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Working at Ceres

Zippia score 4.8

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Ceres overview

Industry
Biotechnology
Revenue
$15.4M
Headquarters
Employees
192
Founded in
1996
Organization type
Public
CEO
Mindy S. Lubber
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Ceres, Inc. (Ceres) is an agricultural biotechnology company selling seeds to produce renewable biomass feedstocks. The Company's large-scale commercial products are sweet sorghum varieties that can be used as a drop-in feedstock to extend the operating season of Brazilian sugarcane-to-ethanol mills. Its products include sweet sorghum, high biomass sorghum, switchgrass, miscanthus and row crops. Its energy crops can also be used for the production of second-generation biofuels and bio-based chemicals, including cellulosic ethanol, butanol, jet fuel, diesel-like molecules and gasoline-like molecules, from non-food biomass. Baseload utility scale electric power can also be generated from the biomass feedstocks grown from its seeds. Ceres has sold switchgrass and high biomass sorghum seeds in the United States under its Blade Energy Crops (Blade) brand. In January 2010, the Company incorporated a subsidiary, Ceres Sementes do Brasil Ltda.
The staff at Ceres come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 48.3% female and 43.4% ethnic minorities. Ceres employees are slightly more likely to be members of the Democratic Party than the Republican Party, with 64.0% of employees identifying as members of the Democratic Party. Despite their political differences, employees at Ceres seem to be happy. The company has great employee retention with staff members usually staying for 4.3 years.
Ceres is a small health care company based in Thousand Oaks, CA with only 192 employees and an annual revenue of $15.4M.

Ceres's mission statement

Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization leading the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy.

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The team at Ceres

  • The founders of Ceres are Joan Bavaria and Linda Smith.
  • The key people at Ceres are Mindy S. Lubber, Joan Bavaria and Linda Smith.
Key people
Mindy S. Lubber
Joan Bavaria
Linda Smith

Ceres rankings

Ceres is ranked #93 on the Best Health Care companies to work for in America list. Zippia's Best Places to Work lists provide unbiased, data-based evaluations of companies. Rankings are based on government and proprietary data on salaries, company financial health, and employee diversity.

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Ceres salaries

Average Ceres salary
$54,222
yearly
$26.07 hourly
Updated March 14, 2024

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Ceres diversity

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Diversity score
We calculated Ceres’s diversity score by measuring multiple factors, including the ethnic background, gender identity, and language skills of Ceres’s workforce.
Ceres diversity summary. Zippia estimates Ceres's demographics and statistics using a database of 30 million profiles. Zippia verifies estimates with BLS, Census, and current job openings data for accuracy. We calculated Ceres's diversity score by measuring multiple factors, including the ethnic background, gender identity, and language skills of Ceres's workforce.
  • Ceres has 192 employees.
  • 48% of Ceres employees are women, while 52% are men.
  • The most common ethnicity at Ceres is White (57%).
  • 22% of Ceres employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 9% of Ceres employees are Black or African American.
  • The average employee at Ceres makes $54,222 per year.
  • Ceres employees are most likely to be members of the democratic party.
  • Employees at Ceres stay with the company for 4.3 years on average.

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Ceres financial performance

9.7
Performance score

Ceres annual revenue

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    Ceres may also be known as or be related to CERES, Ceres, Ceres Inc and Ceres, Inc.