BNET Industries
Market Cap:$3.8B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$26.8B
- Public
- US
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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
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Tyson Foods, Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 03/28/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-05-04
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Heather Jones - BB&T Capital Markets Heather Jones - BB&T Capital Markets I had a quick question on chicken, going back I think it was December or January, so you all have made...
Tyson Foods Inc. F1Q09 (Qtr End 12/27/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-01-26
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Christina Mcglone - Deutsche Bank Securities. Christina Mcglone - Deutsche Bank Securities Jim, I have a question on the beef side. You ran through a lot of information, but I just want to make sure that I understand; with packer...
Tyson Foods to Focus on Brazil, India, Other Emerging Markets
BNET
- 2008-11-03
There's not much left for Tyson Foods to do in the U.S., founder and former CEO Don Tyson told the AP in a recent interview. Instead, the world's largest meat processor will focus on emerging markets like Brazil, India and China, following "the expanding footprint of fast food chains." by...
Tyson's Fingerman awarded ACF President's Medal
- 2008-09-29
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
- 2008-07-28
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tyson Food Service is committed to helping operators weather the tough economy with the introduction of its Ideas @ the Heart of Value program. The six-volume, Web-based series offers value propositions, menuing ideas and downloadable merchandising materials. For more information visit online at www.buckstopshere.net.
Tyson Foods purchases Indian poultry processor
- 2008-07-07
Tyson Foods Inc. is making another move into an emerging market. The company has bought 51 percent of Mumbai, India-based Godrej Foods Inc., a subsidiary of Godrej Agrovet Ltd. The new venture is called Godrej Tyson Foods and is expected to reach initial annual sales of $50 million. The...
Tyson Foods
- 2008-06-23
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tyson Food Service is committed to helping operators weather the tough economy with the introduction of its Ideas @ the Heart of Value program. The six-volume, Web-based series offers value propositions, menuing ideas and downloadable merchandising materials. For more information visit online at www.buckstopshere.net.
Tyson Foods Inc. has sold several brands of its meat products to Kayem Foods Inc. a meat processor in Chelsea, Mass
- 2008-05-26
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.
Tyson sweeps ad fed awards
- 2008-03-17
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale and Sells/Clark's Fayetteville office won the most 2007 awards from the Northwest Arkansas Advertising Federation. The NWAAF sponsored the Addy awards on Feb. 23 in Fayetteville. Tyson Foods won six gold and six silver awards, and Sells/Clark won three gold and six silver...
Tyson Foods Inc. received the 2008 Corporate Award for Community Service from the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission
- 2008-01-28
Tyson Foods Inc. received the 2008 Corporate Award for Community Service from the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission. Tyson supports numerous nonprofit organizations and projects each year and since 2000 has donated $3 million and more than 49 million pounds of chicken, beef and pork products to more than...
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