Customers

Below are a few of SignalDemand's customers

ConAgra Mills® , a grain industry leader, supports industry growth by providing innovative ingredients and solutions that drive demand for grain-based foods.

"We recognized an opportunity to improve alignment with the large number of variables present in the flour milling industry. ConAgra Mills will customize and engage SignalDemand's systems to coordinate our raw material inputs, production capacity and demand forecast to improve sales execution with our customers" said Paul Maass, president of ConAgra Mills.

Cargill is an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. With 158,000 employees in 66 countries, the company is committed to using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with customers to help them succeed.

"Using the SignalDemand solution and its detailed analysis of the many market inputs and influences, we are better able to provide our customers with more accurate prices for the available supplies of beef products." - Bill Rupp, Former President, Cargill Meat Solutions

Fonterra Fonterra, a farmer-owned New Zealand co-operative, is the largest processor of milk in the world, producing more than two million tonnes of dairy ingredients, value added dairy ingredients, specialty ingredients and consumer products every year. Operating in more than 100 markets around the world, Fonterra is a global leader in dairy nutrition and the preferred supplier of dairy ingredients to many of the world’s leading food companies. Fonterra is also a market leader with it’ own consumer dairy brands in Australia/New Zealand, Asia/Africa, Middle East and Latin America.

"We believe volatility is here to stay and that we must be able to react quickly to changes in market conditions, in a coordinated manner that spans both the supply and demand sides of our organization. SignalDemand will enable us to institutionalize and systematize this market-driven optimization process, allowing Fonterra to provide the business with the best insights and information available." - Gerard Gunnell, General Manager, Optimisation, Fonterra

Farmland Foods , founded in 1959, is a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc., of Smithfield, Va. Farmland is headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., and has about 6,300 employees at its operations in Denison and Carroll, Iowa; Crete, Neb.; Monmouth, Ill.; Wichita, Kan.; New Riegel, Ohio; Salt Lake City, Utah.; and Springfield, Mass. Farmland processes fresh and frozen pork products for national retail and foodservice markets, with a strong concentration in the Midwest. Farmland serves an international commodity, foodservice and retail market in Asia, Central America and Eastern Europe.

Hormel Foods Corporation , based in Austin, Minn., is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer-branded food and meat products, many of which are among the best known and trusted in the food industry.

"We selected SignalDemand because of their unique platform and ability to improve pricing decisions while considering business constraints, such as supply and related costs." - Gary Ray, Former President of Protein Business Units, Hormel Foods

JBS USA is a leading processor of beef and pork in the United States and the number one processor of beef in Australia. The Company processes, prepares, packages and delivers fresh, processed and value-added beef and pork products for sale to customers in over 60 countries on six continents.

"Our goal is to earn the trust of our customers in the US beef industry and one important step in that direction is to provide our team with best-in-class tools like EnterpriseOptimizer. The insight provided by SignalDemand’s forward looking decision support tools will enable us to better partner with our customers, identifying and delivering differentiated offers that will ultimately provide more value to the consumer. " - Bill Rupp, President, JBS USA Beef Division