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's Fingerman awarded ACF President's Medal
SPRINGDALE, ARK. -- The American Culinary Federation awarded one of its 2008 President's Medallions to Ira Fingerman, national manager for Lady Aster, a Tyson Foods Inc. brand. The award, which the ACF also presented to 24 other individuals, recognizes commitment and service to the standards and excellence. Fingerman, whose chief...
Tyson Foods Inc. has sold several brands of its meat products to Kayem Foods Inc. a meat processor in Chelsea, Mass
Tyson Foods Inc. has sold several brands of its meat products to Kayem Foods Inc. a meat processor in Chelsea, Mass. They include the Jordan's, Deutschmacher, Kirschner, Essem, Tasty Bite and Williams of Vermont brands, all available in New England. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
Branding in the Deli: branding strategies that are developed in accordance with the unique shopper profiles of each retail location are crucial components of successful merchandising initiatives.(BRANDING IN THE DELI: A SPECIAL REPORT)
Enhanced competition for share of the consumer's stomach is making the supermarket deli an increasingly crowded conglomeration of brands. Retailers are marketing a plethora of products to attract shoppers from a wide variety of demographic categories. A successful branding strategy, however, goes well beyond...
Expansive product portfolio earns Tyson Deli, Inc. industry acclaim.(Advertisement)
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,...
Power brokers: our picks for the 11 most influential people in the food industry don't believe in the status quo.(Cover Story)
Influence. Power Clout. There are various definitions and measures of these seemingly intangible assets. When the new president of Ukraine takes your meeting because you knew him in his banker days (1), you've got it. When President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev visit...
Longtime Bangor, Maine, hot-dog competitors unite.
By Deborah Turcotte, Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 26--BANGOR, Maine -- For more than a century, it was a dog-eat-dog world for W.A. Bean and C.H. Rice when it came to frankfurters. The competition was so...
Catalina comes back.(News)(Catalina Marketing Corp.)
Byline: Jack Neff While several players in shopper marketing have struggled of late, Catalina Marketing appears to be making a rebound and has signed an early client for a new in-store advertising vehicle launched earlier this year. Catalina saw sales in...
Tyson Foods
Tyson Foods, Springdale, Ark., unveils a new strategy to communicate the strengths of the Tyson brand to the company's stakeholders. The strategy, a product of 18 months of comprehensive research, recognizes Tyson's position as the premier provider of protein by pointing to the role meat protein plays in the diet...
Bacon: the cure for the common case: for a mature category, the bacon market is hardly (pork) belly up these days.(2004 MEAT AND DELI RETAILER NPR NEW PRODUCTS REVIEW)
Traditional cured and smoked and natural uncured bacon continue to grow in popularity, as processors complement existing products with more varieties and formats, from consumer-friendly resealable packages to fully cooked strips and crumbles to more interesting flavors and seasonings. From a sales perspective,...
Packaging stands up to rigors of frozen food retailing: package graphics and structures reinforce brand messages while meeting consumer demand for tasty, quick-prep meals.
Retailers' shift from coffin-style to upright freezers, combined with consumers' growing demand for convenient meals and snacks, is changing the look and feel of packaging in the frozen food aisle. Marketers of products ranging from ice cream Retailers'...
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