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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Tyson Foods Appoints Donnie King Senior Group VP Of Poultry And Prepared Foods - Quick...
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Tyson Names New Leaders for Key Operating Units
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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 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 posts loss on charge in beef business
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Tyson Foods' Beef, Pork and Prepared Foods Segments Generating Returns At or Above Expected Levels
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The Daily Record News Briefs: October 29, 2008
- 2008-10-29
State laying off 40 workers State budget cuts will mean layoffs this week for 40 Maryland state employees. The filled jobs are among more than 800 mostly vacant positions eliminated because of this year's budget shortfall. Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration said the layoffs Wednesday will include more than...
Tyson Foods Inc
- 2008-06-09
Tyson Foods Inc. killed and buried 15,000 breeder hens found to be exposed to a low pathogenic strain of avian influenza. Preliminary tests on the flock indicated the presence of the avian influenza antibodies but found no indications of birds with the avian influenza virus. The situation does not posses...
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...
Fitch: Higher Operating Costs Threaten U.S. Commodity Food Profits in 2008
- 2007-12-06
CHICAGO -- Commodity protein producers and processors; such as Tyson Foods, Inc. Tyson, Smithfield Foods, Inc. Smithfield, Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (Pilgrim's) and Hormel Foods Corp. Hormel, have been absorbing high feed grain costs in their production operations and higher live animal procurement costs in their processing businesses. Commodity fruits and...
Somalis arrive in Emporia with tuberculosis
- 2007-11-25
By Mike Shields KHI NEWS SERVICE EMPORIA - When hundreds of Somali refugees began showing up to work at the meatpacking plant, nurses Lori Torres and Renee Hively were among the first to get to know the exotic, new arrivals. "We got notified a...
Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition Applauds Tyson for Producing Fresh Chickens Without Antibiotics
- 2007-06-19
To: HEALTH EDITORSContact: Dan Klotz, +1-917-438-4613, cell: +1-347-307-2866, dklotz@mrssny.com, for Keep Antibiotics Working WASHINGTON, June 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Medical experts and heath advocates hailed today's announcement by Tyson Foods that in response to consumer demand its fresh chickens would be raised without antibiotics as another step in preserving the effectiveness...
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 to Pay $1.5 million for alleged discrimination
- 2006-10-02
In the wake of an investigation by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale will pay $1.5 million to about 2,500 women and minorities that it did not hire. The world's largest meat processor also will make employment offers to some of those individuals...
GS1 US and mpXML Announce Successful Completion of Variable Measure Data Synchronization Pilot
- 2006-08-25
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- GS1 US and the Meat and Poultry Business to Business Data Standards Organization mpXML announced today the successful completion of a Data Synchronization Pilot of variable measure meat and poultry items using the Global Data Synchronization Network GDSN. Retailer participants included SUPERVALU and Wegmans Food Markets;...
Aggressive Traders Alert Issued on WWCD! April 11, 2006.
- 2006-04-11
M2 PRESSWIRE-11 April 2006-Wall Street News Alert: Aggressive Traders Alert Issued on WWCD! April 11, 2006C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11042006 Weston, FLA. - Wall Street News Alert's "stocks to watch" this morning are: World Wide Cannery and Distribution Inc., (OTC:...
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