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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Honor and appointments
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Tyson promotes from within for poultry, beef-and-pork leaders
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Tyson Veterans to Fill Executive Positions
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Tyson names execs for poultry, pork and beef units
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Tyson Foods Appoints Donnie King Senior Group VP Of Poultry And Prepared Foods - Quick...
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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 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
News & Analysis
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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...
Thanksgiving hero gets some thanks
- 2008-04-16
Feeding the hungry is a big challenge, but the desire to help the community came naturally for Dan McClosky, and it all started with turkeys. It was Thanksgiving 1998, and McClosky read a newspaper article about turkey shortages. He asked a friend to match him dollar for...
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- 2007-12-17
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Acxiom stockholders suffer; Murphy family rises to No. 2
- 2007-11-05
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] THE ANNUAL LIST OF TOP stockholders is a reminder that Arkansas companies have brought impressive wealth to many. But the past year was kinder to some than others. Take, for instance, the Acxiom Corp. stockholders who saw the value of their stock holdings sink as the...
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale is joining two nonprofits, League of United Latin American Citizens and America's Second Harvest food banks, to study the extent and causes of hunger among Latinos
- 2007-07-16
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale is joining two nonprofits, League of United Latin American Citizens and America's Second Harvest food banks, to study the extent and causes of hunger among Latinos. The partnership will conduct research to see whether Latinos are using food bank resources, whether they are using social...
Alltel Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc. will be added to the U.S. high volatility credit derivative index on March 20, according to CDS IndexCo, a consortium of 16 banks that make markets in the index
- 2007-03-19
Alltel Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc. will be added to the U.S. high volatility credit derivative index on March 20, according to CDS IndexCo, a consortium of 16 banks that make markets in the index. The index comes out every six months with several different constituents, based on criteria including...
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...
Tyson Foods makes donation to Oklahoma food banks
- 2006-09-07
Two Oklahoma food banks have received donations from Tyson Foods Inc.
40 on the Move
- 2006-08-28
Our 10th class of Forty Under 40 honorees is on the move - in more ways than one.Besides climbing ladders and bettering their businesses, some of them have revved up more than the economic engine.Mel Collier, for instance, drag races Ford Mustangs. Greg Langham is a pilot. Rod Wallis spends...
WHISPERS
- 2006-07-17
Auction BlockedCollectors of classic cars and auto dealers will like this one.J&J Investments, a group based out of Elm Springs, has teamed up with Kruse International of Auburn, Ind. The two companies purchased 120 acres of land near Highfill and have a deal on another 60 acres set to close...
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