2000-Present

2000	Construction of five new crushing plants in China occurs.

2001	e-ADM website is launched.

	ADM acquires Doysan Yag Sanayii, a Turkish vegetable oil producer with crushing plant, refinery, and packaging operations.

	ADM acquires Sociedad Aceitera del Oriente, S.A. (SAO), a Bolivian vegetable oil producer with crushing plant, refinery, packaging operations, and grain elevators.

	ADM announces a new corporate logo, tagline and advertising campaign designed to underscore the Company’s deep commitment to nature and global agriculture.

	ADM pays its 300th cash dividend and 280th consecutive quarterly payment, a record of seventy years of uninterrupted stock dividends.

	John D. McNamara steps down as president and Paul B. Mulhollem is elected president.

	ADM creates a technology council with P&G Chemicals aimed at developing innovative natural- based products.

	ADM makes history when it becomes the first U.S. company to sign a contract with Cuba since the embargo began nearly forty years ago.

2002	ADM completes its acquisition of Minnesota Corn Processors, LLC (MCP). With the acquisition, ADM adds corn wet-milling plants located in Marshall, Minnesota, and Columbus, Nebraska.

	Net earnings are $511,093,000 on net sales and other operating income of $23,453,561,000. Shareholders’ equity increases to $6,754,821,000 equal to $10.39 per common share. Total assets increase to $15,416,273,000.

	The number of ADM employees grows to over 24,000.

2003	ADM increases presence in South America by adding five grain origination and storage silos in Brazil.

	ADM introduces the NovaLipid™ 0 grams trans per serving oils and shortenings.

2005	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency honors ADM with a Presidential Green Chemistry Award for a process known as enzymatic interesterification, which resulted in the NovaLipid™ 0 grams trans per serving oils and shortenings.

	ADM announces plans to expand its ethanol production capacity with the addition of two new corn dry mills located adjacent to existing ADM corn wet mills in Columbus, Neb., and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

	ADM launches the Socially & Environmentally Responsible Agriculture Practices (SERAP) Program, which provides financial incentives for West African cocoa cooperatives to implement sustainable practices in areas such as safe farming, responsible labor management and forest protection. More than 6,000 farmers participate in the program in its inaugural year.

2006	ADM and Cambridge, Mass.-based Metabolix, announce plans to build, in Clinton, Iowa, the first commercial plant dedicated to the production of a new generation of high-performance, renewable, sustainable plastics.

	ADM acquires the technical and intellectual property assets of Groupe Lysac, Inc., in a move that enhances the company’s ability to create biodegradable products from natural and renewable resources. Groupe Lysac’s absorbent polymers -- made primarily from starch, rather than petroleum products -- can be used in new generations of industrial applications and consumer products, including disposable diapers.

	Patricia A. Woertz is named CEO and President of ADM.

2007	Patricia A. Woertz is named Chairman of ADM’s Board of Directors. She remains the company’s president and CEO.

	ADM and Purdue University are selected to receive U.S. Department of Energy funding for research aimed at developing and commercializing a fermentation process that uses highly efficient yeast to convert cellulosic materials into ethanol.

	ADM announces plans to build a state-of-the-art cocoa processing facility in Kumasi, Ghana.

	ADM announces partnership with ConocoPhillips to address technical challenges involved in processing biomass -- such as grasses, wood and crop residues – into biocrude, a renewable crude oil that can be processed into gasoline at existing refineries.

	ADM opens its first wholly owned U.S. biodiesel production facility in Velva, N.D.

	ADM receives GE Global Ecomagination Award for saving 1.5 billion gallons of water per year through the installation of wastewater-treatment systems at the company’s Decatur, Ill., corn-processing plant.

2008	ADM partners with the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium and the Illinois State Geological Survey on a carbon-sequestration project to store 1 million tons of carbon dioxide in the ground rather than releasing it into the atmosphere.

	ADM joins forces with Monsanto Company and Deere & Company to harvest, store and transport corn stover -- stalks, cobs and leaves of corn plants -- as a cellulosic feedstock for biofuel production, as biomass to generate steam and electricity, and as an ingredient in animal feed.

	A new ADM cocoa plant in Hazleton, Pa., begins warehouse operations. The entire facility is slated to be operational in the third quarter of 2009.

	ADM forms the joint venture Stratas Foods, LLC, to manufacture, market and distribute packaged oil products in the U.S. and Canada.

	ADM and Grupo Cabrera announce a joint venture to produce ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil.

2009	ADM expands its chocolate business through the acquisition of Schokinag-Schokolade-Industrie Herrmann GmbH & Co. KG, one of Europe’s leading producers of chocolate and cocoa powder, taking an important step in the expansion of its global cocoa and chocolate business.

	ADM marks a milestone in its carbon capture and sequestration project with the completion of an approximately 8,000-foot deep injection well in Decatur, Illinois. It is one of the nation’s first large-scale projects intended to confirm that carbon dioxide emissions can be stored permanently in deep underground rock formations.

	Fortune names ADM the “Most Admired” company in the food production industry.

	ADM launches ADM Cares, a social investment program that targets up to one percent of pretax earnings to initiatives that advance societal improvements in areas related to the Company’s business.

	ADM accepts the Foreign Policy Association’s Corporate Social Responsibility Award for demonstrating exceptional corporate citizenship and playing a meaningful role in furthering economic, social and environmental progress in the communities it serves.

	ADM completes construction of its co-generation facility in Clinton, Iowa.

	ADM begins production at its first sugarcane ethanol plant, located in Brazil.

	ADM expands its European oilseeds processing capabilities with the acquisition of an oilseed crushing, refining and biodiesel facility in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

	ADM begins operations at its cocoa processing facility in Kumasi, Ghana.

	ADM acquires five oceangoing vessels, totaling 250,000 metric tons of cargo capacity, enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of its transportation network.

	ADM begins operations at its ethanol facility in Columbus, Nebraska.

	Patricia Woertz and other ADM executives commemorate the 85th anniversary of the Company’s listing on the New York Stock Exchange by ringing the closing bell at the NYSE.

	The U.S. Department of Energy awards ADM a $24.8-million grant to develop and construct a facility that will convert biomass into renewable fuel.