Tyson Foods
| Tyson Foods Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US9024941034 |
| founding | 1935 |
| Seat |
Springdale , Arkansas , United States
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| management | Tom Hayes (President & CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 113,000 |
| sales | 41,373,000,000 US dollars |
| Branch | food |
| Website | www.tysonfoodsinc.com |
| As of October 3, 2015 | |
Tyson Foods, Inc. is a US company headquartered in Springdale , Arkansas . The company is listed in the S&P 500 share index.
Products
Tyson Foods produces a number of different foods including beef, pork and chicken.
Tyson Foods is also the world's largest marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, and the largest annual exporter of beef from the United States. The company is a supplier of chicken meat for Yum! Brands (including Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell ). Tyson Foods also supplies McDonald’s , Burger King , Wendy's , Wal-Mart , Kroger , Costco , IGA , Beef O'Brady’s , smaller restaurants and prisons.
Tyson Foods s 54 chicken slaughterhouses slaughter 42.4 million chickens each week ; 170,938 cattle are slaughtered in the 13 cattle slaughterhouses and 347,891 pigs in the six pig slaughterhouses (based on 2005).
Its major main competitors include Cargill , Smithfield Packing Company and JBS Swift Group .
history
Founded Tyson Foods in 1935. The Group has adopted numerous companies throughout its history, such as the Hudson Foods Company, Garett poultry Washington Creamery, Franz Foods, Prospect Farms, Krispy Chickens, Ocoma Foods, Cassady Broiler, Vantress pedigree, Wilson Foods, Honeybear Foods, Mexican Original, Valmac Industries, Heritage Valley, Lane Processing, Cobb-Vantress , Holly Farms, Wight Brand Foods Inc. and IBP Inc. Tyson Foods plans to launch vegan chicken nuggets on the meat substitute market by the end of September 2019 .
Tyson Renewable Energy
Tyson Foods future plans are geared towards producing renewable energy in a joint venture with the US company ConocoPhillips . In this project, biodiesel is to be produced by converting waste products from animal husbandry.
Christian corporate culture
John Tyson - a grandson of the company's founder and CEO from 1999 to 2006 - is a “born again ” right-wing Christian. Tyson Foods funds Religious Right in the United States and employs 128 part-time chaplains in 78 of its works. The company's customers were encouraged to download a prayer book from the company's website to read during meals. Tyson firmly believes " that success for food companies in the future rests on selling their ideologies as much as their food ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Executive Bios ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Form 10-K 2015
- ↑ Tyson Foods Sustainability Report (English) ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreas Deutsch: Beyond Meat competitor: Now it's getting serious. In: deraktionaer.de. August 6, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Biodiesel magazine
- ↑ Chris Hedges : American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America . Free Press, New York 2006, pp. 22 .
- ↑ a b Adage
- ↑ Consumer affairs ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
