The Richest People In America: Marion MacMillan Pictet


#46 Marion MacMillan Pictet

$7.0 billion
Source Mosaic Co (quote: MOS), Agriculture, Inherited

Age 75
Marital Status Divorced, 1 child, 1 divorce

Hometown Hamilton, Bermuda, Bermuda
Education

Heir to giant grain-trading concern Cargill. Company founded by William and Samuel Cargill, sons of Scottish sea captain, as grain storage house in Iowa after Civil War. Will's son-in-law John MacMillan took control 1909. Whitney: last family member to serve as chief executive, stepped down 1995. Family owns 90% of company, employees the rest. World's largest producer of plastics made from renewable resources (corn). Combined fertilizer division with another firm, took public as Mosaic 2004.

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