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 loses deal with Brazilian processor
- 2008-03-17
Brazilian meatpacker Marfrig has announced that it has bought a controlling stake in Pena Branca, Sao Paulo's largest poultry processor. Tyson Foods Inc. had previously expressed interest in buying Pena Branca as part of the poultry producer's international expansion efforts. In February, Pena Branca said it intended to...
Tyson cooked products plant axed
- 2008-03-08
SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS: Meat processor Tyson Foods will close its cooked products plant in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in April with the loss of 400 jobs. The increased popularity of hot, rotisserie chicken in retail delis had reduced demand for its refrigerated oven-roasted chicken, the company said. "We've mode the difficult decision...
Tyson Foods nears deal with Brazilian processor
- 2008-02-18
Tyson Food Inc. is close to finalizing its purchase of Brazilian chicken company Pena Branca next month. Pena directors told The Wall Street Journal last week that it expects Tyson to acquire 100 percent of its poultry operations. Pena has the capacity to process 320,000 chickens a day. ...
TYSON FOODS TO BUILD 2 VENTURES IN CHINA
- 2007-11-15
AsiaInfo Services 11-15-2007 Tyson Foods to Build 2 Ventures in China SHANDONG, Nov 15, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, is said to nod an...
Kay''s Cuts by Steve Kay.(meat industry)(Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., Cargill Meat Solutions)(Editorial)
- 2006-09-07
Kay's Cuts Tyson is king no longer It’s not a pretty sight watching the King of the Cattle Kill get toppled from his throne. But the way Tyson Fresh Meats has been eclipsed reveals how exacting beef processing is. Strong, experienced management and constant...
Why a processor of the year? Are you finding ways to add value to your product? Have you wrung the inefficiencies out of your plants?(EDITOR'S PLATE)(Company Profile)
- 2005-12-01
There are plenty of accolades in the business world. From "best places to work" to the Malcolm Baldrige Awards to "America's most admired companies." Is there room for one more? Is it even necessary? We think so. In announcing our first Processor of the...
Kay''''s Cuts.
- 2005-02-11
Byline: Steve Kay Caught in a squeeze; more plant closings ahead? U.S. beef processors have been drowning in red ink for six months, and there's no lifeline at hand. So in early January they slashed production in an attempt to reduce their...
Bacon: one sizzlin' category! Fueled by an increased presence on foodservice menus and a retail revolution, bacon is sitting high on the hog.(category report)
- 2004-12-01
Bacon is driving pork consumption at a massive pace despite 2004's near-record -high belly pricing, enabling this pork cut to retain its crown as the king of breakfast. Dramatic consumer participation in high-protein diets, coupled with the foodservice sector pushing boundaries related to when...
Tyson to 'power the world' in launching $75 million promotion.
- 2004-08-16
Tyson Foods Inc. plans to begin "powering the world" at the end of August by launching a $75 million-plus promotion that recognizes the extent to which people need "all the energy and strength they can get" to make it through the hectic days of their lives. The campaign...
Judge: damages against Tyson 'overstate' liability
- 2004-03-29
Tyson Foods Inc. said last week that a federal judge overseeing the recent $1.28 billion verdict against it won't make the meat processor pay the full amount. U.S. District Judge Lyle Strom ruled that a Montgomery, Ala., jury's calculation "overstates" Tyson's liability. The jury ruled Feb. 17 that Tyson's...
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