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 Puts Entire Company Up as Collateral
BNET
- 2008-12-17
One analyst says that Tyson Foods' move to put the whole company up as collateral under new agreements with its creditors is not an unusual one for a company going through a down cycle. But this isn't just any down cycle. The poultry industry is hurting bad,...
Week in Review - Legal Edition
- 2008-06-30
Md. prosecutors see little impact from gun ruling Maryland's gun-control laws remain strong and intact despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that law-abiding citizens have a constitutional right to keep handguns in their home, state prosecutors said Thursday. "The decision has no direct bearing on Maryland gun laws,"...
Salisbury-based Perdue Farms settles, but consumer suit keeps heat
- 2008-06-24
The same day Tyson Foods Inc. disposed of one federal lawsuit concerning an ill-starred marketing campaign, it was hit with another. On Friday, the Arkansas-based meat-processing giant announced the settlement of the false advertising lawsuit brought by Salisbury- based Perdue Farms and another poultry farm. Perdue took issue...
Friday firm closes in on 100 lawyers to remain atop list
- 2008-06-09
THE SAME THREE LAW FIRMS continue to dominate Arkansas Business' annual list of the largest firms. Friday Eldredge & Clark LLP of Little Rock is closing in on the century mark with 95 lawyers. It increased by four since the last survey. Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard...
Largest law firms
- 2007-12-17
Largest Law Firms Ranked by licensed attorneys in Arkansas+ Firm Name Address, Phone, Fax, Web Site No....
Tyson Foods Inc
- 2006-11-13
Tyson Foods Inc. has agreed to pay an $871,000 settlement to 13 black workers who claimed that other employees had a placed a "Whites Only" sign outside a restroom at work. The discrimination lawsuit was filed in August 2005 regarding a poultry plant in Ashland, Ala.
PUBLIC COMPANY REPORT
- 2006-08-28
Wal-Mart's Profit Decreases On German Stores SaleWal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville reported a 26 percent decrease in second-quarter profit on a one-time $863 million charge for selling its 85 German stores.It was Wal-Mart's first earnings decline in more than 10 years.But excluding the charge, the world's largest retailer met analysts'...
PUBLIC COMPANY REPORT
- 2006-06-05
John Tyson Stops Down, Bond Becomes Tyson CEOTyson Foods Inc. President and CEO John Tyson is stepping down as part of a planned succession in which former IBP Inc. CEO Richard Bond will take his place.Bond is only the company's second CEO that is not a member of the Tyson...
Largest law firms
- 2006-06-05
Largest Law Firms Ranked by licensed attorneys in Arkansas Firm Name No. of ...
Using the MAE Wisely
- 2005-11-01
There is perhaps no legal concept more ubiquitous with mergers and acquisitions than a "material adverse effect." The MAE is in most agreements documenting an M&A deal, whether public or private, stock or asset, tender offer or one-step merger. Though the MAE concept appears under many guises, the use that...
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