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Cargill board elects David MacLennan as CEO

September 19, 2013

Effective Dec. 1, David MacLennan succeeds Gregory Page as CEO of Minnesota-based Cargill. Page will serve as executive chairman, while Emery Koenig is elected a vice chairman.

Starch trends: Clean label requests foster experimentation

Starch suppliers respond to specific ingredient demands from manufacturers, consumers.

Carla Zanetos Scully

September 16, 2013

“Organic compliance is still a niche market,” says Wen Shieh, technical leader for Cargill’s Texturizing Solutions. “Yet it is a market that traditional moulding starch will not be able to meet the regulations.”

Sustainable cocoa… that is the future

Bloomer, Cargill talk about hitting the 2020 goal, making cocoa farming profitable, and combating child labor

Bernie Pacyniak

August 28, 2013

According to most projections, about 60 percent of all cocoa grown in 2020 will need to be certified. That’s equals to about 2 million more tons. How does one go about doing that, one asks?

Cargill to hold Chocolatier's Workshop Sept. 23-25

Three-day, hands-on seminar melds confectionery making with business basics

Crystal Lindell

July 31, 2013

Tom and Debra Ocasio, owners of The Chocolate Lounge in Long Branch, N.J., recently participated and Tom says the amount of knowledge and expertise they received from the staff and the other participants was priceless.

Robert Weidner joins Blommer commodity team

Former Cargill v.p. to develop new sourcing strategy for cocoa and other commodities

Crystal Lindell

July 31, 2013

Robert Weidner has joined the Blommer commodity team as senior strategic sourcing manager.

Cargill breaks ground on Indonesian facility

One-hundred-million-dollar investment affirms company’s efforts to develop Asian cocoa sector, foster long-term sustainable cocoa production.

Amanda Gajdosik

May 8, 2013

In breaking ground on its first Asian cocoa processing plant in Gresik, in the East-Java region of Indonesia earlier this week, Cargill revealed how deep its commitment to develop the Asian cocoa sector is.

Sweeteners

Choices, challenges abound for sweeteners

Ongoing health concerns have stimulated development of a broad range of alternatives to sugar, including all-natural options. Traditional tastes, however, counter healthy yearnings, keeping the sector dynamic, albeit still developmental in many segments.

Bernie Pacyniak

February 28, 2013

Within the adult gum and mint categories, the switchover from sugar to sweetener alternatives has been nearly seamless. This gradual yet almost totally pervasive transition goes back several decades.

What’s happened to the cocoa butter/cocoa powder price relationship?

Experts provide their take on what’s happened to cocoa butter/cocoa powder pricing

Bernie Pacyniak

January 31, 2013

Hugo van der Goes, vice president commercial, Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate; Jeff Rasinski, director of commodities and corporate procurement, Blommer Chocolate Co.; and John Zima, director of sales, ADM Cocoa weigh in.

Truvia sweetener to expand global presence

December 27, 2012

Truvia, a Cargill brand, will expand its global presence throughout North America in early 2013 through an exclusive distribution with Grupo Herdez in Mexico and market openings in Canada.

Cargill’s CoroWise plant sterols receive Frost & Sullivan award

December 7, 2012

Frost & Sullivan presented its North American Product Leadership Award to Minneapolis-based Cargill in recognition of the company’s CoroWise Naturally Sourced Cholesterol Reducer plant sterols.