BNET Industries
Market Cap:$3.6B
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 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 quarterly loss on goodwill charge
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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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Donnie Smith Promoted to CEO of Tyson Foods
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U.S. stock futures rally following remarks by Fed officials
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Opening View: Fed Speeches Bolster Wall Street Bulls
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Lincoln casts two votes against public option
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Findings of Oklahoma witness decried by Arkansas poultry companies
News & Analysis
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Tyson Foods teams with China producer
- 2008-02-11
Tyson Foods Inc. President and CEO Dick Bond announced the completion of a deal with Chinese poultry breeding company Jiangsu Jinghai Poultry Industry Group Co. to build a new fully integrated poultry operation in eastern China during Tyson's 2008 annual shareholders meeting at the Springdale Convention Center. Terms of...
Shareholders alert for Tyson Foods Inc.
- 2007-06-21
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 June 2007-bellwetherreport.com: Shareholders alert for Tyson Foods IncC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21062007 Shareholders alert for Tyson Foods Inc (NYSE:TSN) Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and marketing of chicken, beef, pork,...
Shareholder options actions proceed against directors.(Delaware)
- 2007-05-01
The intentional backdating or "spring-loading" of stock options by corporate directors, if proven, would be a breach of the good-faith element of the duty of loyalty sufficient to rebut the business judgment rule, the Delaware Court of Chancery has held in two shareholder derivative lawsuits. (Ryan...
Tyson tells shareholders efforts are 'paying off'
- 2007-02-12
Looking ahead, not backward, was the general message expressed by Tyson Foods Inc. Chairman John Tyson and CEO Richard L. Bond during the 44th annual shareholders meeting at the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale. Tyson and Bond thanked the stockholders for their support during the trying times of...
Fitch: U.S. Food & Restaurant Industries Outlook is Stable, But Cost Pressures are Looming
- 2006-12-06
CHICAGO -- With the exception of the protein processors, whose demand and production cycles have been destabilized by the market impact of animal diseases, the operating performance of the food and restaurant industries was generally Stable throughout 2006 for Fitch's rating universe. Many firms absorbed higher energy and packaging costs,...
Tyson focused on creating shareholder value
- 2006-09-11
Tyson Foods Inc. CEO Richard L. Bond and CFO Wade Miquelon, speaking at the Prudential Equity Group's Annual Back-to-School Consumer Conference in Boston last week, said the company will focus on selling more products across all distribution channels to create long-term value for the company's shareholders. Like all meat...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal rights group that holds shares in Tyson Foods Inc., has filed a shareholder resolution asking the world's largest meat company to phase in a more humane method of chicken slaughter
- 2005-09-05
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal rights group that holds shares in Tyson Foods Inc., has filed a shareholder resolution asking the world's largest meat company to phase in a more humane method of chicken slaughter PETA wants Tyson to switch to controlled-atmosphere killing, a method of...
Power brokers: our picks for the 11 most influential people in the food industry don't believe in the status quo.(Cover Story)
- 2005-05-01
Influence. Power Clout. There are various definitions and measures of these seemingly intangible assets. When the new president of Ukraine takes your meeting because you knew him in his banker days (1), you've got it. When President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev visit...
First Federal to repurchase 5 percent of outstanding stock
- 2005-02-14
First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc. of Harrison has completed one stock buy-back program and promptly announced another. The unitary savings and loan holding company for First Federal Bank said it completed the repurchase of 260,257 shares on Feb 7. The company began the buy-back program on June 7....
Tight Security, Predictable Votes Mark Annual Shareholders Event
- 2004-02-16
Shareholders of iyson Foods Inc., the world's largest processor and marketer chicken, beef and pork, gathered on Feb. 6 for the company's annual meeting.Converging on Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, about 600 people filed through metal detectors to attend the event which required tickets for the first time. Security was particularly...
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