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 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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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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Change in consumer taste plucks poultry plant's jobs.(Western)
- 2008-04-01
Too many people want to pick up hot chicks. After about 20 years selling refrigerated roasted chicken, Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson Foods Inc. will close its Wilkesboro roasting plant, idling 410 workers. Blame consumers' need for speed, spokesman Ga Too many people want to pick up hot...
New KHP leader named
- 2008-02-02
By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Gov. Kathleen Sebelius appointed a new superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol on Friday in preparation for Col. William Seck's retirement. The governor selected Lt. Col. Terry Maple, the patrol's assistant superintendent since 1999 and a 30-year veteran of...
Emporia to have fair for laid-off workers
- 2008-02-02
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Emporia has organized a job fair to help people who are losing their jobs in the Tyson Foods' layoff in Emporia. The job fair will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 16 at Flint Hills Technical College, 3301 W. 18th...
Emporia to have fair for laid-off workers
- 2008-02-02
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Emporia has organized a job fair to help people who are losing their jobs in the Tyson Foods' layoff in Emporia. The job fair will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 16 at Flint Hills Technical College, 3301 W. 18th...
Emporia plans for layoffs
- 2008-01-30
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL EMPORIA - Residents are beginning to address the problems and challenges associated with Tyson Foods' decision to lay off 1,500 of its 2,400 employees. "In some ways this is like the Greensburg tornado, except we see the tornado coming,"...
Emporia plans for layoffs
- 2008-01-30
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL EMPORIA - Residents are beginning to address the problems and challenges associated with Tyson Foods' decision to lay off 1,500 of its 2,400 employees. "In some ways this is like the Greensburg tornado, except we see the tornado coming,"...
Tyson Foods Inc. has been fined $40,000 by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration for safety violations in a Kansas worker's death
- 2007-01-29
Tyson Foods Inc. has been fined $40,000 by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration for safety violations in a Kansas worker's death. OSHA levied a $5,000 fine for each of three "serious" violations and $25,000 for a "repeat" violation. An ammonia leak at Tyson's South Hutchinson plant on Oct. 31...
Tyson Settles, Will Pay $871,000
- 2006-12-04
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale said in late November that it had settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by workers at the company's Ashland, Ala., poultry plant.The country's largest meat processing company said in a news release that it will pay $871,000 collectively to 13 plaintiffs.The lawsuit was filed in 2005...
Catch 22 How immigrants workers - legal and illegal - affect Kansas
- 2006-11-19
The reaction of business owners and community leaders when asked about illegal immigration in Kansas - and Topeka - reminds Jaime Gonzalez-Vallejo of the three monkeys that clasp their hands over their ears, eyes and mouths. "I don't talk. I don't hear. I don't see," he said....
Who's accountable for immigration violations: employers or illegal
- 2006-11-19
By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Greg Van Etten, owner of Labor Pros, said he sees Hispanic immigrant workers come into his company's offices in Topeka, Olathe and Kansas City, Kan., every day hunting jobs. They come in, fill out application forms and show two...
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