Cargill Australia Fact sheet - AWB Limited

Cargill
Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, the
privately held company employs 142,000 people in 66 countries. Cargill helps customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and
is committed to applying its global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges
Australia
Cargill established a presence in Australia in 1967 to service the country’s large grain exports and has
since extended its involvement into several other agricultural industries including, grain and oilseed
origination, oilseed processing, grain and cotton trading, grain storage and handling as well as joint
ventures in beef processing and flour milling.
Currently Cargill sells protein meals, vegetable oils and cotton lint as well as exporting food ingredients
via the Cargill Japan office. In addition to physical products, Cargill businesses offer their customers
innovative customer solutions, and Cargill Risk Management offers a range of risk management
products for producers and consumers of commodities.
AWB Origination
The AWB origination business was formed
in 2011 when Cargill acquired the trading
and origination arm of AWB, the existing
origination team has been integrated to
form an expanded team of farm marketers
and grain origination specialists.
AWB originates grain, oilseeds and pulses
and has an extensive field origination
network with 40 grain marketers located
in 26 offices across the Australian grain
belt. AWB’s farm marketers and grain
origination specialists partner with
farmers to provide them with access to an
extensive range of marketing tools to help
them prosper.
GrainFlow
GrainFlow operates a network of 22
storage centres in Queensland, New
South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
The focus of these operations has been
the efficient and cost effective receival,
storage and outturn of large quantities of
bulk grains and oilseeds.
GrainFlow has sought to introduce a
strong customer focus to the grain
storage and handling industry. Farmer and
grain marketer needs are paramount in
GrainFlow’s business philosophy.
Cargill continues to operate three Storage
and handling joint ventures at Red Bend,
Henty and Temora in New South Wales.
Grain & Oilseed Supply Chain
Cargill is a major marketer of Australian grain and oilseeds supplying our crush plants
and flour milling JV requirements as well as domestic and international customers in
the food processing, animal feed and meat industries. We provide a range of
differentiated price risk management and logistics solutions to help our customers
succeed.
Cargill’s extensive network of international trading offices provides access to world
markets for Australian grain and oilseeds. Cargill processes close to 680,000 tonnes of
canola, cottonseed, sunflower seed and soybeans annually at its three crush plants in
Australia to produce protein meal for animal feed and vegetable oil for foods such as
margarine, salad dressings and frying.

Refined Oils
Cargill built its first Australian vegetable oil
refinery in Newcastle, NSW, in June 2007. The
refinery refines, bleaches and deodorises
(RBD) canola oil, sunflower oil
(polyunsaturated and high oleic), soybean oil
and cottonseed oil as well as imported palm
olein and palm stearine. Cargill distributes its
high quality oils and shortenings throughout
QLD, New South Wales, Victoria and South
Australia to some of Australia's premier food
companies.
In 2010 a packaging facility was
commissioned at Newcastle allowing Cargill
to produce packaged fats and oils for a range
of customers.
The Cargill refinery in Newcastle is fully integrated
with the existing multi-seed crush facility.
The integrated crush and refinery is
conveniently located on the port and therefore
meets AQIS requirements for processing imported
oilseeds
Food Ingredients
Cargill Food Ingredients & Solutions was established
in Australia 2007 to market a range
of sweeteners, starches, texturisers and
health and nutritional products. With a local
customer service desk, distributors and warehouses
throughout Australia and New Zealand
they are able to bring customers the full range
of Cargill ingredients from all regions of the
globe.
Risk Management
Cargill Risk Management (CRM) is a provider
of innovative price risk management solutions
for producers and consumers of commodities.
The CRM team delivers ‘over the counter’
products to protect customer price exposures
across a range of agricultural, soft and energy
markets. Cargill Risk Management’s ‘tool box’
of products encompasses a range of options
which are tailor-made to meet the needs of
our clients
Cotton
Cargill established a direct cotton marketing
business in Australia in 2000 when Ralli
Brothers and Coney, a Cargill subsidiary,
opened an office in Brisbane. Since that time
the business has established a strong
presence in the Australia market by servicing
cotton growers with marketing tools through
its network of regional representatives in
Queensland and New South Wales.
International cotton processors are serviced
with Australian Cotton through the company’s
extensive network of marketing offices around
the world. In 2002 the business began trading
globally as Cargill Cotton
Toshoku/Cargill Japan
Toshoku Ltd merged with Cargill Japan Ltd
on June 1, 2007 and in Australia, the
Cargill Toshoku business unit is responsible
for procuring food and feed items primarily for
the Japanese and South East Asian markets. It
is involved in sourcing grain, beef, dairy, food
ingredients, oils and processed foods.
Teys Australia
Formed in September 2011, Teys Australia is a
50 – 50 joint venture merging the Teys Bros
and Cargill Beef Australia beef processing and
cattle feeding businesses.
Teys Australia operates a group of assets which
are strategically located across the eastern
seaboard of Australia. The joint venture
combines all the beef processing and cattle
feeding operations previously run by Teys and
Cargill Beef Australia, as well as Teys’ tannery
and value added facilities, and Teys’ share of its
wholesale divisions.
Our Joint ventures
Allied Mills
In 2002 Cargill Australia Limited established a
joint venture with GrainCorp Operations Limited
to purchase Goodman Fielder’s flour milling
business, which now trades as Allied Mills
Australia Pty Ltd. Allied Mills has a national
network of flour mills operating in Queensland,
New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and
Western Australia and mills close to 700,000
tonnes of wheat annually.
Allied Mill’s services both domestic and export
markets with bread and speciality flours, bread
mixes and an extensive range of cake, scone
and other premixes.
Corporate Responsibility
Corporate responsibility extends not only to our own operations but to our wider communities and
is based on four commitments:
We will conduct our business with high levels of integrity, accountability and responsibility.
We will develop ways of reducing our environmental impact and help conserve natural resources.
We will treat people with dignity and respect.
We will invest in and engage with communities where we live and work.
We recognize our continued success depends on the growth and health of our communities and
partners, as well as the vitality and conservation of our natural resources. We are working with a
diverse group of global, national and local organizations to support responsible economic
development, help protect the environment and improve communities
In Australia Cargill supports a range of organizations, in the communities we operate in including,
Westpac Rescue Helicopter, Beyond Blue, Foodbank Victoria and the Royal Flying Doctors Service