Articles Tagged with ''poultry''

With retailers holding ready-to-eat meat and poultry processors to relatively defined price levels, the only way to effectively increase profit margins is to lower production cost without sacrificing food quality or safety.

A Wall Street Journal article says Brazilian processor JBS SA, parent company of JBS Swift, is about to pay $2 billion to acquire poultry giant Pilgrim’s Pride Corp.

Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P., New York, N.Y., said it purchased a controlling 51 percent interest in Hain Pure Protein Corp.

Wayne Farms LLC, Oakwood, Ga., said it expects by the end of July to phase out further-processed poultry operations at its Douglas, Ga., site.

Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, said it will close its Dalton, Ga., chicken processing plant within 60 days and consolidate production into the company's Chattanooga, Tenn., operation.

After several rounds of reported negotiations, Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, said it agreed to sell its Farmerville, La., chicken complex for $80 million to Foster Farms.

For frozen chicken products purveyor Barber Foods, migrating to SAP R/3 put several related projects on the IT team’s plate.

Chicken processing giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, said the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas has approved the company's hiring of Don Jackson as president and CEO.

Tyson Foods Inc.'s next chief executive officer will be selected from the Springdale, Ark.-based company's internal pool of management.

Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., said President & CEO Dick Bond has decided to leave immediately and that former top executive Leland Tollett has agreed to return as president and CEO on an interim basis.