdale, Arkansas
Eugenio Ferrumpau
Class B Operator
Salt
Newark, California
Dorothy Kisaka
Invoicing Clerk
Cargill Kenya Ltd.
Mombasa, Kenya
Michael Swanson
Plant Engineer
Steel Service Center
East Chicago, Indiana
Robert Baylor
Sales Consultant
CAN
Stockton, California
Hammerton Bongoli
Accounts Clerk
Cargill Kenya Ltd.
Mombasa, Kenya
Frank Frazier
Account Manager
Excel Food Distribution
Mt. Holly, New Jersey
Zuhura Mwidani
Clearing & Forwarding Clerk
Cargill Kenya Ltd.
Mombasa, Kenya
Ike Yoon
Vice President
Excel Beef
Seoul, Korea
LuAnn Berthiaume
Line Operator
Sunny Fresh Foods
Monticello, Minnesota
Patrica Camp
Customer Service Rep
Cargill AgHorizons
Shelton, Nebraska
Othon Gonzalez
Solar Plant Foreperson
Salt
Newark, California
Hamisi Mwinyibabu
Cashier
Cargill Kenya Ltd.
Mombasa, Kenya
Roberto Zorzetto
IT System Maanger
Cargill Agricola SA
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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25 YEARS
B A C K
P A G E
Editor’s note:
As part of this special recognition issue, we asked employees
celebrating 25 years with the company to respond to this
question:In your 25 years with Cargill, what is the single biggest
change that you have seen? Here are some of the answers.
Brian Bartlett
Production Supervisor
Deicing Technology
Lansing, New York
Maman*
Production Operator
CAN
Gunung Putri, Indonesia
Nurdin
Production Operator
CAN
Gunung Putri, Indonesia
Compared to the past, Cargill’s commitment to safety, housekeeping and
employee compensation has improved a
lot. We are not only challenged to maintain a high standard of safety, but also
well equipped with more sophisticated
equipment.
The management has become
more open and communicative. In the past, people like
me never got informed about
how the business is going.
For years we were a part of a very large and
private entity – which we as employees, let
alone the general public, knew very little
about. Perhaps a combination of the ESOP
program and a gradual change in the mindset
of the directors changed many things for the
better. I believe employees today have much
more information concerning our operations,
our business units and the corporation as a
whole, which makes us feel that we are part of
the company. Beyond this, it’s rewarding to
see that Cargill has also become much more
open publicly with television commercials and
a strong movement towards visibility in our
communities, including various sponsorships
and the Cargill Cares volunteer programs.
Jimmy Lewis
Accounting Manager
Cargill Meat Solutions
Hayward, California
Mary Leinthall
Training & Development Mngr.
Cargill Salt
St. Clair, Michigan
I have served Salt customers, both
internal and external, for the last 25 years.
The job title Customer Service
Representative used to mean: answer the
phone, take the order and make sure it is
entered. Now we hire, continually train and
expect people to be Customer Solution
Specialists. We look for people who easily initiate communication, are flexible to change,
ask probing questions, take responsibility for
decisions, collaborate and volunteer to work
with project teams. What an exciting change!
When I began working for
Cargill, we did all our
accounting with green
ledger paper, a pencil with
a big eraser and a calculator. Now, as I sit here typing
on my new Dell computer
with a flat screen monitor,
I marvel at how much we
have progressed in the last
25 years.
Daniel Wabuk
Logistics Supervisor
Cargill Kenya Ltd.
Mombasa, Kenya
The single biggest change is higher
value customer solutions that have
enabled Cargill Kenya to become a
leader in the warehousing business
in Mombasa, Kenya, and has kept
the company growing stronger
every year.
* Editor’s note: It is common for Indonesians to have a single name.
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