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Cargill Meat Solutions is a subsidiary of the Minneapolis -based multinational agribusiness giant Cargill Inc, [1][2] that comprises Cargill's North American beef, turkey, food service and food distribution businesses. Cargill Meat Solutions' corporate office is located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Jody Horner is the division's president.
Cargill Meat Solutions acquired Milwaukee Emmpak in 2003 and merged it with Taylor Packing Co. (purchased in 2001). In 2006, Cargill Meat purchased Fresno Meats. The three main brands of beef are Circle T Beef, Valley Tradition, and Meadowland Farms. [31] On June 1, 2007, CEO Staley was succeeded by Gregory R. Page.
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]
Cargill has a long, rich heritage, starting with W. W. Cargill's first grain storage facility on the American frontier in 1865. The company has grown to become one of the largest privately owned businesses, providing food, agricultural, risk management, financial, and industrial products and services around the globe.
A Hanford-based meat processor has purchased the Cargill Meat Solutions beef plant in Fresno, positioning itself as one of the top California beef producers. Brian Coelho, ...
The Cargill-MacMillan family is the fourth richest family in the United States on Forbes' list. [1] [41] In 2016 their revenue was estimated at USD$49 billion, [10] and $113.5 billion in 2019. [5] [6] By 2019, Cargill Inc had been listed as America's largest private company since 1986, in all but two years that Forbes has maintained the list. [5]
It sold Spencer Beef in 1983 to Excel, now Cargill Meat Solutions. [7] In 1999, Land O'Lakes took an ownership stake in egg producer MoArk; it took full ownership of the company in 2006. [8] [9] In 2001, it paid $360 million – and assumed $130 million in debt – to take over animal feed producer Purina Mills, once part of Ralston Purina. [10]
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 Tyson ...