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Global Foods is an international group of companies that focuses on sustainable entrepreneurship, primarily in the fields of sugar and renewable energy.

Since its start in 1996, the group has been building on its principals’ experience in commodity trade and finance (8 years at MeesPierson and ING Bank) and private investments, in order to develop business plans, create companies and manage them. For years, it only ran sugar processing and distribution businesses; sourcing sugar around the world, producing sugar-containing products, and selling these to the food-processing industry in the EU.

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Louis Dreyfus to Spend 800 Million Reais on Santelisa

27-10-2009

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Louis Dreyfus Commodities will inject 800 million reais ($463 million) in a company resulting from the merger of LDC Bioenergia and Santelisa Vale SA. The merged entity will be called LDC-SEV and may sell shares for the first time in the next three to five years, Chief Executive Officer Bruno Melcher told reporters today in Sao Paulo. The company will have a market value of about 8 billion reais ($4.6 billion), according to Melcher.

LDC will have about 60 percent of the new combined entity, which will be the world’s second largest producer of fuel made from sugar cane. LDC may also sell its 25 percent stake in the Tropical biofuel partnership it owns with BP Plc., Melcher said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Lucia Kassai at lkassai@bloomberg.net.

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