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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Stock summary
- 2008-04-21
4/17/2008 weekly YTD Arkansas Public Company Stocks Close Change Change Acxiom Corp. ACXM ...
Cobb-Vantress of Siloam Springs, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods Inc., has partnered with French poultry breeder Sasso to develop, produce, sell and market Cobb Sasso colored bird and specialty breeding stock in specific global markets
- 2008-02-11
Cobb-Vantress of Siloam Springs, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods Inc., has partnered with French poultry breeder Sasso to develop, produce, sell and market Cobb Sasso colored bird and specialty breeding stock in specific global markets. The alliance plans to sell parent breeding stock in the semi-industrial, certified free-range and organic...
Stock summary
- 2008-01-14
Stock Summary 1/10/2008 Weekly ...
Acxiom stockholders suffer; Murphy family rises to No. 2
- 2007-11-05
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] THE ANNUAL LIST OF TOP stockholders is a reminder that Arkansas companies have brought impressive wealth to many. But the past year was kinder to some than others. Take, for instance, the Acxiom Corp. stockholders who saw the value of their stock holdings sink as the...
Stock Market Alerts: Special Alert and Coverage Issued for PNHD! September 25, 2007
- 2007-09-25
Stock Market Alerts' performance stock list includes: Planet Nutrition Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PNHD), NutraCea (OTCBB: NTRZ), Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGF). Having just recently begun trading last month, Planet Nutrition Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PNHD) should have investors closely monitoring the stock this morning. Monday...
Stock summary
- 2007-08-13
Stock Summary Arkansas Public Company Stocks 8/9/2007 Weekly ...
Meat sellers' stock falls as China restricts some imports
- 2007-07-17
Stocks of several major U.S. meat producers dropped Monday after news spread that China, citing safety concerns, had restricted some poultry and pork imports. But the impact is likely to be slight unless the restrictions are long-lived, expand or fall victim to increasing tensions between the...
Stocks to Watch - ATK, TSN, SYNM, CYTR.
- 2007-06-25
M2 PRESSWIRE-25 June 2007-SmallCapReview: Stocks to Watch - ATK, TSN, SYNM, CYTRC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25062007 Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) Closed at $23.07. Announced today that it is taking another strategic step in its quest to be a leader in ...
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...
Don Tyson unloads Tyson Foods stock
- 2007-03-05
Don Tyson, a member of the board of directors and the former board chairman of Tyson Foods Inc., recently sold more than $11 million in company stock. Tyson converted 211,311 shares of Class B stock to Class A and sold them to earn $3.99 million. He sold 141,685 shares...
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