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Tyson

Tyson

Head office: USA

Tyson Foods, Inc., incorporated in 1947, produces, distributes and markets chicken, beef, pork, prepared foods and related allied products. The Company operates a totally integrated poultry production process. Its integrated operations consist of breeding and raising chickens, as well as processing, further-processing and marketing these food products and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients.

Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc. (Cobb), the Company supplies poultry breeding stock. Tyson Foods, Inc. also processes live fed cattle and hogs and fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready products and fully cooked beef and pork products. In addition, the Company derives value from allied products, such as hides and variety meats it sells to further processors and others. Tyson Foods, Inc. operates in four segments: Chicken, Beef, Pork and Prepared Foods.

The Company produces a range of fresh, value-added, frozen and refrigerated food products. Its products are marketed and sold, primarily by its sales staff located in Springdale, Arkansas, and Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, to national and regional grocery retailers, regional grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, clubs and warehouse stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, national and regional chain restaurants or their distributors, international export companies and domestic distributors, who service restaurants, foodservice operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals and other vendors. Additionally, sales to the military and a portion of sales to international markets are made through independent brokers and trading companies.

The company has approximately 114,000 Team Members employed at more than 300 facilities and offices in the United States and around the world. In fiscal year 2007 the company reached the revenue of US $ 26.9 (EUR 20.3) billion.

Net Profit Margin  (ttm)  1.00%

Operating Margin (ttm)  2.28%

Website: www.tyson.com

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