This week the United States Department of State honored three private companies for their role abroad as “good corporate citizens.” Cargill, the Minnesota-based animal feed company, took home the Secretary of State’s 2015 Award for Corporate Excellence, in recognition of the company’s work building 76 schools in Vietnam.
“It was nice to be recognized, because [we’re] a big food company and we’re privately owned. We don’t have consumer brands, we’re not well known, and I think sometimes people default to, well if I have haven’t heard of you, something bad must be happening,” Dave MacLennan, Cargill’s CEO, told Devex.
Cargill employs 150,000 people in 70 countries, and last year celebrated its 150th anniversary and reported more than $120 billion in revenue. It is one of the largest agriculture companies in the world — and an increasingly active player on the global development scene.
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Michael Igoe@AlterIgoe
Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.
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