Cairo-Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) is taking a stake in The Gavilon Group LLC, formerly ConAgra Trade Group. OCI participated with a total consideration of US$340 million for an effective 20 percent stake. Gavilon provides physical distribution, merchandising, and trading across basic inputs and outputs, including fertilizer products, grains, feed ingredients, and energy products. Gavilon also provides comprehensive logistical and risk-management services to customers in the agriculture and energy markets. Gavilon’s fertilizer trade operation is the largest independent importer of fertilizer into the U.S., with 7.1 million tons of fertilizer products sold last year. Other activities of the group include commodity infrastructure for agricultural activities. (For more details, see www.gavilon.com.)
Transparency Across the Fertilizer Value-Chain