Communicating the Global Business Environment to Board and Membership

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Communicating the Global Business Environment to
Board and Membership

• Robert Bass
• First Vice Chairman
• CHS Board of Directors

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About CHS

• A diversified energy, agronomy, grains and foods
  company
• Largest U.S. cooperative
• Number 198 on 2005 Fortune 500 list
• Members in 26 states
• Business in all 50 states and 60 countries

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CHS Vision and Mission

• Vision
• To be an integrated supply and grain-based foods
  system linking producers with consumers.
• Mission
• To improve company profitability and stakeholder
  value.

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CHS and the Global Economy

• Grain sales to 60 countries worldwide
• China, Japan are leading export customers
• Addressing food safety, identity preservation
  issues
• Non-GMO grain, if requested
• Food grade soybeans
• High starch corn for beer production
• International partnerships Mitsui Co. of
  Japan in United Harvest, Ventura Foods

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CHS and the Global Economy

• Grain sourced from U.S. and Brazil
• Processed soybeans (soy flour) and sunflowers to
  European and Middle Eastern markets
• Crop nutrients sourced from Middle East and U.S.
• Crude oil sourced from Canada, South America and
  U.S.

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Moving grain to customers
Rotterdam
Duluth-Superior
Tacoma
Collins
Kalama/Vancouver
Friona
Mexico City
Myrtle Grove
Brazil Offices
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Communicating to our members
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Key Messages

• We live and operate in a globally driven economy
  where other nations influence our success
• Success today is impossible without strong global
  relationships
• More than ever, business decisions must account
  for long- and short-term global implications

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CHS and the Global Economy

• Annual board/management fact-finding trips
• Support of level-playing field trade policy in
  Congress
• Regular communication to members

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Presentations
Where in the world is Bahrainand why the heck
should I care?
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Annual Report
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Advertising
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News releases
CHS opens Grain Office in Brazil
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When a butterfly flutters its wings in one
part of the world, it can eventually cause a
hurricane in another.
-- Edward Lorenz and The Chaos Theory
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