# Archer-Daniels-Midland Co

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## Overview

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) is a global agricultural supply-chain manager and processor, operating across agriculture, food and beverage, animal nutrition, and bio-based products. Its purpose is “unlocking the power of nature to enrich the quality of life.” [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P22117521) The company sources, transports, stores, and processes crops, producing products such as vegetable oils and protein meals, sweeteners and starches, food and nutrition ingredients, animal-feed products, and biofuels. Its principal businesses are Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P109162038)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P20255640)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P62929723)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P105632958)

ADM reported 2025 revenue of $80.269 billion. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T4834588) Its global operations connect crops and markets across 200 countries and six world regions. [7](https://www.adm.com/en-us/about-adm/locations/) ADM reported a workforce of 41,000 in 2022; this is a dated company figure, not a current headcount. [8](https://www.adm.com/en-us/news/news-releases/2022/9/adm-marks-120-years-creating-nutritions-future/)
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## Products & services

ADM sells a broad range of oilseed-derived products. Its portfolio includes vegetable oils, sold crude or partially refined and further processed into salad oils, margarine, shortening, biodiesel and glycols; protein meals used mainly in livestock and poultry feed; peanut ingredients; and cotton cellulose pulp for industrial uses. Related services include crop sourcing, storage, handling and multimodal transport, as well as structured trade finance. [9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P145974761)

Its Carbohydrate Solutions products include sweeteners, starches, syrups, glucose, wheat flour and dextrose for food and beverages; ethanol for fuel and industrial use; and coproducts such as corn oil, distillers’ grains, corn gluten feed and meal. ADM also processes corn germ into oil and protein meal and makes citric acid for food and industrial applications. The company reports carbon capture and storage among its capabilities. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P145974767)

Nutrition products span human food, beverage and supplement ingredients, and animal feed, premixes, additives, pet foods and treats. Named categories include plant-based proteins, natural flavors and colors, flavor systems, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics, enzymes, and botanical extracts. ADM’s named offerings include ProFam® soy protein isolates, Fibersol® soluble prebiotic fiber, Colors from Nature™ color ingredients, and Texperien® starches; its starch portfolio includes native, functional native, modified, resistant and moulding starches. [11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P145974768)[12](https://www.adm.com/globalassets/products--services/human-nutrition/products/alternative-proteins/soy-protein/soy-protein-isolates/adm-soy-protein-isolates-product-sheet-eng-na-2025.pdf)[13](https://www.adm.com/en-us/products-services/human-nutrition/products/microbiome-solutions/prebiotics/)[14](https://www.adm.com/en-us/products-services/human-nutrition/products/colors/)[15](https://www.adm.com/en-us/products-services/human-nutrition/products/starches/)

ADM reports financial performance by business segment, not by individual product, so product-specific shares of revenue are not stated in the cited reporting. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16707127)
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## Geographic presence

ADM describes a global operating network spanning North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, with connections to markets in 200 countries. Its locations page lists 325 processing plants and 335 procurement sites [7](https://www.adm.com/en-us/about-adm/locations/). The company reports consolidated subsidiaries in more than 75 countries [17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P15957658).

Its regional footprint includes a North American regional headquarters in Decatur, Illinois, and 191 processing plants and 233 procurement centers in North America [18](https://www.adm.com/en-us/about-adm/locations/north-america/). ADM says it operates in more than 20 European countries and four African countries, with its European headquarters in Rolle, Switzerland [19](https://www.adm.com/en-us/about-adm/locations/europe-middle-east-africa/). Its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters are in Singapore and Shanghai [20](https://www.adm.com/en-us/about-adm/locations/asia-pacific/). The South American locations page lists Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay [21](https://www.adm.com/en-us/about-adm/locations/south-america/).

ADM’s FY2025 filing reports property, plant and equipment by physical location, rather than sales revenue by geography: at year-end, net book value was $7.007 billion in the United States, $899 million in Brazil, and $3.273 billion in other foreign locations—about 62.7%, 8.0%, and 29.3% of the total, respectively [22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T5613497). The filing does not provide revenue shares by country or region [23](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7084/000000708426000011/adm-20251231.htm). ADM reported 41,496 employees worldwide at December 31, 2025; a complete geographic breakdown of employees is not provided in the cited disclosures [23](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7084/000000708426000011/adm-20251231.htm).
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## Business segments

ADM reports three business segments. Ag Services and Oilseeds covers global agricultural commodity origination, merchandising, transportation and storage; oilseed crushing and processing; and products including vegetable oils and protein meals. Its activities also include peanuts and related ingredients, cotton cellulose pulp, and structured trade finance. It generated $33.917 billion, or approximately 78.6% of consolidated revenue, in the six months ended June 30, 2026. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P145974760)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P145974761)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16707107)

Carbohydrate Solutions processes corn and wheat through wet- and dry-milling operations, producing food and beverage ingredients such as sweeteners, starches, syrups, flour and dextrose, as well as fermentation products including ethanol and related co-products. It generated $5.316 billion, approximately 12.3% of consolidated revenue, in the first half of 2026. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P145974767)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16707107)

Nutrition supplies ingredients and solutions for human food, beverages and supplements, and for animal feed, pet food and treats. Its offerings include plant proteins, flavors, colors, probiotics, enzymes and specialty food and feed ingredients. It generated $3.707 billion, approximately 8.6% of consolidated revenue, in the first half of 2026. [11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P145974768)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16707107) ADM also reported $231 million of revenue from Other Business, outside these three reportable segments; the percentages above use consolidated revenue of $43.171 billion as the denominator and are rounded. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16707107)
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## Company history

Archer-Daniels-Midland traces its origins to a linseed-crushing business started by George A. Archer and John W. Daniels in Minneapolis in 1902. The company adopted the Archer Daniels Midland name in 1923, listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1924, entered grain merchandising in 1927 and began soybean crushing in 1929. [26](https://www.adm.com/en-us/about-adm/our-company/history/)[27](https://www.adm.com/globalassets/about-adm/our-company/history/cp-226633_historyofadmtimeline_240313v1.pdf)

Its expansion included the 1963 acquisition of the Commander-Larabee flour-milling business, the relocation of its headquarters to Decatur, Illinois, in 1974, and the acquisition of soybean-processing plants in Europe and South America in 1979. ADM formed Golden Peanut Company in 1994, invested in Wilmar in 1997 and acquired Glencore’s Brazilian operations in 2009. [27](https://www.adm.com/globalassets/about-adm/our-company/history/cp-226633_historyofadmtimeline_240313v1.pdf)

In 2014, ADM completed its acquisition of WILD Flavors; Juan Luciano became CEO in January 2015 and board chair in 2016. ADM completed its acquisition of animal-nutrition company Neovia in 2019, marking a further expansion of that business. [28](https://www.adm.com/en-us/news/news-releases/2014/10/adm-completes-acquisition-of-wild-flavors/)[29](https://www.adm.com/en-us/news/news-releases/2014/11/adm-names-juan-luciano-next-ceo-pat-woertz-remains-chairman/)[30](https://www.adm.com/en-us/about-adm/our-company/leadership/juan-r.-luciano/)[31](https://www.adm.com/en-us/news/news-releases/2019/2/with-completion-of-neovia-acquisition-adm-creates-premier-global-leader-in-animal-nutrition/)

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