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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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...
Appeals court favors Tyson
- 2005-08-22
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta unanimously upheld a ruling that cleared Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., a subsidiary of Tyson Foods Inc., of wrongdoing in a cattle pricing lawsuit. The court affirmed Judge Lyle Strom's decision last year to reverse a jury verdict against Tyson. The...
Tyson Sued for Maintaining Segregated Work Areas: 'Whites Only' Sign and Padlock Placed on Bathroom Door
- 2005-08-11
ASHLAND, Ala., Aug. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A lawsuit filed today alleges that Tyson Foods Inc. is responsible for maintaining a segregated bathroom and break room, reminiscent of the Jim Crow era, in its Ashland, Ala. chicken processing plant. Twelve African- American employees filed a complaint in the United...
Tyson settles lawsuit, closes Bentonville plant
- 2005-07-25
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale said last week that it has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against it by 85 swine-growing operations and will pay them $42.5 million. The settlement requires court approval. In September 2002, the growers filed suit in Pope County Circuit Court for undetermined...
PCRM Drops Tyson Claim
- 2004-12-06
The Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine released a statement Nov. 29 that alleged Tyson Foods Inc. had pulled a series of misleading ads in the face of the a lawsuit PCRM filed on Dec. 18, 2002.PCRM recently dismissed the lawsuit it filed against Springdale-based Tyson Foods."Once Tyson had said they...
Tyson faces lawsuits over pay: food giant says it complies with wage and hour laws
- 2004-08-16
JUST BEFORE H.M. FOX started his 6:15 a.m. shift at the Tyson Foods plant in Albertville, Ala., he would spend several minutes gathering and putting on his protective gear. Those few minutes, which included sanitizing his equipment before and after work and for breaks, Fox said, amounted to about...
Tyson defeats IBP merger lawsuit
- 2004-06-19
WILMINGTON, Del. (Dow Jones/AP) -- A federal judge in Delaware has granted summary judgment to Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat processor, in a securities class-action lawsuit that claimed the company lied about its reasons for attempting to back out of a deal to buy rival IBP Inc. ...
Trial dates set for growers' lawsuit in Tyson exit from hog production
- 2004-06-07
A district court judge has ordered that hearings start in March next year in the matter of a lawsuit brought against Tyson Foods Inc. by 94 former company contract hog producers over the company's decision two years ago to exit live hog production and restructure its swine business. ...
Judge reverses Tyson verdict
- 2004-05-03
A federal judge has reversed a $1.28 billion verdict by an Alabama jury in a cattle-pricing lawsuit against Tyson Foods Inc., the nation's largest meat processor. U.S. Senior District Judge Lyle Strom ruled that the jury's February verdict was contrary to the law and evidence in the case. He...
Tyson Foods a loser in two lawsuits
- 2004-02-23
Tyson Foods Inc. faces a $1.28 billion judgment after 'a Montgomery, Ala., jury last week ruled against the food processing giant in a class-action case that was originally filed in 1996 against IBP Inc., which is now owned by Tyson. On Thursday, the Arkansas Supreme Court sided with pork...
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