FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Following are responses to a few questions frequently asked about Bunge North America, its parent company, its businesses and its safety and environmental commitment.
Does Bunge North America deal only in raw agricultural commodities?
No. While Bunge Grain is a major exporter and domestic supplier of grains and oilseeds, Bunge North America also processes oilseeds through Bunge Oilseed Processing and corn and wheat through Bunge Milling into meals, bulk edible oils and shortenings for the food and feed processing, foodservice, retail and bakery industries. Through Bunge Oils, we supply the food processing, foodservice and retail and wholesale bakery industries with packaged and bulk shortenings and edible oils. Bunge North America products and services link North America’s growers with food processors and consumers worldwide.
Is Bunge North America a publicly traded company?
No. Bunge North America is the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited which historically had been a privately held company since it was first established in the Netherlands in 1818. However, on August 2, 2001, Bunge Limited issued 17.6 million shares in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BG), becoming for the first time in its history a publicly traded company. Bunge North America, until May 2001 known as Bunge Corporation, was originally formed in New York in 1923. We are well-known and respected among growers, food and feed processors, foodservice operators and the retail and wholesale baking industry for providing quality, value-added services and food and feed ingredients.
What business is Bunge Limited engaged in?
Bunge Limited is involved in three key sectors: fertilizer, agribusiness and food products.
With 22,000 employees in more than thirty countries, Bunge Limited is the world’s largest oilseed processor and seller of bottled oil; the leading miller of wheat in South America and corn in North America; the leading producer of fertilizer in South America. For more information about Bunge Limited, go to www.bunge.com.
Who are Bunge North America’s customers?
Bunge North America’s customers include the growers from whom we buy commodity agricultural products and to whom we provide contract storage and transportation services; food and feed processors in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and abroad; foodservice, retail and wholesale bakery companies; and biofuels manufacturers. Our products, which are found in ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, snack foods, confections, cakes, cookies, muffins, breads and animal feed, touch consumers’ lives every day.
How much experience does Bunge North America have in international agribusiness?
Bunge North America has been serving growers, food and feed processors, foodservice operators and bakery companies for more than 80 years. We’re backed by nearly 200 years of agribusiness experience through Bunge Limited.
Where are Bunge North America’s facilities located?
Bunge North America has locations in seventeen states, five Canadian provinces and in Mexico City. Our corporate headquarters are located in St. Louis, Missouri. For more detailed information, click on “Locations.”
What distinguishes Bunge North America as an employer?
Bunge North America is an equal opportunity employer offering a broad range of career opportunities. Our people are engaged in a wide variety of careers related to agriculture and food production including commodities trading, manufacturing, marketing, sales, customer service, research, transportation, engineering, information technology, finance, and accounting.
We provide our employees with a stable, challenging and ethical workplace, and we pride ourselves on maintaining the highest professional standards in our industry. We value our employees’ contributions to the Company, and we are genuinely concerned with the career and employment needs of each individual. We recognize employee loyalty, we value it and we reward it.
What kind of research does Bunge North America conduct?
Beyond Bunge North America’s researchers and technical team that support our customers today, we can tap into an international team of scientists at Bunge’s Oil Center of Excellence in Bradley, Illinois. Their expertise is enabling Bunge to develop products that provide significant value to customers today and in the future.
What is Bunge North America’s position on safety and environmental responsibility?
At Bunge North America we strive to be a good neighbor, encouraging our employees to give back to the communities in which they work. Safety is a top priority for us, so we are committed to a safety program designed to protect our employees as well as our communities. That means meeting or exceeding all safety requirements, laws and regulations affecting our facilities and operations.
We also are committed to conducting business in a way that is environmentally responsible. We comply with Federal, state, provincial and local environmental laws and regulations, and we develop and implement responsible air, water and waste management controls. We promote knowledge and responsibility for environmental matters among our employees, and we encourage every employee to conscientiously observe the Company’s environmental policy and procedures.
How does Bunge North America contribute to local communities?
The Bunge North America Foundation supports the communities we serve through direct contributions and through an employee matching grants program. The foundation matches, dollar for dollar, eligible employees’ and retirees’ charitable contributions to educational and cultural institutions. As a result, we match hundreds of thousands of dollars in employee gifts annually. Each year Bunge North America also awards scholarships to exemplary children of our employees.
In addition, Bunge North America supports the safety education of hundreds of children in North America through Progressive Agriculture’s Farm Safety Days. As a sponsor of day camps in the U.S. and Canada, Bunge helps the program reach more than 53,000 children and 18,000 adults through approximately 350 camps annually. For more information about Progressive Agriculture’s camps, please go to www.progressiveag.org.