BNET Industries
Market Cap:$3.7B
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 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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Donnie Smith Promoted to CEO of Tyson Foods
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U.S. stock futures rally following remarks by Fed officials
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Opening View: Fed Speeches Bolster Wall Street Bulls
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Lincoln casts two votes against public option
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Findings of Oklahoma witness decried by Arkansas poultry companies
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Friday firm closes in on 100 lawyers to remain atop list
- 2008-06-09
THE SAME THREE LAW FIRMS continue to dominate Arkansas Business' annual list of the largest firms. Friday Eldredge & Clark LLP of Little Rock is closing in on the century mark with 95 lawyers. It increased by four since the last survey. Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard...
15,000 Arkansas hens test positive for bird flu
- 2008-06-04
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP -- Tyson Foods Inc. has begun killing and burying the carcasses of 15,000 hens from a flock that tested positive for exposure to a strain of the bird flu in northwest Arkansas, state officials said Tuesday. Tyson said preliminary tests on the flock indicated...
Tyson cooked products plant axed
- 2008-03-08
SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS: Meat processor Tyson Foods will close its cooked products plant in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in April with the loss of 400 jobs. The increased popularity of hot, rotisserie chicken in retail delis had reduced demand for its refrigerated oven-roasted chicken, the company said. "We've mode the difficult decision...
Tyson Foods Inc. received the 2008 Corporate Award for Community Service from the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission
- 2008-01-28
Tyson Foods Inc. received the 2008 Corporate Award for Community Service from the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission. Tyson supports numerous nonprofit organizations and projects each year and since 2000 has donated $3 million and more than 49 million pounds of chicken, beef and pork products to more than...
Largest law firms
- 2007-12-17
Largest Law Firms Ranked by licensed attorneys in Arkansas+ Firm Name Address, Phone, Fax, Web Site No....
Appeals court reverses verdict in Tyson case
- 2007-09-07
Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. meat processor, faces further court action after a federal appeals panel reversed a jury verdict that said the company doesn't have to pay workers for time changing clothes. Tyson was sued in 2000 by employees at a poultry-processing plant in New Holland,...
Texas two-step
- 2007-05-28
I RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL LAST week from, an old friend: Why does Scott Ford s $89 million golden parachute bother me so?" Well, it is an awfully big number, and it's hard to argue that anyone "deserves" that much money, even for selling Alltel Corp. (Conversely, does anyone willing...
PUBLIC COMPANY REPORT
- 2006-10-09
Tyson Gives Food To State Food BanksTyson Foods Inc. of Springdale announced on Sept. 28 it will deliver 36,580 -pounds of protein products to the Ozark Food Bank in Springdale as part of a statewide giving event.It was part of a more than 140,000-pound donation Tyson gave to four Arkansas...
'Red' Hudson
- 2006-08-28
Time has helped restore the reputation of James T. "Red" Hudson, the founder of Hudson Foods Inc. who died Aug. 20 at the age of 81. Nine years ago this month the Hudson name was about as low as it could go as the company was hit with the...
Largest law firms
- 2006-06-05
Largest Law Firms Ranked by licensed attorneys in Arkansas Firm Name No. of ...
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