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The Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADMC) (NYSE: ADM) is a conglomerate headquartered in Decatur, Illinois.[2][3][4] ADM operates more than 270 plants worldwide, where cereal grains and oilseeds are processed into products used in food, beverage, nutraceutical, industrial and animal feed markets worldwide.
ADM also provides agricultural storage and transportation services. The American River Transportation Company along with ADM Trucking, Inc are subsidiaries of ADM. ADM's revenues for fiscal year 2010 were US $61.7 billion.[1]
ADM Food Ingredients
Many of the world’s largest and best-known food manufacturers rely on ADM for hundreds of essential food ingredients. Our high-quality ingredients from agriculture are in many of the products consumers use and enjoy every day, from grains and meats to salad oils, yogurt and chocolate. In 2011, 2010 and 2009, ADM was named the most admired company in the food production industry by Fortune.
Baking & Cereals
ADM supplies the baking industry with over 400 staple baking ingredients. Our product offerings also include a full line of cocoa powders, and chocolate and compound products in a variety of forms to meet a wide range of customer applications.
Beverages
ADM spearheaded the development and application of corn sweeteners for the soft drink and beverage industry. Today, we are one of the leading producers of corn sweeteners at our five state-of-the-art production facilities in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota.
Candy & Confectionery
No one knows cocoa, chocolate, compound coatings and other confectionery ingredients better than ADM. With our experience and advantages of scale, you'll find it’s simply easier and more rewarding to do business with a world-leading supplier.
Dairy
Consumers love the wholesomeness of dairy foods, and new ones are appearing every day – like flavored milks in convenience packaging, or the new yogurts that you can both drink and pour. ADM has a stable of ingredients that can help make your dairy products taste great, while maintaining their freshness and stability.
Meat Products
Vegetable proteins can improve taste, texture and nutrition, enhancing the appeal of an infinite number of meat products. And for the latest soy-based meat replacements, you won't find a broader range of ingredient options, expertise and support for soy-based foods than you get with ADM.
Other Processed Foods
Whether your end product is a Salisbury steak in the freezer case, creamy ranch salad dressing in a bottle, or chicken vegetable soup in the can, you face a multitude of challenges along the way. Your product has to survive the rigors of preparation, packaging, shipment, and time itself. ADM has the ingredients, expertise and service to help you succeed.
Snack Foods
Consumers today want snacks in more varieties and with more healthful qualities. ADM can help you compete in this fast-changing marketplace with all the essential ingredients you need, plus an ever-growing line of functional and nutritional ingredients.
ADM Feed Ingredients
Aquaculture
The growing aquaculture industry is continually challenged to meet growing worldwide demand, produce an attractive product, fight diseases and reduce pollution within the aquaculture environment. ADM has a number of quality feed ingredients that address these issues, including amino acids and fishmeal alternatives.
Cattle & Sheep
At different stages in life, beef cattle have different nutritional demands. Yet the producer’s main goal always remains the same: to optimize performance. ADM is dedicated to providing beef operations and feed manufacturers with innovative nutritional technologies— and the best cost positions—on feed ingredients, additives and other specialty ingredients.
Companion Animals
People with companion animals often don’t think of them merely as pets, but as part of the family. That’s why their animal’s overall health and a long life are goals they value highly. ADM offers a number of ingredients for the companion animal food manufacturer to help dogs and cats live healthy lives. From lecithin to natural-source vitamin E, we have what you need to help you give consumers what they want.
Dairy
Dairy producers seek feed ingredients that, when used in combinations, will optimize production and profit. ADM is dedicated to providing dairy operations and feed manufacturers with innovative nutritional ingredients and technologies. These technologies not only increase milk production efficiency, they may also enhance the effectiveness of the cow’s immune system.
Equine
ADM offers a number of ingredients for the horse feed manufacturer that enable horses to live long and healthy lives. We have the essential fatty acids and highly digestible fiber that you require, to make horse feeds meet your customers’ needs.
Poultry
ADM’s animal health and nutrition business supports broiler, layer and turkey operations with exactly the help they need—products, services or a combination of both. ADM has an extensive line of feed ingredients to help you deal with feed and food quality and environmental safety issues. We also provide those same offerings for other poultry species such as ducks, geese, pheasants, quail and other game birds.
Swine
ADM has an extensive line of feed ingredients to help you both environmentally and economically. From our main ingredients like vegetable proteins, co-products, grains, milling co-products, and corn processing co-products to amino acids, lecithin, and organic acids, we have the ingredients you need to raise more productive, healthier swine.
Fuel
The world is expected to consume 55 percent more energy by 2030 than it did in 2005. But with petroleum reserves declining and emissions from traditional fossil fuels increasing, there is a growing need to draw upon cleaner, renewable, sustainable energy sources to meet rising global demand.
Today, biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are the only alternative transportation fuels available to consumers, and ADM is a leading producer of both.
ADM Industrial Products
Construction
ADM produces modified vegetable-based oils for a new generation of wood preservatives that resist mold, decay and termites, yet make less impact on the environment than their chemical-based predecessors.
Household Products
ADM offers a consistent, cost-effective stream of intermediate products for formulation of detergents, cleaners and other household products. In addition to excellent performance, ADM products are agriculturally based, appealing to mainstream consumers—and to the environmentally conscientious.
Industrial Chemicals
A more economical ethanol for your business. A biodegradable replacement for chlorinated solvents. An environmentally sound alternative to detergent phosphates. ADM offers an ever-expanding list of innovative products.
Mining & Drilling
ADM offers mud-thickening OptiXan™ xanthan gum and emulsifiers for exceptional performance that meets tough environmental regulations.
Packaging
Price competitiveness drives success in the domestic packaging materials production industry. You want the right materials at the best prices, delivered on time. ADM is committed to providing the quality starches you need at a fair price, supported by world-class production facilities, distribution infrastructure and customer service.
Paints, Inks & Coatings
ADM helps you tackle the environmental issues of VOCs and toxicity by seeking solutions from nature. It’s an approach that has made us a world leader in supplying quality natural-based products to the paints and coatings industry.
Personal Care
Nature provides some of the world’s best personal care ingredients. ADM taps that potential, offering vegetable-based lipids, natural antioxidants and soya ingredients that can give your products enhanced performance.
Bioplastics
As the marketplace demands more sustainable products, and as you enhance your plastics specificatons for biobased content and performance, you can look to ADM as a primary source for inputs made from renewable resources.
Pulp & Paper
In the U.S. pulp and paper industry, change has become the norm: the rise of low-priced imports, the trend toward a “paperless society,” and more diversified paper demand. Your ideal starch supplier should bring you the raw materials and production expertise that run the gamut, to help you manufacture everything from recycled papers and copy papers to high-end fine and glossy stocks. That supplier is ADM.
Brands
Archer Daniels Midland Company produces thousands of ingredients used worldwide in food, animal feed, nutrition, cosmetics, and even by the industrial and chemical industries. Within this extensive offering of products are brands known and respected around the globe.
Ambrosia®
For well over 100 years, the Ambrosia brand has earned a reputation as the most complete source of quality chocolate products.
CardioAid™
Research shows that consumers want to learn about lowering cholesterol and that nearly 60 percent of adults with high cholesterol adopt lifestyle changes to treat it. Now food manufacturers can meet the needs of health-conscious consumers by helping them make those lifestyle changes with ADM’s line of CardioAid plant sterols.
deZaan™
deZaan cocoa powders are known throughout the world as consistent, high-quality ingredients for bakery, dairy, confectionery and beverage applications.
EnviroStrip®
ADM’s EnviroStrip dry-stripping products are an alternative to plastic and chemical paint-stripping solvents. They are used for commercial, private and military aircraft.
Evolution Chemicals™
Today, consumers and customers are seeking sustainable products. To help meet that growing demand, ADM, a global leader in agricultural processing, offers Evolution Chemicals.
Merckens®
Known for consistent and superior quality, the Merckens brand of chocolate has been used by premium chocolate retail confectioners for over 80 years.
NovaLipid™
Our NovaLipid line offers fats and oils specifically formulated to contain little or no trans fat.
Novasoy®
Isoflavones are believed to help maintain bone and heart health. And ADM, maker of the Novasoy brand, is one of the largest isoflavone producers in the world.
NutriSoy®
ADM's NutriSoy soy protein is a naturally derived, high-quality protein designed to fortify food products-and their labels.
VegeFull™
VegeFull, ADM’s line of bean ingredients, provides a convenient way for food manufacturers to take advantage of the many nutritional benefits of beans when creating better-for-you foods that consumers will enjoy.
Grain Merchandising
ADM’s Grain Trading Group is the link between agricultural production, the processing operations of ADM and global destination markets. Unlike other trading entities, we provide customers at both ends of the supply pipeline the broadest array of grain marketing alternatives, while maintaining the most competitive pricing. ADM surpasses traditional functions of a trading company by building relationships with customers that focus on meeting their specific needs to increase their level of success.
No other global processing and trading firm works as closely with its customers as ADM. Our customer-focused programs include: customer-oriented information, multiple insurance coverage, tailored marketing products, grain marketing advisory services and a full line up of financial-related services. These products and services are derived from ADM’s superior financial strength and expertise in risk management. ADM delivers many of its products and services via its Web site: https://www.e-adm.com. This state-of-the-art technology delivers up-to-the minute contractual, logistical and accounting information to customers. This information pipeline includes timely commodity exchange prices, multiple forms of weather information and general agricultural and economic news and analysis.
Our operations are strategically located to maximize operational efficiency. ADM operates a network of more than 330 grain elevators, spanning the United States, South America, Canada and other major global agricultural regions. The “eye of the needle” for ADM’s processing and elevator system is a group of modern export terminals. These terminal facilities handle and coordinate the worldwide export of agricultural commodities and processed products.
Through enhanced customer relationships, we are dedicated to meeting the needs of customers and trading partners at any point along the marketing chain.
ADM also provides agricultural storage and transportation services. The American River Transportation Company along with ADM Trucking, Inc are subsidiaries of ADM. ADM's revenues for fiscal year 2010 were US $61.7 billion.[1]
ADM Food Ingredients
Many of the world’s largest and best-known food manufacturers rely on ADM for hundreds of essential food ingredients. Our high-quality ingredients from agriculture are in many of the products consumers use and enjoy every day, from grains and meats to salad oils, yogurt and chocolate. In 2011, 2010 and 2009, ADM was named the most admired company in the food production industry by Fortune.
Baking & Cereals
ADM supplies the baking industry with over 400 staple baking ingredients. Our product offerings also include a full line of cocoa powders, and chocolate and compound products in a variety of forms to meet a wide range of customer applications.
Beverages
ADM spearheaded the development and application of corn sweeteners for the soft drink and beverage industry. Today, we are one of the leading producers of corn sweeteners at our five state-of-the-art production facilities in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota.
Candy & Confectionery
No one knows cocoa, chocolate, compound coatings and other confectionery ingredients better than ADM. With our experience and advantages of scale, you'll find it’s simply easier and more rewarding to do business with a world-leading supplier.
Dairy
Consumers love the wholesomeness of dairy foods, and new ones are appearing every day – like flavored milks in convenience packaging, or the new yogurts that you can both drink and pour. ADM has a stable of ingredients that can help make your dairy products taste great, while maintaining their freshness and stability.
Meat Products
Vegetable proteins can improve taste, texture and nutrition, enhancing the appeal of an infinite number of meat products. And for the latest soy-based meat replacements, you won't find a broader range of ingredient options, expertise and support for soy-based foods than you get with ADM.
Other Processed Foods
Whether your end product is a Salisbury steak in the freezer case, creamy ranch salad dressing in a bottle, or chicken vegetable soup in the can, you face a multitude of challenges along the way. Your product has to survive the rigors of preparation, packaging, shipment, and time itself. ADM has the ingredients, expertise and service to help you succeed.
Snack Foods
Consumers today want snacks in more varieties and with more healthful qualities. ADM can help you compete in this fast-changing marketplace with all the essential ingredients you need, plus an ever-growing line of functional and nutritional ingredients.
ADM Feed Ingredients
Aquaculture
The growing aquaculture industry is continually challenged to meet growing worldwide demand, produce an attractive product, fight diseases and reduce pollution within the aquaculture environment. ADM has a number of quality feed ingredients that address these issues, including amino acids and fishmeal alternatives.
Cattle & Sheep
At different stages in life, beef cattle have different nutritional demands. Yet the producer’s main goal always remains the same: to optimize performance. ADM is dedicated to providing beef operations and feed manufacturers with innovative nutritional technologies— and the best cost positions—on feed ingredients, additives and other specialty ingredients.
Companion Animals
People with companion animals often don’t think of them merely as pets, but as part of the family. That’s why their animal’s overall health and a long life are goals they value highly. ADM offers a number of ingredients for the companion animal food manufacturer to help dogs and cats live healthy lives. From lecithin to natural-source vitamin E, we have what you need to help you give consumers what they want.
Dairy
Dairy producers seek feed ingredients that, when used in combinations, will optimize production and profit. ADM is dedicated to providing dairy operations and feed manufacturers with innovative nutritional ingredients and technologies. These technologies not only increase milk production efficiency, they may also enhance the effectiveness of the cow’s immune system.
Equine
ADM offers a number of ingredients for the horse feed manufacturer that enable horses to live long and healthy lives. We have the essential fatty acids and highly digestible fiber that you require, to make horse feeds meet your customers’ needs.
Poultry
ADM’s animal health and nutrition business supports broiler, layer and turkey operations with exactly the help they need—products, services or a combination of both. ADM has an extensive line of feed ingredients to help you deal with feed and food quality and environmental safety issues. We also provide those same offerings for other poultry species such as ducks, geese, pheasants, quail and other game birds.
Swine
ADM has an extensive line of feed ingredients to help you both environmentally and economically. From our main ingredients like vegetable proteins, co-products, grains, milling co-products, and corn processing co-products to amino acids, lecithin, and organic acids, we have the ingredients you need to raise more productive, healthier swine.
Fuel
The world is expected to consume 55 percent more energy by 2030 than it did in 2005. But with petroleum reserves declining and emissions from traditional fossil fuels increasing, there is a growing need to draw upon cleaner, renewable, sustainable energy sources to meet rising global demand.
Today, biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are the only alternative transportation fuels available to consumers, and ADM is a leading producer of both.
ADM Industrial Products
Construction
ADM produces modified vegetable-based oils for a new generation of wood preservatives that resist mold, decay and termites, yet make less impact on the environment than their chemical-based predecessors.
Household Products
ADM offers a consistent, cost-effective stream of intermediate products for formulation of detergents, cleaners and other household products. In addition to excellent performance, ADM products are agriculturally based, appealing to mainstream consumers—and to the environmentally conscientious.
Industrial Chemicals
A more economical ethanol for your business. A biodegradable replacement for chlorinated solvents. An environmentally sound alternative to detergent phosphates. ADM offers an ever-expanding list of innovative products.
Mining & Drilling
ADM offers mud-thickening OptiXan™ xanthan gum and emulsifiers for exceptional performance that meets tough environmental regulations.
Packaging
Price competitiveness drives success in the domestic packaging materials production industry. You want the right materials at the best prices, delivered on time. ADM is committed to providing the quality starches you need at a fair price, supported by world-class production facilities, distribution infrastructure and customer service.
Paints, Inks & Coatings
ADM helps you tackle the environmental issues of VOCs and toxicity by seeking solutions from nature. It’s an approach that has made us a world leader in supplying quality natural-based products to the paints and coatings industry.
Personal Care
Nature provides some of the world’s best personal care ingredients. ADM taps that potential, offering vegetable-based lipids, natural antioxidants and soya ingredients that can give your products enhanced performance.
Bioplastics
As the marketplace demands more sustainable products, and as you enhance your plastics specificatons for biobased content and performance, you can look to ADM as a primary source for inputs made from renewable resources.
Pulp & Paper
In the U.S. pulp and paper industry, change has become the norm: the rise of low-priced imports, the trend toward a “paperless society,” and more diversified paper demand. Your ideal starch supplier should bring you the raw materials and production expertise that run the gamut, to help you manufacture everything from recycled papers and copy papers to high-end fine and glossy stocks. That supplier is ADM.
Brands
Archer Daniels Midland Company produces thousands of ingredients used worldwide in food, animal feed, nutrition, cosmetics, and even by the industrial and chemical industries. Within this extensive offering of products are brands known and respected around the globe.
Ambrosia®
For well over 100 years, the Ambrosia brand has earned a reputation as the most complete source of quality chocolate products.
CardioAid™
Research shows that consumers want to learn about lowering cholesterol and that nearly 60 percent of adults with high cholesterol adopt lifestyle changes to treat it. Now food manufacturers can meet the needs of health-conscious consumers by helping them make those lifestyle changes with ADM’s line of CardioAid plant sterols.
deZaan™
deZaan cocoa powders are known throughout the world as consistent, high-quality ingredients for bakery, dairy, confectionery and beverage applications.
EnviroStrip®
ADM’s EnviroStrip dry-stripping products are an alternative to plastic and chemical paint-stripping solvents. They are used for commercial, private and military aircraft.
Evolution Chemicals™
Today, consumers and customers are seeking sustainable products. To help meet that growing demand, ADM, a global leader in agricultural processing, offers Evolution Chemicals.
Merckens®
Known for consistent and superior quality, the Merckens brand of chocolate has been used by premium chocolate retail confectioners for over 80 years.
NovaLipid™
Our NovaLipid line offers fats and oils specifically formulated to contain little or no trans fat.
Novasoy®
Isoflavones are believed to help maintain bone and heart health. And ADM, maker of the Novasoy brand, is one of the largest isoflavone producers in the world.
NutriSoy®
ADM's NutriSoy soy protein is a naturally derived, high-quality protein designed to fortify food products-and their labels.
VegeFull™
VegeFull, ADM’s line of bean ingredients, provides a convenient way for food manufacturers to take advantage of the many nutritional benefits of beans when creating better-for-you foods that consumers will enjoy.
Grain Merchandising
ADM’s Grain Trading Group is the link between agricultural production, the processing operations of ADM and global destination markets. Unlike other trading entities, we provide customers at both ends of the supply pipeline the broadest array of grain marketing alternatives, while maintaining the most competitive pricing. ADM surpasses traditional functions of a trading company by building relationships with customers that focus on meeting their specific needs to increase their level of success.
No other global processing and trading firm works as closely with its customers as ADM. Our customer-focused programs include: customer-oriented information, multiple insurance coverage, tailored marketing products, grain marketing advisory services and a full line up of financial-related services. These products and services are derived from ADM’s superior financial strength and expertise in risk management. ADM delivers many of its products and services via its Web site: https://www.e-adm.com. This state-of-the-art technology delivers up-to-the minute contractual, logistical and accounting information to customers. This information pipeline includes timely commodity exchange prices, multiple forms of weather information and general agricultural and economic news and analysis.
Our operations are strategically located to maximize operational efficiency. ADM operates a network of more than 330 grain elevators, spanning the United States, South America, Canada and other major global agricultural regions. The “eye of the needle” for ADM’s processing and elevator system is a group of modern export terminals. These terminal facilities handle and coordinate the worldwide export of agricultural commodities and processed products.
Through enhanced customer relationships, we are dedicated to meeting the needs of customers and trading partners at any point along the marketing chain.