He built his Dangote Group into a conglomerate with interests in sugar, flour milling, cement and salt processing.

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He started trading commodities more than 30 years ago after receiving a business loan from his uncle, and eventually built the Dangote Group, which in addition to cement owns sugar refineries, flour milling and salt processing facilities.

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He delved into full production of these items in the early 2000s and went on to build the Dangote Group, West Africa's largest publicly-listed conglomerate, which now owns sugar refineries, salt processing facilities and Dangote Cement, the continent's largest cement producer.

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Cargill, which is privately owned, has been doing business since 1986 in Venezuela, where its operations include oilseed processing, grain and oilseeds trading, animal feed, salt, and financial and risk management.

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