Cargill Australia Fact sheet - AWB Limited
Cargill Australia Fact sheet - AWB Limited
Cargill Australia Fact sheet - AWB Limited
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<strong>Cargill</strong><br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, the<br />
privately held company employs 142,000 people in 66 countries. <strong>Cargill</strong> helps customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and<br />
is committed to applying its global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges<br />
<strong>Australia</strong><br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> established a presence in <strong>Australia</strong> in 1967 to service the country’s large grain exports and has<br />
since extended its involvement into several other agricultural industries including, grain and oilseed<br />
origination, oilseed processing, grain and cotton trading, grain storage and handling as well as joint<br />
ventures in beef processing and flour milling.<br />
Currently <strong>Cargill</strong> sells protein meals, vegetable oils and cotton lint as well as exporting food ingredients<br />
via the <strong>Cargill</strong> Japan office. In addition to physical products, <strong>Cargill</strong> businesses offer their customers<br />
innovative customer solutions, and <strong>Cargill</strong> Risk Management offers a range of risk management<br />
products for producers and consumers of commodities.<br />
<strong>AWB</strong> Origination<br />
The <strong>AWB</strong> origination business was formed<br />
in 2011 when <strong>Cargill</strong> acquired the trading<br />
and origination arm of <strong>AWB</strong>, the existing<br />
origination team has been integrated to<br />
form an expanded team of farm marketers<br />
and grain origination specialists.<br />
<strong>AWB</strong> originates grain, oilseeds and pulses<br />
and has an extensive field origination<br />
network with 40 grain marketers located<br />
in 26 offices across the <strong>Australia</strong>n grain<br />
belt. <strong>AWB</strong>’s farm marketers and grain<br />
origination specialists partner with<br />
farmers to provide them with access to an<br />
extensive range of marketing tools to help<br />
them prosper.<br />
GrainFlow<br />
GrainFlow operates a network of 22<br />
storage centres in Queensland, New<br />
South Wales, Victoria and South <strong>Australia</strong>.<br />
The focus of these operations has been<br />
the efficient and cost effective receival,<br />
storage and outturn of large quantities of<br />
bulk grains and oilseeds.<br />
GrainFlow has sought to introduce a<br />
strong customer focus to the grain<br />
storage and handling industry. Farmer and<br />
grain marketer needs are paramount in<br />
GrainFlow’s business philosophy.<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> continues to operate three Storage<br />
and handling joint ventures at Red Bend,<br />
Henty and Temora in New South Wales.<br />
Grain & Oilseed Supply Chain<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> is a major marketer of <strong>Australia</strong>n grain and oilseeds supplying our crush plants<br />
and flour milling JV requirements as well as domestic and international customers in<br />
the food processing, animal feed and meat industries. We provide a range of<br />
differentiated price risk management and logistics solutions to help our customers<br />
succeed.<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong>’s extensive network of international trading offices provides access to world<br />
markets for <strong>Australia</strong>n grain and oilseeds. <strong>Cargill</strong> processes close to 680,000 tonnes of<br />
canola, cottonseed, sunflower seed and soybeans annually at its three crush plants in<br />
<strong>Australia</strong> to produce protein meal for animal feed and vegetable oil for foods such as<br />
margarine, salad dressings and frying.
Refined Oils<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> built its first <strong>Australia</strong>n vegetable oil<br />
refinery in Newcastle, NSW, in June 2007. The<br />
refinery refines, bleaches and deodorises<br />
(RBD) canola oil, sunflower oil<br />
(polyunsaturated and high oleic), soybean oil<br />
and cottonseed oil as well as imported palm<br />
olein and palm stearine. <strong>Cargill</strong> distributes its<br />
high quality oils and shortenings throughout<br />
QLD, New South Wales, Victoria and South<br />
<strong>Australia</strong> to some of <strong>Australia</strong>'s premier food<br />
companies.<br />
In 2010 a packaging facility was<br />
commissioned at Newcastle allowing <strong>Cargill</strong><br />
to produce packaged fats and oils for a range<br />
of customers.<br />
The <strong>Cargill</strong> refinery in Newcastle is fully integrated<br />
with the existing multi-seed crush facility.<br />
The integrated crush and refinery is<br />
conveniently located on the port and therefore<br />
meets AQIS requirements for processing imported<br />
oilseeds<br />
Food Ingredients<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> Food Ingredients & Solutions was established<br />
in <strong>Australia</strong> 2007 to market a range<br />
of sweeteners, starches, texturisers and<br />
health and nutritional products. With a local<br />
customer service desk, distributors and warehouses<br />
throughout <strong>Australia</strong> and New Zealand<br />
they are able to bring customers the full range<br />
of <strong>Cargill</strong> ingredients from all regions of the<br />
globe.<br />
Risk Management<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> Risk Management (CRM) is a provider<br />
of innovative price risk management solutions<br />
for producers and consumers of commodities.<br />
The CRM team delivers ‘over the counter’<br />
products to protect customer price exposures<br />
across a range of agricultural, soft and energy<br />
markets. <strong>Cargill</strong> Risk Management’s ‘tool box’<br />
of products encompasses a range of options<br />
which are tailor-made to meet the needs of<br />
our clients<br />
Cotton<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> established a direct cotton marketing<br />
business in <strong>Australia</strong> in 2000 when Ralli<br />
Brothers and Coney, a <strong>Cargill</strong> subsidiary,<br />
opened an office in Brisbane. Since that time<br />
the business has established a strong<br />
presence in the <strong>Australia</strong> market by servicing<br />
cotton growers with marketing tools through<br />
its network of regional representatives in<br />
Queensland and New South Wales.<br />
International cotton processors are serviced<br />
with <strong>Australia</strong>n Cotton through the company’s<br />
extensive network of marketing offices around<br />
the world. In 2002 the business began trading<br />
globally as <strong>Cargill</strong> Cotton<br />
Toshoku/<strong>Cargill</strong> Japan<br />
Toshoku Ltd merged with <strong>Cargill</strong> Japan Ltd<br />
on June 1, 2007 and in <strong>Australia</strong>, the<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> Toshoku business unit is responsible<br />
for procuring food and feed items primarily for<br />
the Japanese and South East Asian markets. It<br />
is involved in sourcing grain, beef, dairy, food<br />
ingredients, oils and processed foods.<br />
Teys <strong>Australia</strong><br />
Formed in September 2011, Teys <strong>Australia</strong> is a<br />
50 – 50 joint venture merging the Teys Bros<br />
and <strong>Cargill</strong> Beef <strong>Australia</strong> beef processing and<br />
cattle feeding businesses.<br />
Teys <strong>Australia</strong> operates a group of assets which<br />
are strategically located across the eastern<br />
seaboard of <strong>Australia</strong>. The joint venture<br />
combines all the beef processing and cattle<br />
feeding operations previously run by Teys and<br />
<strong>Cargill</strong> Beef <strong>Australia</strong>, as well as Teys’ tannery<br />
and value added facilities, and Teys’ share of its<br />
wholesale divisions.<br />
Our Joint ventures<br />
Allied Mills<br />
In 2002 <strong>Cargill</strong> <strong>Australia</strong> <strong>Limited</strong> established a<br />
joint venture with GrainCorp Operations <strong>Limited</strong><br />
to purchase Goodman Fielder’s flour milling<br />
business, which now trades as Allied Mills<br />
<strong>Australia</strong> Pty Ltd. Allied Mills has a national<br />
network of flour mills operating in Queensland,<br />
New South Wales, Victoria, South <strong>Australia</strong> and<br />
Western <strong>Australia</strong> and mills close to 700,000<br />
tonnes of wheat annually.<br />
Allied Mill’s services both domestic and export<br />
markets with bread and speciality flours, bread<br />
mixes and an extensive range of cake, scone<br />
and other premixes.<br />
Corporate Responsibility<br />
Corporate responsibility extends not only to our own operations but to our wider communities and<br />
is based on four commitments:<br />
We will conduct our business with high levels of integrity, accountability and responsibility.<br />
We will develop ways of reducing our environmental impact and help conserve natural resources.<br />
We will treat people with dignity and respect.<br />
We will invest in and engage with communities where we live and work.<br />
We recognize our continued success depends on the growth and health of our communities and<br />
partners, as well as the vitality and conservation of our natural resources. We are working with a<br />
diverse group of global, national and local organizations to support responsible economic<br />
development, help protect the environment and improve communities<br />
In <strong>Australia</strong> <strong>Cargill</strong> supports a range of organizations, in the communities we operate in including,<br />
Westpac Rescue Helicopter, Beyond Blue, Foodbank Victoria and the Royal Flying Doctors Service