other ood commodities, Cargill plays a leading role in palm oil markets. Te largest importer o palm oil into the U.S.14, Cargill both owns and operates palm oil plantations in Indonesia 15 and trades an estimated 25% o palm oil products in the global market.16 ...
Warren Buffett is affectionately known as the Oracle of Omaha, and for good reason. He's one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. Buffet is head of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company he founded, which owns dozens of other companies. Buffet, along with Bill and Melinda Gates, ...
The Plains, Virginia, where the hogs and steers were fed “imperfect” M&Ms shipped in from the company’s New Jersey plant. Today, Mars lives just a few miles from the family home at a property called Stonehall Farm, and she also owns a penthouse at the Watergate in Washington D.C...
- Source of wealth: Cargill Inc. - Headquarters: Minneapolis, MN According to Forbes, the Cargill-MacMillan family has 14 billionaires, the most of any family in the world. Cargill Inc. is worth nearly $115 billion andproduces and distributes food items, including sugar, turkey, and chocolate...
Jacqueline Mars's grandfather created Mars, Inc. in 1911. Mars owns a third of the privately held company and is well known for her charitable work. The Mars Foundation gives to environmental, animal rights, and other conservation groups, while Mars has personally donated millions to the arts ...
James Cargill II is one of 12 heirs to the Cargill corporation, which was founded by his great-grandfather in 1865. The Cargill family still controls roughly 90% of the company, which is now the second-largest privately owned business in the country. Famously private, Cargill II has long pr...