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About Darling Ingredients
From its filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission
Darling Ingredients is based in Irving, Texas and is incorporated in Delaware. Its shares trade on NYSE under the ticker DAR. The SEC classifies its business as fats & oils. In the fiscal year to 3 January 2026, it reported revenue of $6.14bn and net income of $62.8m. At that date it held total assets of $10.30bn and shareholders' equity of $4.74bn. By business, Fats [Member] brought in 29.0% of revenue, followed by Proteins [Member] at 23.0% and Food Ingredients, Products and Services [Member] at 20.4%. By region, North America accounted for 56.3%, followed by Europe at 29.1% and South America at 9.3%.
Founded by the Swift meat packing interests and the Darling family in 1882, Darling Ingredients Inc. (“Darling”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Company” or “we,” “us” or “our”) was incorporated in Delaware in 1962 under the name “Darling-Delaware Company, Inc.” Darling changed its name from “Darling-Delaware Company, Inc.” to “Darling International Inc.” on December 28, 1993, and from “Darling International Inc.” to “Darling Ingredients Inc.” on May 6, 2014. The address of Darling's principal executive office is 5601 N MacArthur Boulevard, Irving, Texas, 75038, and its telephone number at this address is (972) 717-0300.
We are a global developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a wide range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, animal feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy and fertilizer industries. With operations on five continents, the Company collects and transforms all aspects of animal by-product streams into useable and specialty ingredients, such as collagen, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow grease, fuel feedstocks, agriculture-based biofuels, natural casings and hides. The Company also recovers and converts recycled oils (used cooking oil and animal fats) into valuable fuel and feed ingredients, and collects and processes residual bakery products into feed ingredients.
Quoted from its 10-K, filed 3 Mar 2026. Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗
Company facts
- Sector
- Consumer Staples
- Industry
- Food Products
- Listed since
- 12 Sept 1997
- Employees
- 15,000
- Website
- darlingii.com ↗
- Head office
- 5601 N MACARTHUR BLVD, IRVING, TX, 75038
- Incorporated in
- DE
- Classification
- Fats & Oils
- Filer status
- Large accelerated filer
Leadership
Pay as last reported
- Mr. Randall StueweChairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, since 2003$8.2m
- Mr. Robert DayChief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
- Mr. Patrick McnuttExecutive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer
- Mr. John SterlingExecutive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary$1.7m
- Mr. Jeroen ColpaertExecutive Vice President - Rousselot
- Ms. Sandra DudleyExecutive Vice President - Renewables and Chief Strategy Officer
- Mr. Brandon LairmoreExecutive Vice President - Darling U.S. Rendering Operations
- Mr. Carlos PazExecutive Vice President - Global Risk Management, Ingredients
- Mr. Jan van der VeldenExecutive Vice President - International Rendering and Specialties$2.5m
- Mr. Gary MizeLead Independent Director$360,000
- Mr. Charles AdairIndependent Director$275,000
- Mr. Larry BardenIndependent Director$250,000
Environmental, social and governance
Scores out of 100, from our data supplier
- Overall
- 90
- Environment
- 96
- Social
- 91
- Governance
- 84
- Direct emissions (scope 1)
- 1,949,272 t
- Energy emissions (scope 2)
- 395,442 t
- Value chain emissions (scope 3)
- 13,545,000 t
- Women in the workforce
- 18%
- Carbon reduction policy
- Yes
- Human rights policy
- Yes
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Opportunities
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