The caper measure is a symbol of grain trading and shipping.
Bunge Limited: global soybean exporter and is also involved in food processing, grain trading, and fertilizer.
The corn exchange was built in the market place and within a short time Hitchin established itself as a major centre for grain trading.
Although sugar was the source of the vast Hatvany fortune, the family was also involved in flour mills and grain trading, banking, among other activities.
New chairman Robert Corbett says most of the losses seem to stem from incompetent grain trading.
As well as being an international soybean exporter, it is also involved in food processing, grain trading, and fertilizer.
Before becoming chief executive, Mr. Kelm was a major supporter of Cargill's entry into international grain trading.
By the time of the famine, monopolies in grain trading had been established by the company and its agents.
It had a Lutheran and a Catholic church, a Progymnasium, a court, a steam mill with grain trading, and (as of 1885) 2,678 inhabitants.
Secondly was its success in grain trading since the Middle Ages.