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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...
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...
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...
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...