About Cargill in the UK
Cargill has been active in the United Kingdom since 1955 and now employs over 3,000 people in 19 locations, in Cobham, Dalton, Hereford (two locations), Hull, Lichfield, Liverpool (four locations), London (two locations), Manchester, Newent, Shobdon, Witham St Hughs, Wolverhampton, Worksop and York. Cargill also has an agriculture joint venture with Allied Grain (part of ABF), under the name Frontier Agriculture.
Cargill has activities in the following areas in the United Kingdom:
- alcohol
- animal feed ingredients
- asset management
- cotton trading
- emissions, electricity and gas trading
- financial services and risk management
- food and feed ingredients sales
- grain and oilseed trading
- industrial chocolate
- ocean transportation and logistics
- 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
Recent Cargill Investments in the United Kingdom
| 2011 | Cargill acquired Royal Nedalco, a producer of premium potable and industrial alcohol. |
| 2008 | Cargill announced the expansion of its poultry operations in the UK with the acquisition of Freeman’s of Newent Ltd. (Freeman’s), a primary chicken processing business in Gloucestershire. |
| 2007 | Cargill started processing wheat at its new starches and sweeteners facility in Manchester. |
| 2005 | Cargill announced its intention to invest in a state-of-the-art wheat-based sweeteners plant at its Manchester facility. |
| 2005 | Cargill began trading emissions, electricity and gas from its new office in King Street, London. |
| 2004 | Banks Cargill Agriculture and Allied Grain (part of ABF) combined their existing UK operations trading under the name of Frontier Agriculture. |
| 2004 | Cargill acquired The Nestlé Group's primary cocoa processing facility in York. |
| 2003 | Cargill acquired OCG Cacao's industrial chocolate business, including its plant in Worksop. |
| 2002 | Cargill acquired Cerestar - a leading provider of starch and starch derivatives - the largest acquisition in Cargill's history, including Cerestar's sweeteners plant in Manchester. |