Bunge Global SA (Q23)

Overview

Bunge Global SA is a global agribusiness and food company with widespread operations. Founded in 1818 and headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri, the company engages in a broad range of activities within the agricultural and food processing industries. Its operations are segmented into four primary areas: Agribusiness, Refined and Specialty Oils, Milling, and Sugar and Bioenergy. Bunge's extensive portfolio covers the procurement, storage, transportation, processing, and sale of agricultural commodities and products. This comprehensive approach allows Bunge to serve a diverse customer base, which includes animal feed manufacturers, livestock producers, biofuel companies, food manufacturers, grocery chains, and more, thus playing a critical role in the global food supply chain.

Products and Services

Bunge Global SA offers a wide range of products and services across its four main segments:

• Agribusiness: This segment focuses on handling agricultural commodities like soybeans, rapeseed, canola, sunflower seeds, wheat, and corn. It involves purchasing, storing, transporting, and processing these commodities into vegetable oils and protein meals. The processed products are primarily aimed at animal feed manufacturers, livestock producers, wheat and corn millers, and oilseed processors. Furthermore, it caters to third-party edible oil processing and biofuel companies for the production of biofuels.
• Refined and Specialty Oils: This segment provides an array of packaged and bulk oils and fats, which include cooking oils, shortenings, margarines, mayonnaise, renewable diesel feedstocks, and other essential products used by baked goods companies, snack food producers, and confectioners. Additionally, it serves restaurant chains, foodservice operators, infant nutrition companies, and other food manufacturers, along with grocery chains, wholesalers, distributors, and other retailers. The oils are refined and fractionated from various sources such as palm oil, palm kernel oil, coconut oil, shea butter, and olive oil. Speciality ingredients like lecithin are also produced.
• Milling: This segment offers wheat flours and bakery mixes, corn milling products including dry-milled corn meals and flours, wet-milled masa, flours, flaking and brewer's grits, and more. Products from non-GMO sources are also available. Target customers include the food processing industry, with a significant focus on bakery and snack food sectors.
• Sugar and Bioenergy: Focusing on the production of sugar and ethanol, this segment leverages the process of generating electricity from burning sugarcane bagasse. It represents Bunge's commitment to sustainable energy sources, highlighting the company's role in the bioenergy sector.