Name
James Cargill, II.
James Cargill, II.
Birchwood, Wisconsin
United States
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Cargill
$4,000,000,000
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#504 Billionaires 2019
#153 Forbes 400 2018
James Cargill is one of 14 billionaire heirs to Cargill, America's largest private company.His great-grandfather, W.W. Cargill, founded the business as a single grain warehouse on the end of an Iowa railroad line in 1865.The family still owns roughly 90% of Cargill, which did $115 billion in 2018 sales across food, agriculture, financial and industrial divisions.The Cargill-MacMillan family collects an estimated 18% of net profits as dividends every year.
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