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Louis Dreyfus Commodities

Louis Dreyfus Commodities, one of the world’s leading commodity merchants and processors of agricultural products, has merchandised and traded bulk commodities in international markets since 1851.

LDCommodities is ranked number one in world cotton merchandising and is one of the three largest producers of orange juice with a 15-percent share of the global market. The company is also a leader in the grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, rice, metals, freight and emerging financial trading markets. >> Go To About the Company

LDCommodities has an emerging worldwide presence in the expanding biofuels sector, including a leading position in the Brazilian ethanol market, and is currently building the largest biodiesel refinery in the United States. >>Go To Biofuels

LDCommodities operates from five major regions (Argentina, Brazil, North America, Europe and Asia), and offices in Beijing, Buenos Aires, Delhi, Geneva, São Paulo, Singapore and Wilton (USA) serve as major coordination centers for merchandising activities.

LDCommodities is an affiliate of the Louis Dreyfus Group, an organization of diversified companies privately owned by the Louis-Dreyfus family. Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the chairman of LDCommodities and president and chief executive officer of the Louis Dreyfus Group, was formerly chairman of Neuf Telecom and chief executive officer of Adidas, Saatchi & Saatchi and IMS.

The global activities of LDCommodities are vertically integrated under a holding company, Louis Dreyfus Commodities BV, which is based in the Netherlands.