Darling Ingredients Inc.

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. OVERVIEW 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.