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Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat producer, is scheduled to report results for its fiscal fourth quarter on Monday before the market opens. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
In a move that signals Tyson Foods Inc. believes its chicken business is again profitable, the world's largest meat maker has named a new CEO to replace interim head Leland Tollett, who had been tapped in January to help weather an industry downturn.
A federal court has ruled that Tyson Foods Inc. violated federal labor standards for not paying production line employees for the time it takes them to put on and remove protective and sanitary gear.
About 30,000 fewer people floated in the Illinois River watershed in 2007 compared with two years earlier, a professor testified Tuesday, suggesting that decades of chicken manure pollution may have made one of the state's top recreational areas less attractive to the public.
A Brazilian meat conglomerate could leap ahead of American meat producer Tyson Foods Inc. to become the world's largest meat company with two deals announced Wednesday that would expand its interests in beef, dairy and chicken.
Changes at Tyson Foods Inc. over the past year have begun to help the bottom line of the world's largest meat producer, which posted a strong third-quarter profit on Monday.
Tyson Foods was sentenced in federal court Friday to pay a $500,000 fine and serve a year on probation for the death of a Texarkana worker overcome by poisonous fumes at a rendering plant.
Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday it lost more than expected in its fiscal second quarter because of declining beef sales and one-time costs, while the world's largest meat maker noted that it expects a drop in demand for pork amid worries about swine flu to be short-lived.
Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat producer, reports results for its fiscal second quarter on Monday before the market opens. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
Tyson Foods Inc. said Friday it had completed the sale of its Lakeside Farm Industries operation in Alberta, Canada, to XL Foods Inc.
Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat producer, said Thursday it will issue $500 million in notes and it plans to arrange a new $1 billion line of credit.
The interim chief executive of Tyson Foods says the world's largest meat producer is making "significant progress" in turning around its faltering chicken business.
Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday that its president and chief executive, Dick Bond, will step down immediately and be replaced by a former CEO as the world's largest meat processor continues to weather a downturn in the industry.
Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat company, said Wednesday it has signed a new agreement with its creditors that puts up just about the entire company as collateral for its loans.
Tyson Foods Inc. had a bad year with its chicken segment, but pork and beef finished strong as the company announced Monday that it will push forward with expansion projects.
A 19-year-old partygoer accused of stealing $140,000 from the Arkansas home of the chairman of Tyson Foods Inc. pleaded guilty Tuesday to transporting stolen goods.
A flood-damaged Tyson Foods Inc. plant has reopened in Wisconsin but the meat maker is cutting more than 200 jobs there due to damaged equipment.
Union workers and officials at a Tyson Foods plant in Tennessee said Friday they have agreed to reinstate Labor Day as a paid holiday, and the plant will also observe the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr this year.
Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat company, saw its third-quarter profits nearly obliterated because of skyrocketing grain costs and said Monday that it may be another quarter before the worst is over for its chicken division.
Tyson Foods Inc. served notice Monday that its customers will be paying more for their food products because the world's largest meat producer foresees spending as much as $1 billion more than last year due to skyrocketing grain costs.
A college student was arrested in the theft of a briefcase containing more than $140,000 from the home of the chairman of meat processing giant Tyson Foods Inc., police said.
Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat producer, reported Monday its first-quarter profit slid 40 percent, withdrew its earnings guidance for the year and said it will hike prices largely to offset rising costs of commodities used to feed cattle, chickens and pigs.
Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat company, said Friday it would end beef slaughtering at its Emporia plant, cutting about 1,500 jobs, or more than half its work force at the facility.
Tyson Foods Inc. plans to revise labels that say its fresh chicken is "raised without antibiotics" after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it made a mistake in approving labels that use that term.
Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat company, announced Monday it plans to expand its foreign business. The news came as the company reported a return to profit for its fourth quarter but forecast earnings for this year below what analysts were expecting.
Tyson plant shutdown likely to hurt food bankThe Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma will lose its fifth-largest food donor when the Tyson Foods plant closes in Ponca City next month.
No-Bull Rancher Challenges USDAAn open letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: Will we eat from our own backyards or beg food from big agribusiness? By Mike Callicrate
Tyson Foods Injects Chickens with Antibiotics Before They Hatch to Claim "Raised without Antibiotics" Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat processor and the second largest chicken producer in the United States, has admitted that it injects its chickens with antibiotics before they hatch, but labels them as raised without antibiotics anyway. In response, the U.S.
Are We Already Eating Cloned Meat?Food and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may have entered the U.S. food supply, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, but it would be impossible to know because there is no difference between cloned and conventional products.
Tyson Foods Drops Labor Day For Muslim HolidayWorkers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day but will instead be granted the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.
AVA monitoring Tyson chicken products - Yahoo! Philippines NewsDirector of the state's Livestock and Poultry Commission, Mr Jon Fitch, told the Associated Press the birds tested positive for exposure to the H7N3 strain — not the H5N1 strain that ravaged Asian poultry stocks in late 2003 and has killed 241 people worldwide.
Tyson chickens exposed to bird flu are killedSpringdale-based Tyson began killing 15,000 hens from a flock that tested positive for antibodies of H7N3, a less virulent strain of the virus.
15,000 hens in Arkansas test positive for bird-flu exposureTyson Foods has begun killing and burying the carcasses of 15,000 hens that tested positive for exposure to a strain of the avian flu in northwest Arkansas, state officials said Tuesday.
Why Hillary's Favorite Chicken Company is Eying ChinaNo one has ever accused Tyson Foods of being green. Even as the Springdale, AR-based meat giant's probation ends for 20 federal violations of the Clean Water Act at its Sedalia, MO chicken plant in 2003--it paid a $7.7 million fine--it is back in court.
The Curious History of Delta & Pine LandThe Stephens Group prides itself on being the nation's largest investment bank outside Wall Street, based, of all places, in little ol' Little Rock, in hillbilly land, Arkansas, one of the poorest states in the United States. Stephens Inc.
Somalis arrive in Emporia with tuberculosis: Health officials acted quickly as refugees came for meat jobs. By Mike Shields, Sunday, November 25, 2007When hundreds of Somali refugees began showing up to work at the meatpacking plant, nurses Lori Torres and Renee Hively were among the first to get to know the exotic, new arrivals.
Big companies get their way on interpretation of fuel rule | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleWASHINGTON — Millions of American taxpayers may feel a bit grumpy today after cutting checks to the Internal Revenue Service. But ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods have reason to be more kindly disposed to the tax man this April.
Conocophillips, Tyson to Make Biodiesel From FatOil company ConocoPhillips and meat producer Tyson Foods Inc. plan to work together to produce biodiesel from animal fat, the companies said on Monday.
Pollution in the Water, Lawsuits in the AirEvery time the rain comes down, muddy water laden with phosphorus, arsenic and other contaminants flows into the Illinois River from chicken farms nearby and just across the border in Arkansas.
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