18 Facts About Bunge Limited

Bunge Limited is an American agribusiness and food company, incorporated in Bermuda, and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, United States.

Edouard's brother; Ernest Bunge Limited, took the Bunge Limited name to Argentina in 1884, and in 1905 the business extended to Brazil and later on to the United States.

Bunge Limited was converted into the Bermuda-registered Bunge International in 1994, retaining the Bunge y Born name only in Argentina.

Bunge Limited remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders 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.

In 1994, the Bermuda-registered Bunge Limited International was created as the main company in which the families had shares.

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Now only in Argentina does the Bunge Limited y Born name still exist.

Bunge Limited 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 2002, Bunge Limited acquired Cereol, parent of oilseed companies Central Soya and CanAmera Foods.

In 2008, Bunge Limited acquired Walter Rau, a margarine company, from Germany.

In 2009, Bunge Limited acquired the margarine business from Raisio Group, maker of functional food ingredients.

In 2012, Bunge Limited came under criticism from NGO Survival International for sourcing its sugarcane from the ancestral land of the Guarani people in Brazil.

In 2012, survivors were requesting Bunge Limited follows the example of the company Raizen, which agreed to stop the sourcing of sugarcane from the area.

In early June 2017, Bunge Limited hired advisers to help it fend off Glencore's takeover interest.

In 2019, Bunge Limited relocated its global headquarters from White Plains, New York, to the St Louis metropolitan area in 2020, where the company had its US headquarters.

In 2021, Bunge Limited was ranked 18th on FoodTalks' Global Top 40 Plant Protein Producers list.

The lawsuit claimed Bunge Limited violated the Clean Air Act by constructing major modifications that increased emissions.

Bunge Limited 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.

In November 2005, Bunge Limited created a Europe production joint venture biodiesel with French company KBBV and Diester Industrie.