
W&R Barnett is the holding company of a diversified group of international commodity trading, agribusiness and industrial companies.
Founded in 1896, the group has grown from its origins as a grain merchant and expanded its operations to include a wide variety of enterprises including dry bulk commodities, derivatives, molasses, feed mills, corrugated packaging, furniture manufacture and storage.
W&R Barnett is a fourth generation family business committed to growing and investing in successful operating businesses and their employees.
Many of our businesses are jointly owned with Origin Enterprises PLC, with whom we have had a long and successful business partnership.
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W&R Barnett provide support to Farm Africa. Farm Africa reduces poverty in rural eastern Africa byhelping farmers grow more, sell more and sell for more, while protecting the environment. The challenges of poverty, food insecurity and biodiversity loss are being intensified by climate change and global economic instability. The key to addressing each ofthese challenges lies in sustainable and effective agriculture- working with smallholder farmers and small businesses to improve the quality, quantity and value of their produce, so that they can support their families with more resilient livelihoods as wellas providing support for farmers to gain access to finance and markets, so that they can strengthen their businesses and revitalise communities by expanding employment. For more information: Click Here |