Archer Daniels Midland Co
The Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is an American global food-processing and commodities-trading corporation, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company operates more than 270 plants and 420 crop procurement facilities worldwide, where cereal grains and oilseeds are processed into products used in food, beverage, nutraceutical, industrial, and animal feed markets worldwide.
1928 The American Linseed Company's directors have approved the sale of linseed properties, one half to the Spencer Kellogg Company and one half to the Archer Daniels Midland Company, thus eliminating their linseed oil business.[1]
1965 "...announced that it has established a wholly-owned subsidiary in England to produce and market foundry chemicals. The new company ADM Chemicals Ltd. is to be located in Birmingham.[2]
1990 " ... acquisition of (its) oil milling operation, Erith Oil Works, whose asset value is £28 million, by Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), a US agribusiness with headquarters in Illinois.[3]
1999 subsidiary: Archer Daniels Midland Ingredients Limited of Erith, Kent[4]
2002 Associated British Foods is set to sell six of its nine flour mills - including one in Edinburgh - to US mill giant Archer Daniels Midland for an undisclosed sum.[5]