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Tyson Foods Inc.

(TSN) is in the Food Industry

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

Contact Information

2210 W Oaklawn Dr

Springdale, Arkansas 72762-6900

tyson.com

(479) 290-4000

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Poultry Processing: 311615

Company News

Recent Events

Honor and appointments

12/07/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - CEO - View Story
Tyson promotes from within for poultry, beef-and-pork leaders

12/07/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Other - View Story
Tyson Veterans to Fill Executive Positions

12/06/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Other - View Story
Tyson names execs for poultry, pork and beef units

12/06/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - Other - View Story
Tyson Foods Appoints Donnie King Senior Group VP Of Poultry And Prepared Foods - Quick...

12/04/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Vice President - View Story
Tyson Foods TSN Approves $0.04 Per Share Dividend - Annual Yield 1.20%

11/23/09 - Stock Split / Dividend - View Story
Tyson Foods posts 4Q loss on charge, sales edge up

12/01/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Tyson Foods names Donnie Smith CEOSPRINGDALE, Ark. (Nov. 19, 2009)

11/22/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - CEO - View Story
Company veteran Donnie Smith gets top Tyson job

11/20/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - CEO - View Story

News & Analysis

ibp inc. and tyson foods inc. - All News and Analysis

A nine-year-old lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois against IBP Inc., the beef giant bought by Tyson Foods Inc. in 2001, has been resolved

- 2007-01-15

A nine-year-old lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois against IBP Inc., the beef giant bought by Tyson Foods Inc. in 2001, has been resolved. As part of the final agreement, Tyson will fund six environmentally beneficial projects with a combined value of $995,000. The company also will install additional...

Tags: IBP Inc., Illinois, lawsuit, Tyson Foods Inc.
IBP's Robert Peterson dies at 71

- 2004-05-24

DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. -- Robert L. Peterson, former chairman and chief executive of the meat company IBP Inc., died at his home here, according to Tyson Foods Inc., which purchased the company in 2001. Peterson, 71, died after a seven-month battle with cancer. He began his career as one of...

Tags: IBP Inc., Tyson Foods Inc.
Robert L. Peterson, former chairman and CEO of IBP Inc., died at his home in Dakota Dunes, S.D., May 4 after a seven-month battle with cancer

- 2004-05-10

* Robert L. Peterson, former chairman and CEO of IBP Inc., died at his home in Dakota Dunes, S.D., May 4 after a seven-month battle with cancer. Tyson Foods Inc. bought IBP in 2001. Peterson, 71, was one of IBP's original cattle buyers when the company began in 1961. He...

Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, IBP Inc., SOFTWARE, Tyson Foods Inc.
Robert L. Peterson, 71, the former chairman and CEO of IBP Inc

- 2003-11-17

Robert L. Peterson, 71, the former chairman and CEO of IBP Inc., has resigned as a member of the board of Tyson Foods Inc. Peterson cited health reasons and his inability to attend board meetings for his decision to step down.

Tags: board, IBP Inc., Tyson Foods Inc.
Tyson Foods, Springdale, Ark., announces that its wholly owned subsidiary IBP Inc. will become Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., Dakota Dunes, S.D

- 2003-06-01

Tyson Foods, Springdale, Ark., announces that its wholly owned subsidiary IBP Inc. will become Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., Dakota Dunes, S.D. "We believe this change will be a more accurate reflection of the new fresh meats company, which has emerged from the integration of Tyson Foods and IBP," says Dick...

Tags: Branding, FINANCE, IBP Inc., Investment, MARKETING, Tyson Foods Inc.

Tyson Foods said it will drop the Thomas E. Wilson brand name it acquired after taking on meatpacker IBP Inc

- 2002-09-02

Tyson Foods said it will drop the Thomas E. Wilson brand name it acquired after taking on meatpacker IBP Inc. and will eventually replace it with the Tyson name on some beef and pork product lines. Tyson said it will temporarily offer unbranded meat to stores wishing to use their...

Tags: brand, Branding, IBP Inc., MARKETING, Tyson Foods Inc.
Tyson Foods Inc. is seeking a buyer for some of the specialty foods it picked up in its $3.2 billion purchase of giant meatpacker IBP Inc

- 2002-04-15

* Tyson Foods Inc. is seeking a buyer for some of the specialty foods it picked up in its $3.2 billion purchase of giant meatpacker IBP Inc. The business for sale -- Specialty Brands Inc., based in Ontario, Calif., with about $300 million in annual revenue -- sells frozen food...

Tags: food, IBP Inc., Manufacturing, Strategy, Tyson Foods Inc.
Tyson's IBP Aims to Be 'Best Neighbor in Neighborhood'.

- 2002-03-18

By John Taylor, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 18--John H. Tyson introduced himself and his company to Nebraska business, government and education leaders this week, pledging an open-door policy, and outlining a strategy to make Nebraska-made products better-known to consumers....

Tags: Branding, FINANCE, IBP Inc., Investment, MARKETING, Nebraska, Tyson, Tyson Foods Inc.
Tyson dicing Chicago's DFG, acquired with its IBP buyout.(Tyson Foods Inc. to close a DFG New Jersey plant and the its Chicago headquarters)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

- 2002-03-04

Tyson Foods Inc. is slicing up DFG Foods, the obscure Chicago hors d'oeuvres maker that nearly torpedoed Tyson's $4.4-billion buyout of IBP Inc. last year. Five months after taking over the IBP subsidiary, Tyson is closing a DFG plant in New Jerse Tyson...

Tags: IBP Inc., Tyson Foods Inc.
Terrorist Attacks Top Business News in Arkansas: Recession and Tyson Foods' Buyout of IBP Also Dominate News in 2001

- 2001-12-24

WITHOUT AN ARKANSAN in the White House for the first time in eight years, life in Arkansas began to return to normal in 2001. It would have been reasonable to expect the top stories of the year to be home-grown. Instead, the biggest business news in Arkansas was the biggest...

Tags: Acxiom Corp., Arkansas, bank, Dillard, Edgewater Technology Inc., IBP Inc., Nestle S.A., recession, revenue, Sam, Tyson Foods Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc.