Tag: poultry business

Focusing on day-old-chick and poultry feed production, Tanzanian Silverlands is preparing to produce 7.3 million day-old chicks per year in its new hatchery equipped...

Tyson Foods announced that Wes Morris has been named president of Tyson Foods’ poultry business, effective January 27. Morris has over 35 years of...

Atria announced that it will increase the competitiveness of its poultry business in Finland and centralize poultry production at the Nurmo factory. Atria's change negotiations launched on...

Atria PLC, one of the leading meat and food companies in Northern Europe, is planning some measures to improve the competitiveness of its poultry...

Cargill and Continental Grain Company have completed the previously announced acquisition of Sanderson Farms, Inc. The joint venture between the two companies, a privately...

Pilgrim’s announced the appointment of Ivan Siqueira as president of the company’s Pilgrim’s UK business unit, Britain’s leading provider of higher welfare pork. Pilgrim’s...

Sanderson Farms stockholders approved the agreement for a joint venture between Cargill and Continental Grain to acquire Sanderson Farms. Upon completion of the transaction,...

Cargill and Continental Grain Company have announced that they will acquire Sanderson Farms for $203 per share in cash and create a leading U.S. poultry company. The transaction brings together two complementary U.S. poultry operators, Wayne Farms and Sanderson Farms, under the joint ownership and control of two premier food and agribusiness companies with deep roots in U.S. agriculture.

Tyson Foods will invest $48 million as part of its commitment to accelerate the long-term growth of its poultry business and continued success of its Arkansas, U.S. poultry plant, company officials said. Nearly 70 jobs will be created by the project, which is expected to be complete by late 2021.