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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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
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Tyson Foods F3Q09 (Qtr End 6/27/09) Earnings Call Transcript
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- 2009-08-03
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question is from Farha Aslam. Farha Aslam - Stephens, Inc. Good morning. Jim, could we get some more color on beef? It just had a fantastic quarter. Do you expect results in the fourth quarter to be in your normalized range...
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,"...
Bond says Tyson Foods has strategy for success
- 2008-02-25
Richard L. Bond, president and chief executive officer of Tyson Foods Inc., said last week that despite escalating grain prices and other challenges, the meat processor is "strategically positioned for future success." At the annual Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference, Bond said the company was working to...
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...
Tyson, Kemin team up to enter pet food market
- 2008-01-14
Tyson Foods Inc., in alliance with Kemin Industries Inc. of Des Moines, Iowa, plan to develop, manufacture and sell liquid and dry flavor-enhancers to U.S. pet food manufacturers. Kemin provides health and nutritional solutions to a variety of pet and human health and food industries. Both Kemin and...
Tyson Foods Inc. has been given an Outstanding Achievement award in the Most Innovative Company category from Consumer Goods Technology
- 2007-10-22
* Tyson Foods Inc. has been given an Outstanding Achievement award in the Most Innovative Company category from Consumer Goods Technology for its innovation in the consumer goods market.
ConocoPhillips, which earlier this year joined with Tyson Foods Inc
- 2007-10-08
* ConocoPhillips, which earlier this year joined with Tyson Foods Inc., to produce a form of biodiesel from discarded animal protein, has formed an alliance with Archer Daniels Midland Co., the agriculture processing giant, to make biocrude from the waste of crops, wood and switchgrass, which can be turned into...
Tyson Foods Inc. has received Poultry magazine's 2007 Industry Innovator Award
- 2007-10-01
Tyson Foods Inc. has received Poultry magazine's 2007 Industry Innovator Award. The company was cited for its achievements in product development. The magazine said the Tyson Discovery Center reflects the emerging intersection of food science and culinary arts that raises the culinary and scientific standard for the entire poultry industry.
Tyson launches Culinary Alliance to deliver chef-driven business solutions
- 2007-08-06
SPRINGDALE, ARK. -- Tyson Foods Inc., based here, launched the Tyson Culinary Alliance at the 2007 American Culinary Federation National Convention held late last month in Orlando, Fla. The alliance features a network of 60 chefs from 36 foodservice brokerages around the United States who will serve foodservice operators...
ConocoPhillips, Tyson Foods announce strategic alliance.(TOP OF THE NEWS)
- 2007-05-01
ConocoPhillips Houston and Tyson Foods, Inc. (Springdale, Ark.) have announcd a strategic alliance to produce and market the next generation of renewable diesel fuel, which will help supplement the traditional petroleum-based diesel fuel supply. The alliance plans to use beef, pork and poultry by-product fat to...
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