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Item 1.BUSINESS (Continued)The Company produces a wide range of edible soy protein products including soy flour, soy grits, soy proteinconcentrates and soy isolates that are used in processed meats, baked foods, nutritional products, snacks, anddairy and meat analogs. The Company further processes these ingredients into dry and frozen meat analogs thatit markets to foodservice operators, retail and private label brand marketers, and direct-to-retail stores.The Company produces natural source vitamin E, tocopherol antioxidants and phytosterols from co-products ofoilseeds which are marketed to the dietary supplement and food industry. The Company produces soyisoflavones, a dietary supplement, from a co-product of edible soy processing. The Company processes anddistributes edible beans for use as a food ingredient. The Company produces and distributes formula feeds andanimal health and nutrition products to the livestock, dairy, poultry, and pet food industries.Gruma S.A. de C.V. and affiliates (Gruma), of which the Company has a 27% interest, is the world’s largestproducer and marketer of corn flour and tortillas with operations in the United States, Mexico, Central America,South America, and Europe. Additionally, the Company has a 20% interest in a joint venture which consists ofthe combined United States corn flour operations of the Company and Gruma. The Company also has a 40%share, through a joint venture with Gruma, in nine Mexican-based wheat flour mills.International Malting Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, operates malting barley plants inthe United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.Hickory Point Bank and Trust Company, fsb, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, furnishes publicbanking and trust services, as well as cash management, transfer agency, and securities safekeeping services, forthe Company.ADM Investor Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, is a registered futures commissionmerchant and a clearing member of all principal commodities exchanges. ADM Investor Services International,Ltd. specializes in futures, options and foreign exchange in the European marketplace. ADM Derivatives, Inc.offers foreign exchange services to institutional and retail clients.Agrinational Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, provides insurance coverage forcertain property, casualty, marine, and other miscellaneous risks of the Company and participates in certainthird-party reinsurance arrangements.The Company has a 50% interest in Telles, LLC (Telles), a joint venture formed between the Company andMetabolix to market and sell PHA produced in a facility being constructed by the Company which is expected tobe completed during fiscal 2009. This facility will produce PHA to be sold to Telles for marketing, sale, anddistribution to the end consumer.The Company is a limited partner in various private equity funds which invest primarily in emerging markets.Methods of DistributionSince the Company’s customers are principally other manufacturers and processors, the Company’s products aredistributed mainly in bulk from processing plants or storage facilities directly to the customers’ facilities. TheCompany has developed a comprehensive transportation system utilizing trucks, railcars, river barges, and oceangoingvessels to efficiently move both commodities and processed products virtually anywhere in the world. TheCompany owns or leases large numbers of the trucks, trailers, railroad tank and hopper cars, river barges, andtowboats used in this transportation system.6
Item 1.BUSINESS (Continued)Status of New ProductsThe Company continues to expand its business in line with the Company’s strategy to be a world leader inBioEnergy whilst maintaining its premier position in the agricultural processing value chain through thedevelopment of new products.The Company’s researchers have developed a number of custom low trans fats and oils for bakery and quickservicerestaurants that utilize the Company’s Novalipid portfolio of low trans fats and oils. These products meetthe growing needs of food service customers driven by legislated municipal bans on the use of fats and oils thatcontain trans fats.Our Aspire business model continues to be developed to leverage the Company’s finished food productdevelopment capabilities. Under this program, ADM works with customers to supply finished food products suchas nutrition bars, beverages and other items in a final packaged form ready for retail distribution. The developmentof the prototypes is done by research and development staff and the manufacturing is accomplished through anetwork of co-manufacturers. This program helps customers introduce more new trait-enhanced products morequickly than they would otherwise be able to accomplish.The Company’s cooked, dried edible bean products are finding a number of new applications due to the increasedinterest among our customers in improving nutrition, especially in the area of foods targeted for children. Theseedible bean powders are being used in a wide range of convenient foods.The Company’s alliance with Metabolix is proceeding on schedule. Semi-works production of PHA, abiodegradable plastic, is underway for market development, and construction of the Company’s 50,000 ton peryear commercial manufacturing facility is on schedule for startup in December 2008.The Company is proceeding with construction of a commercial propylene glycol (PG) facility in Decatur,Illinois. Value-added derivatives of PG are being pursued by research and development staff.Source and Availability of Raw MaterialsSubstantially all of the Company’s raw materials are agricultural commodities. In any single year, theavailability and price of these commodities are subject to unpredictable factors such as weather, plantings,government (domestic and foreign) farm programs and policies, changes in global demand created by populationgrowth and changes in standards of living, and global production of similar and competitive crops. Thesubstantial majority of the Company’s raw materials are procured from thousands of grain elevators andwholesale merchants, principally in North America, South America, and Europe, pursuant to short-termagreements (less than one year) or on a spot basis. The Company does not grow crops and a relatively smallproportion of the Company’s raw materials are purchased directly from growers. The Company is not dependentupon any particular grower, elevator, or merchant or group of growers, elevators, or merchants as a source for itsraw materials.Patents, Trademarks, and LicensesThe Company owns several valuable patents, trademarks, and licenses but does not consider any segment of itsbusiness dependent upon any single or group of patents, trademarks or licenses.7
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