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The Cargill–MacMillan family—descendants of W.W. Cargill and John H. MacMillan—remain the dominant owners of Cargill Inc., collectively holding roughly 87–90% of the company and numbering roughly “abo...
The Cargill‑MacMillan family are the majority owners of Cargill Inc.; sources estimate roughly 80–90% family ownership and put the family’s collective wealth in the tens of billions, with at least a d...
The Cargill and MacMillan families are not separate unrelated dynasties: they form a single extended lineage commonly described as the , descended from founder William Wallace Cargill and linked by hi...
The widely reported figure is that descendants of the Cargill and MacMillan families collectively control roughly 87–90% of Cargill Inc.; multiple reputable outlets and compilations converge on an est...
Cargill Inc. began as a single grain-storage business founded by William W. Cargill in 1865 and across more than a century grew into the largest private agribusiness in the United States under sustain...
William Wallace “W.W.” Cargill (1844–1909) founded Cargill in 1865; his daughter Edna married John H. MacMillan Sr. in 1895, creating the two persistent ownership branches — the Cargills and the MacMi...
Members of the Cargill–MacMillan clan continue to run large philanthropic vehicles and exert business influence largely through Cargill Inc. and family foundations such as Margaret A. Cargill Philanth...
The Cargill‑MacMillan family, owners of Cargill Inc., is tied to repeated controversies over environmental damage, alleged human‑rights abuses in supply chains, and a reputation for secrecy and diseng...
Public reporting reviewed shows no documented shift in Cargill Inc.’s ownership caused by births, marriages, divorces, or deaths among Cargill‑MacMillan heirs since 2020; the family continues to contr...
The Cargill–MacMillan families together control roughly 86–90% of Cargill Inc., with Forbes and multiple business outlets estimating family ownership around 88% and some sources saying about 90% . Key...