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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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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Change in consumer taste plucks poultry plant's jobs.(Western)
- 2008-04-01
Too many people want to pick up hot chicks. After about 20 years selling refrigerated roasted chicken, Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson Foods Inc. will close its Wilkesboro roasting plant, idling 410 workers. Blame consumers' need for speed, spokesman Ga Too many people want to pick up hot...
Loss of 1,500 jobs affects entire town
- 2008-02-03
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL EMPORIA - Fear and uncertainty are common emotions these days in Emporia. Since Tyson Foods announced Jan. 25 that it was eliminating 1,500 jobs with the closure of its local slaughter operations, company employees have been trying to figure...
Loss of 1,500 jobs affects entire town
- 2008-02-03
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL EMPORIA - Fear and uncertainty are common emotions these days in Emporia. Since Tyson Foods announced Jan. 25 that it was eliminating 1,500 jobs with the closure of its local slaughter operations, company employees have been trying to figure...
New KHP leader named
- 2008-02-02
By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Gov. Kathleen Sebelius appointed a new superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol on Friday in preparation for Col. William Seck's retirement. The governor selected Lt. Col. Terry Maple, the patrol's assistant superintendent since 1999 and a 30-year veteran of...
Emporia to have fair for laid-off workers
- 2008-02-02
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Emporia has organized a job fair to help people who are losing their jobs in the Tyson Foods' layoff in Emporia. The job fair will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 16 at Flint Hills Technical College, 3301 W. 18th...
Emporia to have fair for laid-off workers
- 2008-02-02
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Emporia has organized a job fair to help people who are losing their jobs in the Tyson Foods' layoff in Emporia. The job fair will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 16 at Flint Hills Technical College, 3301 W. 18th...
Emporia plans for layoffs
- 2008-01-30
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL EMPORIA - Residents are beginning to address the problems and challenges associated with Tyson Foods' decision to lay off 1,500 of its 2,400 employees. "In some ways this is like the Greensburg tornado, except we see the tornado coming,"...
Emporia plans for layoffs
- 2008-01-30
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL EMPORIA - Residents are beginning to address the problems and challenges associated with Tyson Foods' decision to lay off 1,500 of its 2,400 employees. "In some ways this is like the Greensburg tornado, except we see the tornado coming,"...
1,500 laid off in Emporia
- 2008-01-26
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Tyson Foods plans to cut 1,500 jobs in Emporia when it closes its slaughter operations within a few weeks, the company announced Friday. "Obviously it is going to be devastating because that is a huge number of jobs," said...
1,500 laid off in Emporia
- 2008-01-26
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Tyson Foods plans to cut 1,500 jobs in Emporia when it closes its slaughter operations within a few weeks, the company announced Friday. "Obviously it is going to be devastating because that is a huge number of jobs," said...
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