Cargill France

What Cargill France does

Cargill France SAS is the French subsidiary of Cargill, Incorporated, a privately held US-based global agricultural and food conglomerate. Founded in France in 1964 with corn and soybean trading in Saint-Nazaire, the entity has grown into a multi-business operation headquartered at Paris La Défense, operating 17 manufacturing and operational sites concentrated in western France (Grand Ouest region). The legal entity operates through multiple wholly-owned subsidiaries including Cargill Cacao et Chocolat, Cargill Haubourdin SAS, Cargill Oil Packers France SAS, and Cargill Foods France SAS, alongside acquired sub-brands Neolait and Provimi in animal nutrition.

The company's product portfolio is organized into distinct business units rather than a unified platform: Agriculture (cereals and oilseeds origination, processing, marketing and distribution); Animal Nutrition (feed ingredients, premixes, concentrates, additives under Neolait and Provimi brands); BioIndustrial (nature-derived chemistries including Envirotemp™ dielectric fluids); Food & Beverage (starches, sweeteners, texturizers, oils, cocoa and chocolate for food manufacturers); Beauty & Personal Care and Pharmaceutical excipients; Poultry (primary and further-processed chicken products including Chicken McNuggets for McDonald's France); Risk Management (commodity price hedging services with 25+ years of experience across 15 global offices in 11 countries); and Cargill RegenConnect®, a voluntary regenerative agriculture program. Technical capabilities include a farm-to-fork traceability system able to link finished product back to original meat batch within 3 hours, and a video motion surveillance partnership with Oxford University (since 2011) for poultry health monitoring.

Revenue is generated primarily through B2B enterprise transactions across multiple segments—agricultural commodity trading, food ingredient supply, animal feed sales, processed poultry products, and risk management professional services—with no direct consumer sales channel. Key customers include McDonald's France (nearly 3,000 restaurants supplied from the Orléans plant for over 20 years) alongside a broad base of food manufacturers, food retailers, livestock producers, institutional investors, and biodiesel producers. The go-to-market is sales-led and field-based, with commercial services, marketing and administration centralized at Paris La Défense and trading operations hubbed in Nantes. Go-to-market is differentiated by capital-intensive processing assets (e.g., >1 million tonnes/year rapeseed capacity at Montoir-de-Bretagne, approximately 10% of French cereals and oilseeds harvest processed in-house) and a continuous M&A-driven portfolio expansion (Cerestar 2002, OCG Cacao 2003, Degussa food ingredients 2006, Provimi 2011).

Name

Cargill France

Legal name

Cargill France SAS

Website

https://cargill.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cargill France is the French subsidiary of Cargill, Incorporated, providing agricultural commodity trading, food ingredients, animal nutrition, processed poultry, bioindustrial solutions, and risk management services across 17 sites to food manufacturers, retailers, livestock producers, and food service operators.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Commodities and Food Ingredients

NAICS

Food Manufacturing (311), Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers (4245), Poultry and Poultry Product Merchant Wholesalers (424440), Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (42491), Other Food Manufacturing (3119)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000), Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150), Grain Mill Products (2040), Wholesale-Groceries & Related Products (5140), Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro primary industry

Import/Export & Cross-Border Food Commodity Trading (AFAIAKAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Starches, Flours & Milling Products Trading/Wholesale (AFAIAKAH), Meat, Poultry & Seafood Wholesale (AFAIABAF), Food Ingredients & Commodities Wholesale (Sugar, Flour, Oils, Spices) (AFAIABAK), Food-Grade Chemicals & Processing Aids Trading/Wholesale (AFAIAKAJ)

Keywords

• Agricultural commodities trading
• Food ingredients manufacturing
• Animal nutrition products
• Poultry processing services
• Commodity risk management

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris La Défense

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices14 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Agricultural Commodities Trading: Trading, processing, importing and exporting of cereals (wheat, corn, barley) and oilseeds (sunflower, rapeseed). Processing includes oil bottling and production of sunflower and rapeseed meal for animal feed markets.
2. Food Ingredients Production: Production of starch and derivative products, food ingredients, and texture agents. Major player following acquisitions of Cerestar (2002) and Degussa food activities (2006).
3. Cocoa and Chocolate: Industrial chocolate manufacturing and distribution following acquisition of OCG Cacao in 2003.
4. Animal Nutrition: Production and marketing of animal nutrition products including feed ingredients, premixes, concentrates, and additives. Includes Provimi and Neolait brands serving livestock, poultry, and aquaculture sectors.
5. Poultry Products: Manufacturing of chicken-based products including breaded chicken for retail, food service, and food manufacturing customers. Major supplier of Chicken McNuggets for McDonald's France.
6. Risk Management Services: Commodity price risk management solutions including hedging for grains, energy, currencies, and resins. More than 25 years of experience with 15 global offices in 11 countries.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Cargill France trades, processes, and distributes agricultural commodities (cereals and oilseeds) and manufactures a broad portfolio of food ingredients, animal nutrition products, processed poultry, bioindustrial solutions, and beauty/pharmaceutical excipients. It supplies food manufacturers, retailers, food service chains (notably McDonald's France), and animal producers through 17 industrial and operational sites across France. It also provides commodity price risk management and hedging services to institutional investors and commercial clients with 25+ years of experience.

Product overview

Cargill France operates as a diversified agricultural and food products conglomerate with a portfolio of distinct business units rather than a unified platform architecture. The company serves the food supply chain from farm to fork through: Agriculture (cereals and oilseeds trading and processing), Animal Nutrition (feed products, premixes, and additives under Neolait and Provimi brands), BioIndustrial (including Envirotemp™ dielectric fluids), Food & Beverage (ingredients for manufacturers), Beauty & Personal Care (nature-derived ingredients), Pharmaceutical (excipients and active ingredients), Poultry (processed chicken products), Risk Management (commodity hedging services), and Cargill RegenConnect® (sustainable agriculture program). The business units operate independently, each addressing specific segments of the food, agriculture, and industrial supply chains.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Neolait: Animal nutrition and hygiene products manufacturer, established for 80 years, delivering products directly in the field with a range to improve forage quality.
• Provimi

Products and services

• Agriculture (Cereals and Oilseeds Trading and Processing) Origination, processing, marketing and distribution of cereals (wheat, corn, barley, sorghum) and oilseeds (sunflower, rapeseed), including vegetable oils and meals for food and industrial applications. Serves food manufacturers, biodiesel industry, and animal feed markets across Europe.
• Animal Nutrition (Nutrition Animale) Innovative, scalable and sustainable animal nutrition solutions for the production animal industry, including feed ingredients, formulations, premixes, additives, and customized solutions for beef, dairy, poultry, swine, equine, and small ruminants.
• Neolait Animal Nutrition Brand

Quantifiable outcome

• 19% reduction in water use at all sites since 2010
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Oxford UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011Research partnership since 2011 to develop innovative video motion equipment for early detection of potential health problems in poultry flocks, supporting animal welfare improvements.
• Fédération Française des Banques Alimentaires (FFBA)coreOthers · 1 January 2010Long-term partnership since 2010 (renewed 2016) supporting food security through financial aid, food donations, employee volunteering, and food safety training. Over 600,000 euros donated since 2010. Employees from 17 sites participate in annual national collection campaigns.
• The Nature ConservancycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration to prevent illegal deforestation and develop a more responsible soybean supply chain for poultry feed ingredients. Working together on environmental sustainability across the supply chain from farm to fork.
• Ronald McDonald FoundationminorOthersOrléans site support for 9 Ronald McDonald houses in France providing accommodation for families of hospitalized children. Support includes charity events, donations, employee fundraising, and spring cleaning assistance.

Scale indicators18 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Roquette: French-headquartered global leader in starch, polyols, proteins, and other food/pharma/industrial ingredients; directly competes with Cargill's Cerestar-derived starch and sweeteners business and shares a French manufacturing base.
• Bunge: Global agribusiness peer operating oilseed processing, grain origination, and food ingredient businesses with European manufacturing footprint; closely comparable to Cargill France's cereals/oilseeds trading and food ingredient manufacturing.
• Archer Daniels Midland (ADM): Global agribusiness and food ingredients peer with overlapping commodity trading (grains, oilseeds), food ingredients (starches, sweeteners), and animal nutrition businesses, operating a comparable diversified B2B portfolio with manufacturing across Europe.
• Louis Dreyfus Company: French-headquartered global commodity merchant trading grains, oilseeds, and related food and feed ingredients; directly competes with Cargill France's agricultural commodity and oilseed crushing operations and shares a similar B2B trading model.
• Ingredion Incorporated: Global ingredient solutions company specializing in starches, sweeteners, and texturizers from corn, wheat, and other grains; directly competes with Cargill France's Haubourdin starch and sweeteners facility and broader food ingredient portfolio.
• Avril Group: French industrial group operating oilseed crushing (Saipol), animal nutrition (Sanders), and biofuel value chains; directly comparable to Cargill France's Montoir-de-Bretagne rapeseed crushing and Provimi/Neolait animal nutrition businesses.
• Tereos: French cooperative producing sugar, ethanol, starch, and grain-based ingredients for food, feed, and industrial markets; competes with Cargill France across starch, sweeteners, and agricultural commodity transformation in France.
• Kerry Group: Global food ingredients and flavors company supplying taste, nutrition, and functional ingredients to food and beverage manufacturers; comparable to Cargill France's Food & Beverage business unit offering texturizers, sweeteners, and chocolate.
• LDC Groupe: Major French poultry producer and European poultry leader directly competing with Cargill Foods France on breaded and further-processed chicken for retail and food service customers across France and Europe.

Regional players

• Bonduelle: French-headquartered global leader in prepared vegetables with B2B food processing and ingredient supply; comparable as a France-rooted diversified food processor with similar European manufacturing footprint and food-service customer base.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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