Cargill: Trading the World's Grain (Signed Copy)

Broehl, Wayne G. Jr.; Wayne G. Broehl Jr.

ISBN 10: 0874515726 / ISBN 13: 9780874515725

Published by Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 1992

About this Item

Thick, green-boards hardback with a dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Signed on the front free page plus " Best regards" with absolutely no further inscription, by the author. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a cardboard box. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. 1007 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cargill: Trading the World's Grain (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874515726
• ISBN 13: 9780874515725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Corporate History
  • Business/Corporate History

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Synopsis

Leading business historian Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. offers the first full-scale history of Cargill and its rise to international leadership among the "big five" grain traders, a group whose distinctions are private ownership and a passion for secrecy, even though they deal in the most "public" of commodities, the grains that feed the world.

In Broehl's account the Cargill story becomes a grand narrative history and reveals a classic example of the American tradition of development from a small-scale frontier enteprise to a complex international organization and a successful competitor in global markets. Cargill, International ranks highly on the Forbes list of the 400 largest private companies. Over the years the company has successfully integrated into its operations everything from manufacturing steel to squeezing oranges to turning chickens into McNuggets, but the core business was, and has remained grain, one of the basic building blocks of civilization.

Carefully documented from a rich lode of family and business correspondence made available for the first time, Cargill is history at its best. Wayne Broehl has continued the story of this remarkable company in Cargill: Going Global (1998).

About the Author

WAYNE G. BROEHL, JR. is Benjamin Ames Kimball Professor of the Science of Administration Emeritus, Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. His books include Tuck and Tucker: The Origin of the Graduate Business School (1999), John Deere's Company (1984), and the award-winning Molly Maguires (1964).