Articles Tagged with ''meat processor''

Reuters reported that Kraft Foods Inc., Northfield, Ill., will freeze the 2009 salaries of CEO Irene Rosenfeld and 18 other top officials.

When it comes to communication and collaboration, nobody does it better than the Tyson Foodservice Group.

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.

Meat industry media said Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, notified employees at its Live Oak, Fla., plant that the company will discontinue second-shift operations during the next 60 to 90 days.

The Wall Street Journal recently profiled Pilgrim's Pride Corp. and said the Pittsburg, Texas-based poultry giant may soon need bankruptcy protection.

Cargill Value Added Meats, Wichita, Kan., is scaling back at two Willow Brook Foods operations in Springfield, Mo.

Hormel Foods Corp., Austin, Minn., said Gary Ray, president of the company's protein units, and Russell Potter, vice president of operations-grocery products division, will retire.

Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., last week marked 50 years in poultry processing.

Citing raw material price increases, prepared meats and entrees processor Pierre Foods Inc. said it voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief to restructure debt.