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Home » Top 150 Frozen Foods Processors Report--Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Top 150 Frozen Foods Processors Report--Meat, Poultry & Seafood

 

 

Top 150 Frozen Food Processors 2017 Top 150 Frozen Food Processors 2017--Dairy

 

Rank Company Name HQs Top Executive 2016-17 Sales FY Ended Product No. of Plants
1 Tyson Foods Inc.* Springdale, AR Tom Hayes, president, CEO $37B** 9/30/2016 Chicken, beef, pork 62
2 JBS USA(1) Greeley, CO Andre Nogueira, CEO $33.6B** 9/30/2016 Beef, pork, chicken 55
3 Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.(2) Wichita, KS Brian Sikes, V-P. $23B** 5/31/2016 Beef, poultry 32
4 Hormel Foods Corp. Austin, MN Jim Snee, president, CEO $9.5B** 10/30/2016 Beef, pork, poultry 10
5 Perdue Farms LLC Salisbury, MD James Perdue, chairman $6.3B*(**) 3/31/2016 Chicken 7
6 OSI Group LLC Aurora, IL Sheldon Lavin, chairman, CEO $6.125B** 12/31/2016 Beef, pork, poultry, seafood 55
7 Rich Products Corp.* Buffalo, NY Bill Gisel, president, CEO $3.5B** 12/31/2016 Seafood 37
8 American Foods Group, LLC Green Bay, WI Steve Van Lannen, president, COO $3.1B** 9/30/2016 Beef 10
9 Koch Foods* Park Ridge, IL Joseph Grendys, president, CEO $3B** 12/31/2016 Chicken 18
10 Sanderson Farms Inc. Laurel, MS Joe Sanderson, Jr., chairman, CEO $2.8B** 10/31/2016 Chicken parts 1
11 Keystone Foods, LLC(3) West Chester, PA Frank Ravndal, Jr., CEO $2.7B** 12/31/2016 Beef, poultry, seafood 14
12 Mountaire Farms Inc.(4) Millsboro, DE Paul Downes, president, CEO $2B* 11/1/2016 Chicken 3
13 Wayne Farms LLC Oakwood, GA Elton Maddox, chairman, president, CEO $1.9B* 3/31/2016 Chicken 2
14 Greater Omaha Packing Co. Inc. Omaha, NE Henry Davis, president $1.8B** 10/31/2016 Beef 1
15 AdvancePierre Foods* Cincinnati, OH Chris Sliva, president, CEO $1.57B** 12/31/2016 Beef, poultry, pork, lamb 11
16 Butterball LLC(5) Garner, NC Kerry Doughty, president, CEO $1.5B** 12/31/2016 Turkey, pork 7
17 Seaboard Foods, LLC Merriam, KS Terry Holton, president, CEO $1.3B*(**) 12/31/2016 Pork 1
18 High Liner Foods* Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada Keith Decker, president, CEO $1.1B** 1/2/2017 Seafood 4
19 Fieldale Farms Corp. Baldwin, GA Gus Arrendale, chairman $950M** 9/30/2016 Chicken 3
20 Simmons Prepared Foods, Inc.* Siloam Springs, AR Gary Murphy, president $833M* 12/31/2016 Chicken 6
21 West Liberty Foods, LLC West Liberty, IA Ed Garrett, president, CEO $741M** 4/30/2016 Poultry, pork 4
22 John Soules Foods, Inc. Tyler, TX John Soules, Jr. & Mark Soules, co-CEOs $450M 12/31/2016 Beef, poultry 3
23 BPI Dakota Dunes, SD Eldon Roth, CEO $450M* 12/31/2016 Beef 4
24 Golden State Foods Irvine, CA Mark Wetterau, chairman, CEO $300M(a) 12/29/2016 Beef patties 1
25 Jensen Meat Co., Inc. San Diego, CA Abel Olivera, CEO $128M** 12/31/2016 Beef 1

* Company declined to confirm.

** Company-wide.

(a) Reflects frozen foods sales only.

(1) Unit of JBS S.A.

(2) Unit of Cargill Inc.

(3) Unit of Marfrig Global Foods

(4) Unit of Mountaire Corp.

(5) Unit of Seaboard Corp. and Maxwell Farms, LLC

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