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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Tyson Foods Inc
- 2008-06-09
Tyson Foods Inc. killed and buried 15,000 breeder hens found to be exposed to a low pathogenic strain of avian influenza. Preliminary tests on the flock indicated the presence of the avian influenza antibodies but found no indications of birds with the avian influenza virus. The situation does not posses...
Tyson Foods Inc
- 2008-05-12
J. Alberto Gonzalez-Pita, executive vice president and general counsel for Tyson Foods Inc., left the poultry giant on May 2. The resignation was made public through a separation agreement, which was filed as an exhibit to Tyson's 10-Q quarterly SEC report. In 2007, he earned a base salary of $503,827...
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- 2007-12-17
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Somalis arrive in Emporia with tuberculosis
- 2007-11-25
By Mike Shields KHI NEWS SERVICE EMPORIA - When hundreds of Somali refugees began showing up to work at the meatpacking plant, nurses Lori Torres and Renee Hively were among the first to get to know the exotic, new arrivals. "We got notified a...
Tyson enters renewable fuel arena
- 2007-08-01
Tyson Foods, Inc. (Springdale, Arkansas, USA) and Syntroleum Corporation (Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA), a synthetic fuels technology company, announced at the end of June the formation of Dynamic Fuels LLC, which will produce synthetic fuels targeting the renewable diesel, jet, and military fuel markets.The 50:50 venture intends to construct and operate...
Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition Applauds Tyson for Producing Fresh Chickens Without Antibiotics
- 2007-06-19
To: HEALTH EDITORSContact: Dan Klotz, +1-917-438-4613, cell: +1-347-307-2866, dklotz@mrssny.com, for Keep Antibiotics Working WASHINGTON, June 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Medical experts and heath advocates hailed today's announcement by Tyson Foods that in response to consumer demand its fresh chickens would be raised without antibiotics as another step in preserving the effectiveness...
Public companies' executive compensation
- 2007-05-14
Public Companies' Executive Compensation Ranked by total compensation in 2006 ...
Shareholder options actions proceed against directors.(Delaware)
- 2007-05-01
The intentional backdating or "spring-loading" of stock options by corporate directors, if proven, would be a breach of the good-faith element of the duty of loyalty sufficient to rebut the business judgment rule, the Delaware Court of Chancery has held in two shareholder derivative lawsuits. (Ryan...
Tyson scraps exec bonuses
- 2006-12-27
SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- Because Tyson Foods Inc. failed to achieve earnings targets in its most recently completed fiscal year, senior executives will miss out on bonuses that totaled more than $5 million last year, the company said Tuesday. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,...
CFO says challenging times will benefit Tyson
- 2006-09-25
Challenging times will ultimately benefit Tyson Foods Inc. by prompting the company to re-examine every aspect of its business, said Wade Miquelon, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Miquelon spoke to investors last week at Bank of America's annual investment conference in San Francisco. Tyson posted financial...
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