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Commitment to delivering the highest quality products and services to customers while maintaining rigorous safety and operational standards across all facilities.

Quality

Leveraging science, technology, and deep agricultural expertise to develop new ingredients, processes, and solutions that address evolving customer and consumer needs.

Innovation

Leading regenerative agriculture initiatives, reducing environmental impact, and building resilient agricultural systems that benefit farmers, communities, and the planet.

Sustainability

Operating with honesty, transparency, and ethical business practices across all operations and maintaining trust with farmers, customers, employees, and communities.

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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is one of the world's largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, founded in 1902. Headquartered in Chicago, ADM operates over 800 facilities worldwide, processing oilseeds, corn, wheat, and other agricultural products into ingredients for food, beverage, animal nutrition, and industrial applications, serving as a critical link in the global food supply chain.

Juan R. Luciano

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Monish Patolawala

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Christopher M. Cuddy

Senior Vice President, President of Carbohydrate Solutions and President of North America

Jennifer Weber

Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief Diversity Officer

Kristy Folkwein

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Ismael Roig

President of EMEA and President of Animal Nutrition

Soybean meal and oil, vegetable and salad oils, protein meals, and ingredients derived from oilseed processing for food, feed, energy, and industrial applications. ADM is one of the world's largest processors of soybeans and other oilseeds.

Vegetable Oils and Protein Meals

Comprehensive portfolio of sweeteners including high-fructose corn syrup, corn and wheat starches, syrups, glucose, dextrose, and wheat flour for food and beverage manufacturers worldwide.

Sweeteners and Starches

Ethyl alcohol and ethanol produced from corn and other agricultural feedstocks for use in transportation fuels, industrial applications, and beverage alcohol, supporting the renewable energy transition.

Ethanol and Renewable Fuels

Formula feeds, animal health and nutrition products, corn gluten feed and meal, distillers' grains, and other feed ingredients serving livestock, poultry, aquaculture, and pet food manufacturers globally.

Animal Nutrition Products

Proteins, natural flavors, flavor systems, natural colors, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and botanical extracts for food and beverage applications.

Specialty Food Ingredients

Global agricultural commodity trading services including origination, merchandising, storage, and transportation of oilseeds, corn, wheat, and other grains, connecting farmers to markets worldwide.

Grain Origination and Trading

Citric acids and other fermentation-based ingredients used in food preservation, flavor enhancement, and industrial applications, produced through biotechnology processes.

Citric Acid and Fermentation Products

ADM appointed Monish Patolawala as Executive Vice President and CFO effective August 1, 2024, succeeding Interim CFO Ismael Roig. Patolawala brings over 25 years of finance and technology experience, most recently serving as President and CFO of 3M Company. He will oversee Global Finance and Accounting, Global Business Services, Global Technology, and Enterprise Strategy.

Archer Daniels Midland Appoints Monish Patolawala as CFO

ADM announced achieving its 2025 regenerative agriculture goal ahead of schedule by engaging over 28,000 growers across more than 5 million acres in 2024. The company's initiatives resulted in reducing its Scope 3 footprint by more than 1 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, demonstrating leadership in sustainable agriculture practices.

ADM Achieves 2025 Regenerative Agriculture Goal a Year Early

ADM reported 2024 revenue of $85.53 billion, down 8.95% from 2023, and net income of $1.80 billion, down 48.32% from the prior year. Earnings per share were $3.66 versus $6.44 in 2023. The company announced targeted actions to deliver $500-750 million in cost savings over the next several years and maintained its dividend with a 2% increase.

ADM Reports Full Year 2024 Financial Results

Archer Daniels Midland was recognized on Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces in Manufacturing 2025 list, highlighting the company's commitment to employee satisfaction, workplace culture, and creating opportunities for its 44,000+ global workforce.

ADM Named to Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces in Manufacturing 2025

ADM announced it will put its 11 U.S. feed mills into a joint venture in which it holds a minority stake, as the company seeks to reduce costs and simplify its portfolio. This strategic move is part of ADM's efforts to optimize operations and focus on core competencies.

ADM Announces Joint Venture for U.S. Feed Mills

ADM and Alltech, a global leader in agriculture, announced the signing of a definitive agreement for a strategic partnership. The collaboration aims to enhance animal nutrition offerings and expand market reach for both companies' complementary product portfolios.

ADM and Alltech Announce Strategic Partnership

ADM announced that plant construction for a CO2 conversion facility is set to begin in 2025 with completion expected by end of 2026. This facility will support the company's sustainability initiatives and contribute to carbon reduction efforts in the agricultural processing industry.

ADM Plans CO2 Conversion Facility Construction

John W. Daniels broke ground on the Daniels Linseed Co.'s first mill in Minneapolis, Minnesota, establishing what would become one of the world's largest agricultural processors. The company turned an impressive profit of $30,212.80 in its first half year.

Company Founded in Minneapolis

George A. Archer joined John Daniels' linseed crushing operation, bringing experience from his family's flaxseed crushing business dating back to the 1830s and strengthening the company's technical and business capabilities.

George Archer Joins the Company

The firm's name officially became the Archer-Daniels Linseed Company, formalizing the partnership between the two founders and establishing the corporate identity that would evolve into ADM.

Formation of Archer-Daniels Linseed Company

Archer-Daniels Linseed Company acquired Midland Linseed Products Company and incorporated as the Archer Daniels Midland Company, establishing the ADM name and significantly expanding the company's operations and capabilities.

Creation of Archer Daniels Midland Company

ADM was listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ADM, providing access to public capital markets and enabling decades of expansion and acquisition-driven growth.

NYSE Listing

ADM relocated its headquarters from Minneapolis to Decatur, Illinois, positioning the company closer to its expanding soybean processing operations in the heart of American agricultural production.

Headquarters Move to Decatur, Illinois

ADM made its first expansion into Europe and South America, acquiring soybean plants in Holland and Brazil, marking the beginning of the company's transformation into a truly global agricultural processor.

First International Expansion

ADM began recasting its image, abandoning its slogan 'Supermarket to the World' and adopting the new tagline 'The Nature of What's to Come' with a green leaf logo, signaling focus on innovation and sustainability.

Rebranding Initiative

ADM paid $400 million to resolve allegations of collusion in fixing prices for high-fructose corn syrup, marking a significant legal and financial settlement in the company's history.

Settlement of Price-Fixing Allegations

ADM opened its global headquarters and customer center in downtown Chicago at 77 West Wacker Drive, bringing together approximately 70 employees in a strategic move to a major business and transportation hub, while maintaining North American headquarters in Decatur.

Headquarters Move to Chicago

ADM realigned its business from four units into three core segments—Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition—streamlining operations and clarifying strategic focus areas.

Business Segment Realignment

ADM announced that its U.S. flour milling operations had achieved net carbon neutral status, demonstrating leadership in sustainability and environmental responsibility within the agricultural processing industry.

U.S. Flour Milling Achieves Carbon Neutrality

ADM disclosed that the SEC requested information regarding accounting practices at its nutrition business related to intersegment transactions. The company suspended its CFO, postponed earnings reports, and cooperated with the investigation.

SEC Investigation Disclosure

ADM appointed Monish Patolawala as Executive Vice President and CFO effective August 1, 2024. Patolawala joined from 3M where he served as President and CFO, bringing extensive finance and technology leadership experience.

Appointment of New CFO

ADM announced achieving its 2025 regenerative agriculture goal a year early by engaging over 28,000 growers across more than 5 million acres, reducing Scope 3 emissions by over 1 million metric tons of greenhouse gases.

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