Type: Private - Cooperative
On the web: http://www.riceland.com
Employees: 1,900
Employee growth: 0.0%

Riceland Foods is ingrained in the marketing and milling business. The agricultural cooperative markets rice, soybeans, and wheat grown by its 9,000 member-owners, who farm in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas. One of the world's leading rice millers, Riceland sells long-grain, brown, and wild rice; flavored rices; and rice-based meal kits (under the Riceland name, as well as private labels). Its customers include grocery retailers and foodservice, and food manufacturing companies. The co-op also makes edible oil and processes soybeans, bran, and lecithin, and it supplies rice bran and hulls to pet-food makers and to livestock farmers as feed and bedding products.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending July, 2007:
Sales: $947.0M
One year growth: 1.1%

Officers:
Chairman: Thomas C. (Tommy) Hoskyn
President and CEO: K. Daniel (Danny) Kennedy
VP and CFO: Agriculture

Competitors:
American Rice
Mars, Incorporated
Riviana Foods

Riceland Foods

Type	agricultural marketing cooperative
Founded	1921
Headquarters	Stuttgart, Arkansas
Active members	9,000
Products	rice
Employees	1,900
Website	http://www.riceland.com/

Riceland Foods, located in Stuttgart, Arkansas, U.S.A., is an agricultural marketing cooperative and the world's largest miller and marketer of rice.

The company was founded in 1921. It has 1900 employees who store, transport, process, and market rice, soybeans, and wheat produced by its 9,000 members who are farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas.

According to a Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis article^[1], Riceland is responsible for almost one-third of the U.S. rice crop.

References

1. ^ Rice Industry Stands Tall in Stuttgart, October 2005

External links

• Official website

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