Tyson Foods Inc

Tyson Foods Inc. together with its subsidiaries operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef Pork Chicken and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts as well as case ready beef and pork and fully cooked meats; raises and processes chickens into fresh frozen and value-added chicken products including breaded chicken strips nuggets patties and other ready-to-fix or fully cooked chicken parts; and supplies poultry breeding stock. It also manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products including ready-to-eat sandwiches flame-grilled hamburgers Philly steaks pepperoni bacon breakfast sausage turkey lunchmeat hot dogs flour and corn tortilla products appetizers snacks prepared meals ethnic foods side dishes meat dishes breadsticks and processed meats under the Jimmy Dean Hillshire Farm Ball Park Wright State Fair Aidells and Gallo Salame brands. In addition the company offers its products under the Tyson and ibp brands. It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers grocery wholesalers meat distributors warehouse club stores military commissaries industrial food processing companies chain restaurants or their distributors live markets international export companies and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and food service operations such as plant and school cafeterias convenience stores hospitals and other vendors as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale Arkansas.