Consumer emphasis on high-protein and low-carbohydrate (low-carb) diets resulted in many packaged food firms reducing their revenue and earnings growth targets in 2004. Although protein producers such as Tyson Foods Inc. Tyson, Cargill Inc.'s Cargill Excel and Smithfield Foods Inc. Smithfield benefited, the packaged food companies have realized lower volume...
How is globalization transforming the finance leader's role? John Cummings, associate editor with Business Finance, explored that question with Robert L. Lumpkins, vice chairman and CFO of Minneapolis-based food and agriculture giant Cargill Inc. This paper depicts that the more important issue about leadership is not about what one personally...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fertilizer producer and oilseed processor Bunge Ltd said on Monday it would buy Corn Products International Inc CPO for $4.4 billion to gain a leading position in corn-based starches and sweeteners. The deal comes at a time of record grain...
