Stellar, Jacksonville, Fla., said it will provide full design-build services for Keystone Foods' new 185,000-square-foot chicken processing facility in Gadsden, Ala.
Needing to cut costs, chicken processing giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, said it will eliminate approximately 355 salaried and salaried non-exempt positions across the company.
Citing feed costs and an oversupply of chicken, Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, said it will lay off 116 workers at the company's Franconia, Pa., plant.
Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, announced that it plans to idle a chicken processing plant in Clinton, Ark., as well as a further-processing facility in Bossier City, La.
Just weeks after purchasing a majority stake in one of India's largest poultry companies, Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., acquired a 60-percent stake in one of China's largest poultry processors.