COMPANY OVERVIEW 

Gavilon® is a leading commodity management firm, connecting producers and 

consumers of feed, food and fuel. Our expertise in origination, storage and handling, 

transportation and logistics, marketing and distribution, and risk management provides a 

critical link in the global supply chain. 

PRESIDENT & CEO: Greg Heckman 

HEADQUARTERS:	 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. 

LOCATIONS:	 300 facilities and regional 

offices worldwide 

SERVICES:	 Origination 

Storage and Handling 

Transportation and Logistics 

Marketing and Distribution 

Risk Management 

EMPLOYEES: 1,800 

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BUSINESS MIX 

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OPERATING SEGMENTS 

Grain and Ingredients. Gavilon manages the third largest grain merchandising operation and leading feed ingl·edient 

business in the United States. The company originates, stores and distributes grains and oilseeds, as well as feed and food 

ingredients, to food manufacturers, livestock pmducers, poultry processors, soybean processors, ethanol pmducers and numerous 

expol-t markets. The company's physical footprint includes 125 gl·ain facilities with more than 300 million bushels of licensed 

storage capacity. Gavilon distributed approximately 30 million metric tons of grain and 8 million metl-ic tons of ingredients in 2010. 

Fertilizer. Gavilon operates one of the most efficient fertilizer distribution networks in the world, originating and distributing 

nitl-ogen, phosphate and potash products to wholesale distributors. The company partners with offshore suppliers and leverages an 

efficiently managed global logistics system to provide customers competitively priced fertilizer. Gavilon's physical assets include 

more than 70 storage and handling facilities with storage capacity of approximately 1.5 million metric tons worldwide. In 2010, the 

company distributed approximately 7 million metric tons of fel1ilizer. 

Energy. Gavilon operates a physical storage, transportation and logistics network, purchasing crude oil, refined products, natural 

gas, natural gas liquids and renewable fuels from produ ers, and selling and distributing these products to refineries, industrial 

companies, power producers, local distribution companies and other wholesale markets. The company manages 5 million barrels 

of crude oil storage capacity, 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity and 300,000 bart-els of refined products storage 

capacity. In addition, Gavilon markets 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day and 1.6 million gallons of renewable fuels pel- day. 

HISTORY 

Gavilon's history dates back to 1874, when Peavey Company built its first grain facility. In 1982, Peavey was acquil·ed by ConAgl·a 

Foods, Inc. and latel- became part of ConAgra Trade Group. In 2008, a group of investors formed Gavilon and acquired ConAgra 

Trade Group, enabling the newly formed company to focus on gl-owing its commodity business. In 2010, Gavilon acquired the 

DeBruce Companies, significantly expanding the company's agricultural operations. The company is privately held by Ospraie 

Special Oppol1unities Fund, General Atlantic, Soros Fund Management and Gavilon management. 

GAVILON8 11 ConAgra Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68102 I +1 (402) 889-4000 or +1 (888) 428-8723 I www.gavilon.com