date:Aug 10, 2012
n 16,000 people and 250 facilities in 38 countries and serving customers in 100 countries.
Other significant additions during the year were Cargills purchase of Central American poultry and meat processor Corporacin Pipasa, and German cocoa and chocolate company KVB. The company formed three joint ventures in beef in Australia; in sugar, ethanol and bioelectricity in Brazil; and in biopolymers in Thailand and the US. It opened innovation centers in Brazils So Paulo state and in Wichita, Kan. A