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Cargill in the UK
Cargill has been active in the UK since 1955, and employs more than 5 000 people in 18 plants and offices nationwide (see below). The UK head office is Cargill's European headquarters [57]. Operations include: AGRICULTURAL SUPPLIES • Agricultural merchanting and purchase of grain, PROCESSING • Maize wet milling, processing maize to produce glucose syrups and powder for the food, drink and pharmaceutical industries FINANCIAL • Futures Brokerage and risk management, OTHER • Worldwide agribusiness consultancy. Cargill's African operations are also run from the UK. |
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| Locations and sites
Below are the addresses only of Cargill sites that we believe handle GMOs (whether physically or on paper). It excludes the following: • Sun Valley, Cargill's poultry division, which claims to have removed GM ingredients from the feed it uses. GMOs enter the country in a number of ways: • Crude soyabeans are imported into Liverpool. Note that not all of the produce entering these ports is necessarily GMO. It mainly depends on the country of origin: broadly, soya or maize from the USA, rapeseed (canola) from Canada and soya from Argentina are likely to be GMO. Produce from anywhere else (including Brazil or Europe) is unlikely to be GMO. Ports Cargill PLC Quinnet Rimmer, Branch Dock 2, Gladstone Dock, Bootle, Liverpool, Merseyside L20 1BG Tel. 0151 933 6561 / 944 3700
Cargill imports soyabeans at the Gladstone Dock (and adjacent Royal Seaforth Grain Terminal), where they go to its crushing plant (which is at the docks) to produce edible oil and animal feed. This is the only soyabean crushing plant in the UK [58] and the major point of entry for GMOs into the country. While smaller than Rotterdam, it is one of the major ports bringing US soyabeans into Europe. From November - April, GM soyabeans are imported from the USA (with the exception of occasional identity-preserved (see Control Freaks report) non-GM beans). These will mostly have come from New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi, where Cargill has an enormous loading facility. Loading takes 3 days, and crossing the Atlantic takes 2 weeks. Greenpeace has been monitoring ships as they leave the Mississippi; however they often change course in mid-Atlantic due to a better price being offered somewhere else, and Cargill has also (for obvious reasons) been trying to mislead Greenpeace eg by changing ships' names. From May - October, non-GM Brazilian soyabeans are imported here. The terminal also receives wheat (non-GM) and maize for Cargill's dry milling. As at late 1999, the maize was imported from a non-GM source in Argentina [59]. The area is not a public place, with a security control on the dock road before it gets to Cargill. A GM-soyabean shipment arrives about once a week, but when it does, the whole place is crowded with police (horses, helicopter etc.), even the beaches around. The dock workers working at the dock pretty much hate GMOs. Note that not every cargo unloaded at Cargill's terminal actually belongs to Cargill - sometimes the company just provides offloading / handling services to other importers. See map at www.portofliverpool.co.uk/frames/map.htm Liverpool plant manager: John Sutton Cargill UK Ltd. Cargill's Liverpool office is at the Brocklebank Dock, in an area open to the public. Cargill also has a crushing plant here for non-GM rapeseed (mainly grown in the UK). Continental UK Ltd Animal feeds are imported via the Mulberry Terminal, which was built by Associated British Ports in 1995. Cargill's subsudiary Continental also has an export terminal at Southampton for (non-GM) wheat and barley. Cargill Milling Division Imports maize products, often from Cargill Netherlands, including syrups, starches, gluten meal, oils, animal feeds [60]. Also carries out wet milling of crude maize. At the end of 1999, the plant was using (non-GM) French maize, for technical reasons [61]. Maize imported here usually comes from European sources, but occasionally from North America. 170 employees [62]. Offices Cargill PLC (Europe) Cargill PLC Cargill Investor Services Cargill Technical Services Ltd. Ralli Brothers & Coney Cargill PLC Cargill Agricultural Division |
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| Top managers:
Country Manager: Graham Secker Vice president public affairs: Ruth Rawling [65]. Previously she hold posts at the UK Ministry of Agriculture, was advisor to Sir Leon Brittain at the EC Commission and was subsequently First Secretary (Agriculture) for the UK at the E C [66] European Communications Manager: Geraldine O'Shea, tel 01932 861 408 [67] |
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