Though large, Cargill remains relatively elusive.(Company overview)

Food Institute Report, The, December, 2008

With operations in 67 countries, 160,000 employees and $120 billion in annual revenues, Cargill, Inc. is bigger than the economies of more than two-thirds of the world's countries, including Kuwait, Peru and Vietnam, according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune (Dec. 4). Its sales exceed those of DISNEY, KRAFT FOODS and PEPSICO.

combined, and is nearly twice the size of ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND, its closest competitor. In the past five years, the company's sales doubled and its profits have tripled. In the fiscal year ended May ...