Tyson Foods, Inc.

Tyson Foods, Inc is one of the world’s largest food companies, involved in the production and sale of a variety of products including meat, poultry and prepared foods. With a longstanding history dating back to 1935, the company currently operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken and Prepared Foods. Tyson Foods processes live fed cattle and live market hogs, fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts and case ready beef and pork, and fully cooked meats. They also raise and process chickens into fresh, frozen and value-added chicken products, and supply poultry breeding stock. Aside from meat production, the company also manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products such as ready-to-eat sandwiches, hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausages, turkey and so on. With a strong portfolio of brands such as Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, State Fair, Aidells, Gallo Salame and Tyson and ibp, the company sells their products through a variety of channels such as grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries and industrial food processing companies.

The 2019 annual revenue of Tyson Foods was in excess of $40 billion USD and they had over 136,000 employees worldwide. Tyson Foods is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas and has facilities in the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Mexico, Brazil and the Philippines. The company held the distinction of being the world’s largest chicken producer in 2019 and is the second-largest food production company in the United States. Furthermore, Tyson Foods is the largest processor and marketer of beef, pork and chicken in the world, accounting for around one-fifth of the total meat production in the United States. Other subsidiaries of the company include Butterball, Aramark, AdvancePierre Foods and Tyson branded poultry, meat and food products. As of 2020, Tyson Foods is listed as #89 on the Fortune 500 list of the country’s largest companies.