Investing in our communities

Horizon Milling has a long-standing commitment to the people and communities where we operate. In each of our locations, we strive to be a good corporate citizen, helping to build strong partnerships with local organizations in ways that contribute to the vitality of communities where we live and work.

Contributing to the safety of our workers

We embrace safety as a way of doing business.

• Our safety index surpasses the flour milling industry average by 50 percent.
• The industry association, IAOM, recognized 20 plants for outstanding safety performance in 2005.
• We continually strive to improve our safety index by implementing new safety behavior initiatives, coupled with excellent auditing and compliance activities.
• Two of our plants have celebrated more than 1 million hours with no lost-time accidents, and our Stockton plant has not had a lost-time accident since it began operation in 1991.

Contributing to the health of our environment

Our mills work locally with community groups to promote a variety of environmental programs.

• Our Saginaw, Texas, staff has partnered with the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw School district for nine years to teach students about water quality and conservation. The program has more than 8000 children so far.
• A "Water Matters" Mini Grant from Horizon Milling and Cargill provided funding for staff from the Science Museum of Minnesota to lead a program about water for students at Bluff View Elementary School in Lake City, Minnesota.
• Horizon Milling, Lake City, Minnesota, recently provided grant money to fund a local environmental learning program.

Committed to strengthening our neighborhoods

Horizon Milling continues to support local schools and organizations through contributions and volunteer efforts including the United Way, Junior Achievement, Habitat for Humanity, local fire/rescue groups, museums, parks and more:

• All Horizon Milling locations have written community involvement plans and budgets dedicated to supporting local community initiatives.
• Following the devastation wrecked by Hurricane Katrina, Horizon Milling donated 50,000 pounds of flour to its customer Domino's Pizza to assist in preparing 60,000 pizzas for relief workers, evacuees and local residents along the U.S. Gulf Coast. This in-kind donation was in addition to the contributions made by Horizon Milling employees to the American Red Cross, which were matched by Cargill.
• Some 39% of Horizon Milling employees are engaged in community involvement activities, and many have earned recognition awards for their volunteerism.
• Through employee pledges and corporate matching, Horizon Milling contributed nearly $176,000 to local United Way programs in 18 locations in 2005.
• Our Port Allen, Louisiana plant helped develop the Foundation for Academic Excellence in West Baton Rouge to strengthen area elementary schools.
• Employees in Minneapolis and Rush City, Minnesota recently held food drives that raised more than 2300 lb in donations to local food shelves.
• Horizon Milling, Lake City, Minnesota, partnered with the local American Legion and a local serviceman in based in Iraq to provide school supplies to Iraqi children.
• Lake City also provided recent grants to a teen center and a community medical center.
• The Fairmount, North Dakota facility provided funds for high school's robotics team to participate in a robot-building competition. The team built a robot capable of moving, picking up and stacking objects.
• Minneapolis and Lake City, Minnesota employees sponsored and chaperoned a sixth-grade field trip to the Mill City Museum, where students learned about the history and current operation of flour milling.

Contributing to the economic vitality of our communities

Horizon Milling employs approximately 930 people, providing nearly $43 million in wages each year.