Tyson Foods

Tyson Foods, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas that operates in the food industry and is the world's second-largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork after JBS S.A., making it the largest meat company in America. Founded in 1935 by John W. Tyson and grown under four generations of family lea... dership, the company has a broad portfolio of products and brands like Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp, and State Fair. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods, processing live fed cattle and hogs, fabricating dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully cooked meats, raising and processing chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products, including breaded chicken strips, nuggets, patties, and other ready-to-fix or fully cooked chicken parts, and supplying poultry breeding stock. The company also manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, Gallo Salame, ibp, and State Fair brands. Tyson produces about one-fifth of the beef, chicken, and pork sold in the United States. The company sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and food service operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent.Read More