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National Beef is the U.S.'s fourth largest beef processor, with sales exceeding $7 billion annually. [15] National Beef products are available to national and regional retailers, including supermarket chains, independent grocers, club stores, wholesalers and distributors, foodservice providers and distributors, further processors and the U.S. military. [16]
National Beef also owns and operates a slaughterhouse and beef packing plant in Liberal with a capacity of processing 6,000 cattle per day [9] and employing about 3,500 people. That number of employees comprises about one-third of the total employed work force in Seward County where Liberal is located. [10]
In 2011, the company acquired a 79% interest in National Beef Packing Company for $867.9 million. [26] [27] In 2012, the company proposed building a $3 billion syngas facility in south Chicago to convert coal and petroleum waste into natural gas; however, the plant never received legislative approval. [28]
JBS also announced in 2008 its intention to buy National Beef Packing Company for $560 million, but canceled the plan after the U.S. Department of Justice raised antitrust concerns. [ 10 ] In 2009, JBS USA acquired 63% of Pilgrim's Pride [ 11 ] Chicken Company and shortened the name to simply Pilgrim's.
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters (AMC), officially the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, 1897–1979, was a labor union that represented retail and packinghouse workers.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers [1] in the United States and Canada in industries including retail; meatpacking, food processing and manufacturing; hospitality; agriculture; cannabis; chemical trades; security; textile, and health care.
Klippenstein has served as chairman of the National Beef Promotion and Research Board, the American Polled Hereford Association, and by Presidential appointment, served on the Federal Ag Mortgage Corporation board of directors. [2] In November, 2000 Klippenstein was named Chief Executive Officer of the American Chianina Association. [3]
National Beef is a large beef packing company which is controlled by Marfrig, Brazil's second largest food processing company. A plant owned by National Beef in Tama, Iowa , closed for a week after 177 workers were diagnosed with coronavirus at a facility that employed over 500 workers.