Cargill has been active in the United Kingdom since 1955 and now employs over 1,200 people in 20 locations, in Bathgate, Dalton, Farnborough, Hereford, Hull, Lichfield, Liverpool (five locations), London (two locations), Manchester, Weybridge, Witham St Hughs, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Worksop and York. Cargill also has two joint ventures, an agriculture joint venture with Allied Grain (part of ABF), under the name Frontier Agriculture and a poultry joint venture with Faccenda Foods, under the name Avara.
Cargill has activities in the following areas in the United Kingdom:
- alcohol production
- animal feed ingredients
- aqua nutrition
- asset management
- cotton trading
- energy volatility management solutions
- financial services and risk management
- food and feed ingredients sales
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- grain and oilseed trading
- industrial chocolate
- oilseed crushing, refining and hardening
- poultry processing
- primary cocoa processing
- production and sales of glucose syrups, starches and starch derivatives
- specialty food ingredients including texturisers
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Agriculture
As one of the world’s leading merchants of grains and oilseeds, Cargill connects producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe. We operate on an integrated global basis to source, store, trade, process and distribute grains and oilseeds including wheat, corn, oilseeds, barley and sorghum, as well as vegetable oils and meals.
Animal Nutrition
We are one of the leading suppliers of animal nutrition products worldwide. With our global expertise in supply chain and risk management, we are able to offer distinctive value to meet your needs through high quality feed production and efficient distribution. Our market-leading brands and products support the care, growth, and efficiency of various species.
Bio-industrial
Across industries, manufacturers are looking for smarter ways to formulate their products in order to improve performance and/or gain total cost efficiencies. For decades, we’ve been reliably selecting, modifying and reacting various nature-based chemistries to create specific, innovative solutions for our industrial customers.
Food & Beverage
We’re here to jointly connect ideas to opportunities. Whatever challenges you have at hand, our diverse portfolio of core and specialty ingredients, ingredient and finished food systems will help you achieve your next food or beverage success.
Beauty & Personal Care
Cargill Beauty offers a diverse portfolio of nature-derived ingredients, with a responsible supply chain, fully integrated processes and application expertise to help you thrive.
Pharmaceutical
Changing demands calls for superior products with improved functionality, taste and shelf-life. We understand that besides high quality products, trust, dedication and experience are also essential to be a reliable supplier to the pharmaceutical industry.
Poultry
Through a newly established joint venture in the UK, Cargill is an equal shareholder in a leading UK food company focused on chicken, turkey and duck with operations in Hereford. Cargill’s UK fresh chicken business has joined with the fresh chicken, turkey and duck business from Faccenda to form this standalone joint venture.
Risk Management
At Cargill Risk Management, we know that where there is risk, there is opportunity – a chance to be proactive instead of reactive. Our risk management experts partner with customers to build commodity price risk management strategies using tailored solutions that are unique to their goals, industries and market biases.