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Its 973,000-square-foot meat-processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was said in 2000 to be the world's largest, slaughtering 32,000 pigs a day. [8] Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion. [9] [10] It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date. [11]
The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
Armour Star (brand) Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1863, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most important business and had helped make Chicago and its Union Stock Yards the ...
Farbest Foods is one of the largest turkey companies in the United States and a respected leader in the industry. Farbest Foods' processing plants are in Huntingburg and Vincennes, Indiana. Using more than 400,000 square feet in two processing plants and two distribution centers, Farbest Foods processes nearly 15 million live turkeys each year.
Its plants slaughter approximately 155,000 cattle, 461,000 pigs, and 45,000,000 chickens every week. [12] Their largest meat packing facility is their beef production plant in Dakota City, Nebraska. Other plants include feed mills, hatcheries, farms and tanneries. [citation needed]
JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is a meat processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian multinational JBS S.A. The subsidiary was created when JBS entered the U.S. market in 2007 with its purchase of Swift & Company . JBS USA is based in Greeley, Colorado. [ 1] Its competitors include Hormel Foods, Cargill, Smithfield Foods, and ...
West Liberty Foods' three plants have been ISO 14001 certified for meeting environmental management standards, and the West Liberty plant was the first turkey-processing plant in the United States to receive this certification. [7] West Liberty Foods maintains separate facilities for research and development and laboratory testing services.
The Tyson plant employed about 25% of Perry's working-age residents before it shuttered, according to city and county officials. Accounting for workers' families and businesses directly related to ...