nyse bg industry food processing founded 1818 founder johann p. g. bunge headquarters white plains new york united states operations ; bermuda legal domicile area served worldwide key people soren schroder ceo products list of products revenue us 57.828 billion 2014 number of employees 35 000 2013 1 website bunge.com bunge limited formerly bunge international and prior to that bunge y born is a global agribusiness and food company incorporated in bermuda 2 and headquartered in white plains united states . as well as being an international soybean exporter it is also involved in food processing grain trading and fertilizer . it competes with cargill and archer daniels midland . the company has over 35 000 employees at 400 facilities in 40 countries . 1 contents 1 history 2 controversies 3 products 4 environmental record 5 corporate governance 6 references 7 external links history edit the new york stock exchange on august 4 2011 when bunge celebrated the 10th anniversary of its listing on the exchange . bunge y born was founded in 1818 by johann peter gotlieb bunge in amsterdam it was relocated to antwerp by edouard bounge in 1859 . edouard s brother ; ernest bunge took the bunge name to argentina in 1884 and in 1905 the business extended to brazil and later on to the united states . the company was converted into the bermuda registered bunge international in 1994 retaining the bunge y born name only in argentina . bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders including the longtime controlling family interests and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company s gross annual turnover had reached us 13 billion . 3 bunge ultimately went public on the new york stock exchange in 2001 becoming bunge limited . 4 in 1994 the bermuda registered bunge international was created as the main company in which the families had shares . there were around 180 shareholders the main families were hirsch bunge born engels and de la tour . this replaced the older structure in which individual shareholders had stakes in all the different bunge companies . now only in argentina does the bunge y born name still exist . in 2001 bunge was listed on the new york stock exchange . through their three businesses agribusiness fertilizer and food products they have established a leading global presence in the farm to consumer food chain . bunge is the world s largest oilseed processor the world s number one seller of bottled vegetable oil to consumers and the largest producer and supplier of fertilizers to farmers in south america . in 2004 bunge acquired cereol parent of oilseed companies central soya and canamera foods . 5 in 2008 bunge acquired walter rau a margarine company from germany . in 2009 bunge acquired the margarine business from raisio group maker of functional food ingredients . 6 controversies edit in 2012 bunge came under criticism from ngo survival international 7 for sourcing its sugarcane from the ancestral land of the guaran people in brazil . it has been reported by the tribe that crop production has brought pesticides and machinery that has damaged their health as well as restricting them to a small area that has prevented them from hunting and practicing their traditions . in january 2003 opposition from the tribe led to the killing of their chief marcus vernon by ranchers . 8 in 2012 survivors are requesting bunge follows the example of the company ra zen which agreed to stop the sourcing of sugarcane from the area . 9 products edit the company s operations include 1 originating oilseeds and grains from the world s primary growing regions and transporting them to customers worldwide ; crushing oilseeds to make meal for the livestock industry and oil for the food processing food service and biofuel industries ; producing bottled oils mayonnaise margarines and other food products for consumers ; crushing sugarcane to make sugar ethanol and electricity ; milling wheat and corn for food processors bakeries brewers and other commercial customers ; and selling fertilizer to farmers . environmental record edit in 2006 the united states environmental protection agency filed charges against bunge company regarding pollution emissions . 10 this involved twelve soybean processing plants and corn mills in eight states throughout the us . the lawsuit claimed bunge violated the clean air act by constructing major modifications that increased emissions . bunge was required to implement engineering changes and pollution control projects estimated to cost 12 million to reduce emissions at the facilities by 2 200 tons a year . the settlement also called for bunge to pay a cash penalty of 625 000 and to spend 1.25 million to fund community based environmental projects selected by and to be supervised by the impacted states . 11 the state of kansas will receive 22 000 of the 625 000 civil penalty this being issued by the kansas department of health and environment . 12 corporate governance edit current team a o november 2015 13 soren schroder ceo bunge limited todd bastean ceo bunge north america drew burke chief financial officer bunge limited michael goettl ceo bunge asia gordon hardie managing director food & ingredients bunge limited enrique humanes ceo bunge southern cone tommy jensen ceo bunge europe middle east & africa david g. kabbes general counsel and managing director corporate affairs pierre mauger chief development officer bunge limited raul padilla ceo bunge brazil vicente teixeira chief personnel officer bunge limited brian thomsen managing director bunge global agribusiness and ceo bunge product lines former team members frank jimenez general counsel secretary and managing director corporate affairs bunge limited christopher white senior advisor bunge limited references edit a b c agribusiness food production company bunge . bunge.com . bunge limited a company incorporated under the laws of bermuda for bunge bg . wikinvest.com . clar n la retirada final del grupo bunge & born spanish agricultural history history of bunge limited . bunge.com . bunge limited to acquire ft. wayne s central soya . insideindianabusiness.com . http www.raisiogroup.com www page responsibility survival international . us food giant accused over biofuel tainted with indian blood . survivalinternational.org . ryan villarreal 8 december 2012 . deadly ethanol brazil s sugarcane farms take toll on indigenous people . international business times . survival international . shell scraps controversial biofuels plan after brazilian indian protest . survivalinternational.org . bunge north america inc. . lawyersandsettlements.com . 10 26 2006 13.9 million clean air act settlement with multinational soybean and corn processor secures major pollution reductions in eight states settlement expected to eliminate more than 2 200 tons of harmful emissions annually . epa.gov . findarticles.com cbsi . bunge management team . bunge.com . retrieved 2015 11 05 . external links edit official website bunge limited companies grouped at opencorporates retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bunge limited & oldid 733837665 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangemultinational food companiesgrain companies of the united statesmultinational companies headquartered in the united stateshidden categories articles with spanish language external linksopencorporates groupings navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages danskdeutschespa ol fran aisportugu srom n edit links this page was last modified on 10 august 2016 at 12 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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