BNET Industries
Market Cap:$3.8B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$26.8B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
Founded in 1935, Tyson Foods, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, Company, we, us or our) are the worlds largest meat protein company and the second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500 with one of the most recognized brand names in the food industry. We produce, distribute and market chicken, beef, pork, prepared foods and related allied products. Our operations are conducted in four segments: Chicken, Beef, Pork and Prepared Foods. Some of the key factors influencing our business are customer demand for our products; the ability to maintain and grow relationships with customers and introduce new and innovative products to the marketplace; accessibility of international markets; market prices for our products; the cost of live cattle and hogs, raw materials and grain; and operating efficiencies of our facilities. We operate a fully vertically integrated poultry production process. Our integrated operations consist of breeding stock, contract growers, feed production, processing, further-processing, transporting and marketing chicken and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients. Through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc. (Cobb), we are the largest poultry breeding stock supplier in the world, supplying Tyson as well as a number of other poultry production companies. ...
Number of Employees 107,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Poultry Processing: 311615
Recent Events
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Tyson Foods Appoints Donnie King Senior Group VP Of Poultry And Prepared Foods - Quick...
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Tyson Names New Leaders for Key Operating Units
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Tyson Foods TSN Approves $0.04 Per Share Dividend - Annual Yield 1.20%
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Tyson Foods posts 4Q loss on beef charge
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Tyson Foods posts 4Q loss on charge, sales edge up
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Tyson Foods names Donnie Smith CEOSPRINGDALE, Ark. (Nov. 19, 2009)
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Company veteran Donnie Smith gets top Tyson job
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Tyson Foods posts loss on charge in beef business
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Tyson Foods' Beef, Pork and Prepared Foods Segments Generating Returns At or Above Expected Levels
News & Analysis
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Tyson settles suit by rivals over antibiotics advertising
- 2008-06-30
Tyson Foods Inc. has settled a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by two of its competitors who allege the Springdale-based poultry producer used deceptive marketing about its antibiotics use in chickens. Perdue Farms, based in Salisbury, Md., and Sanderson Farms of Mississippi filed suit against Tyson in U.S. District Court in...
Tyson Stops Claiming Chicken is Free of Antibiotics
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- 2008-06-02
Food companies can’t be blamed for jumping on the organic bandwagon. Companies can, however, be blamed for claiming that their products are organic or are free of antibiotics when they aren't. In late April, a federal appeals court ruled that Tyson Foods must cease advertising its chicken...
Tyson Foods Inc. appeals ruling in advertising suit
- 2008-04-29
Tyson Foods Inc., which last week was ordered by a federal judge to take down advertising claiming its chickens are "raised without antibiotics," has noted its appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett ordered the plaintiffs in the Lanham Act...
Judge halts Tyson's 'antibiotic-free' ads
- 2008-04-23
BALTIMORE -- A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring Tyson Foods from advertising that its poultry products don't contain antibiotics thought to lead to drug resistance in humans. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett was a victory for rivals Perdue Farms and Sanderson Farms...
Federal judge won't stop fight over chicken ads
- 2008-04-11
Salisbury-based Perdue Farms Inc. can proceed with its false- advertising suit against competitor Tyson Farms Inc., a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett denied Tyson Foods Inc.'s motion to dismiss the suit, and promised to rule on Perdue's motion for a preliminary injunction within...
Tyson sweeps ad fed awards
- 2008-03-17
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale and Sells/Clark's Fayetteville office won the most 2007 awards from the Northwest Arkansas Advertising Federation. The NWAAF sponsored the Addy awards on Feb. 23 in Fayetteville. Tyson Foods won six gold and six silver awards, and Sells/Clark won three gold and six silver...
Advertisers avoiding trouble: a timeline.(News)(Lowe's Home Improvement and Tyson Foods withheld theri advertisements on ABC's Desperate Housewives')(Boston Beer Chairman apologizes for encouraging sex at public places through the show 'Opie and Anthony S
- 2007-04-16
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A Tyson Foods Inc. marketing campaign has earned a multicultural advertising award from the American Advertising Federation
- 2006-10-02
A Tyson Foods Inc. marketing campaign has earned a multicultural advertising award from the American Advertising Federation. Three "Powered by Tyson" television commercials developed by Tyson's African-American marketing agency, E. Morris Communications, won the Mosaic Award for Multicultural Ad Campaign. The 30-second commercials use humor and insight to show how...
Growth from within: E. Morris Communications Inc. gained market share in a less than stellar environment by turning to existing clients
- 2005-06-01
EUGENE MORRIS' FIRM WAS nearinG death's door. Billings at Chicago-based E. Morris Communications Inc. had plummeted 41.6% to $18.7 million in 2002, causing the company to fall off the BE ADVERTISING AGENCIES list. Making matters worse, automaker GM retired its Oldsmobile division, which represented 40% of the firm's business. As...
Expansive product portfolio earns Tyson Deli, Inc. industry acclaim.(Advertisement)
- 2005-05-01
Fortune magazine didn't dub them "America's Most Admired,. Company in Food Production" for nothing. Tyson Foods, Inc. has long been synonymous with quality--a tradition of excellence that extends throughout its different product divisions. As the recognized market leader in the deli markets it serves,...
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