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6 unusual facts about Bunge y Born


Amancio Williams

He later employed the concept for the 1966 Bunge y Born exhibit at the La Rural Exposition grounds and in 1968 for the German Embassy, both in Buenos Aires, as well as for a monument to the reconstruction of Berlin.

Bunge Limited

Bunge Limited (formerly Bunge International, and prior to that Bunge y Born) is a Bermudan food processing corporation with its headquarters in White Plains, NY.

Bunge y Born was founded in 1818 by Johann Peter Gotlieb Bunge in Amsterdam, it was relocated to Antwerp by Edouard Bounge in 1859.

Bunge y Born

They had one of the largest wheat mills in the country built on a Puerto Madero lot in 1902, and with it, established Molinos Río de la Plata (later a leader in the local retail foods market).

The company superseded the Bunge Company founded in Amsterdam by Johann Bunge, in 1818.

Ulises Dumont

Born in 1937 in Buenos Aires, Dumont first worked in Bunge y Born, Argentina's largest grain wholesaler and one of the principal grain conglomerates in the World.



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