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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Is the sky falling?
- 2008-09-22
When times get tough for poultry growers and producers, pressure increases to become ever more efficient. That is particularly important in an industry that directly employs an estimated 25,000 Mississippians with 2007 sales of $2.3 billion - an increase of $300,000 from the previous year. "Feed costs are obviously high,"...
Tyson Foods Continues management shakeup
- 2007-10-15
Bill Lovette, senior group vice president of poultry and prepared foods at Tyson Foods Inc., is leaving the company and his position will not be filled, the meat processor said last week. The departure of the long-time senior executive was one of many senior management changes the company announced...
Tyson Foods Named POULTRY Magazine's 2007 Industry Innovator Award Winner
- 2007-09-06
CHICAGO -- Tyson Foods Inc. has been selected to receive POULTRY magazine's 2007 Industry Innovator Award, which honors excellence in the U.S. poultry industry in the areas of innovation, business success, leadership and industry contributions.
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.
Ethanol Production Could Threaten Tyson Earnings
- 2006-10-23
With bird flu fears receding, Tyson Foods Inc. now can turn its attention to another rising problem in the poultry industry: ethanol.The growth of ethanol production in the United States could become another tough nut for chicken producers to crack. Corn is the main ingredient in chicken feed, and it...
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- 2006-07-17
Largest Manufacturers Ranked by number of employees in Arkansas ...
Tyson scraps summer build of poultry production.
- 2006-05-06
Tyson Foods, Inc., recently announced an "overabundance" of meat forced a second-quarter fiscal-year loss. The company's poultry, pork and prepared-meats businesses were slightly profitable, but an operating loss of $188 million for the beef business turned the ink red. For poultry, Tyson officials...
Supreme Court ruling defines compensable time at plants
- 2005-11-21
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the amount of time employees spend "donning and doffing" and the subsequent time they spend traveling to and from the production floor in meatpacking or poultry processing plants is compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Donning and doffing is...
Largest manufacturers
- 2005-11-21
Largest Manufacturers Ranked by number of employees in Arkansas ...
US poultry firm counts cost of Katrina.(USA)(Hurricane Katrina, 2005)(Brief Article)
- 2005-09-09
The US company Tyson Foods, which has four poultry processing plants in Mississippi, has lowered its earnings forecast for 2005 due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina, Meatingplace reports. As a result of damage to the plants, Tyson says it will earn between US$0.92...
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