CHICAGO, March 23, 2016-Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today celebrated the official grand opening of its new, state-of-the-art flavor creation, application and customer service facility in Cranbury, New Jersey.

The 15,700-square-foot site is designed to provide customers with a creative and innovative environment for their product development. The space features a beverage bar dedicated to presentations, tastings and development; a dedicated lab for mint and oral care products; and state-of-the-art facilities, including a pilot plant, to enable the creative development of sweet and savory flavor creations for a wide range of other applications.

The innovation center is supported by a team of flavorists, mint specialists and application technologists. The space is designed to allow customers to be actively involved in the process of developing new products and applications, complete with a comfortable work area so customers can stay connected to their offices throughout the process.

'ADM has long been known in the industry as a reliable ingredient provider, and our recent acquisitions of WILD Flavors, Specialty Commodities, Harvest Innovations and Eatem Foods give us a whole new range of ingredients and flavors that allow us to provide fully integrated applications and solutions for our customers,' said Vince Macciocchi, president of ADM's WILD Flavors & Specialty Ingredients business unit. 'This facility provides a great way for us to work side-by-side with our customers to develop on-trend solutions to meet the unique demands of their consumers.'

Customers interested in setting up meetings at the facility can contact ADM at 609-655-7810.

About ADM
 For more than a century, the people of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) have transformed crops into products that serve the vital needs of a growing world. Today, we're one of the world's largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, with more than 32,300 employees serving customers in more than 160 countries. With a global value chain that includes 428 crop procurement locations, 280 ingredient manufacturing facilities, 39 innovation centers and the world's premier crop transportation network, we connect the harvest to the home, making products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses. Learn more at www.adm.com.

Archer Daniels Midland Company
Media Relations
Jackie Anderson
media@adm.com
312-634-8484

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