Cargill Q3 Profits Plunge
Cargill report that third-quarter earnings in the period ended Feb. 28 fell 68% to $326 million from $1.03 billion in the same period a year ago.
Nobody at Cargill was available to comment on unconfirmed rumours that the reduced profits were directly linked to sharply lower UK canteen takings after one employee (who I can only refer to as Mr M for legal reasons) went on a crash diet in early 2008.
Mr M was reputedly eating "five pallets of biscuits and other confectionery items a day," said a well-known Liverpool haulage contractor.
"Cream puffs, chocolate fingers, nothing was sacred, he was insatiable," he added.
Nobody at Cargill was available to comment on unconfirmed rumours that the reduced profits were directly linked to sharply lower UK canteen takings after one employee (who I can only refer to as Mr M for legal reasons) went on a crash diet in early 2008.
Mr M was reputedly eating "five pallets of biscuits and other confectionery items a day," said a well-known Liverpool haulage contractor.
"Cream puffs, chocolate fingers, nothing was sacred, he was insatiable," he added.