Editing Bunge Global (section)

===Formation and listing===

Bunge was founded in 1818 by Johann Peter Gottlieb Bunge in [[Amsterdam]], it was relocated to [[Antwerp]] by [[Edouard Bunge]] in 1859. Edouard's brother; Ernest Bunge, took the Bunge name to [[Argentina]] in 1884, and in 1905 the business extended to [[Brazil]] and later on to the United States.  The company was converted into the [[Bermuda]]-registered [[Bunge International]] in 1994, retaining the [[Bunge y Born]] name only in Argentina. Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders (including the longtime controlling family interests) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international [[agribusiness]] and commodity markets; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US$13 billion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.clarin.com/suplementos/economico/98-05-31/o-00401e.htm|title=Clarín Económico. La retirada final del grupo Bunge & Born|date=March 12, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312080052/http://www.clarin.com/suplementos/economico/98-05-31/o-00401e.htm |archive-date=2009-03-12 }}</ref> Bunge ultimately went [[public company|public]] on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] in 2001, becoming Bunge Limited.

In 1994, the Bermuda-registered Bunge International was created as the main company in which the families had shares. There were around 180 shareholders—the main families were Hirsch, Bunge, Born, Engels, and De La Tour. This replaced the older structure in which individual shareholders had stakes in all the different Bunge companies. Now only in Argentina does the Bunge y Born name still exist.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

[[File:Bunge 10th anniversary NYSE 2011 Shankbone.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The [[New York Stock Exchange Building]] on August 4, 2011, when Bunge celebrated the 10th anniversary of its listing on the [[New York Stock Exchange]]]]
In 2001, under the leadership of Alberto Weisser,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Talati |first=Sonia |date=September 17, 2016 |title=UBS: New Boss, New Mission |work=Barron's |url=http://www.barrons.com/articles/ubs-new-boss-new-mission-1474088725}}</ref> Bunge was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Through their three businesses—[[agribusiness]], [[fertilizer]], and food products—they have established a leading global presence in the farm-to-consumer food chain. Bunge is the world's largest [[oilseed]] processor,<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Plume |first1=Karl |last2=Sen |first2=Anirban |date=13 June 2023 |title=Bunge, Viterra will merge to form $34 billion agri-trading powerhouse |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/bunge-merge-with-viterra-form-18-billion-agriculture-trader-2023-06-13/ |access-date=9 May 2024 |work=Reuters}}</ref> the world's number one seller of bottled [[vegetable oil]] to consumers and the largest producer and supplier of fertilizers to farmers in [[South America]].{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}