Louis Dreyfus and Cargill form a joint venture to operate grain export facilities in the Pacific Northwest.

Robert Louis-Dreyfus becomes chairman of Louis Dreyfus SAS, and restructures Louis Dreyfus Commodities by platform and region.

A soybean processing plant and port facility with a daily crushing capacity of 8,000 tons opens in Timbúes, Argentina.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities opens the world’s largest integrated soybean-based biodiesel plant in Claypool, Indiana.

LDS Investment Group is established to develop new properties and make real estate investments with an emphasis on purchasing, upgrading and repositioning existing office buildings in major North American markets.

The Group's shipping business (Louis Dreyfus Armateurs) is sold to Philippe-Louis Dreyfus.

Highbridge Capital Management and the Louis Dreyfus Group form a joint venture, Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy LLC. The company purchased the remaining 50 percent equity interest in the Mont Belvieu Storage Partners joint venture from TEPPCO.

The Group's telecommunication business (Neuf Cegetel) is sold.

The former United States commercial real estate arm of global conglomerate Louis Dreyfus Group, the Louis Dreyfus Property Group, transitioned to management ownership and was renamed Property Group Partners.