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Cargill Meat Solutions is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc—a multi-generational family-owned and operated, multinational agribusiness giant.Cargill was America's Largest Private Company, with revenues of US$106.30 billion in 2008 and 151,500 employees, according to Forbes.
Fred's Frozen Foods; Company type: Private company: Industry: Food manufacturer: Founded: 1947; 78 years ago (): Fate: acquired by Central Soya in 1970, bought by International Foods in 1986, bought by Doskocil Food Service Company in 1994, bought by Iowa Beef Processors in 1997, bought by Tyson Foods, Inc. in 2001, bought by HM International in 2002
Iowa Beef Processors, Inc., later became IBP, Inc. Occidental Petroleum owned IBP from 1981 to 1987, and was the majority owner from 1987 to 1991. [2] [3] [a] IBP was acquired by Tyson Foods in 2001 for US$3.2 billion in cash and stock. [8] Tyson continues to use the IBP name as a brand for its commodity beef and pork products. [9]
The Troyer family, which owned Troyer Farms snack food company from 1967 until 2008, hopes to launch a new potato-processing plant by this fall. This time around, they plan to make organic frozen ...
The president of the Indiana Farm Bureau said that the organization is "extremely concerned about the closure of the Tyson pork processing facility. This is a devastating blow to the pork producers who sell hogs to Tyson." [132] On April 23, Tyson announced that a beef processing plant in Wallula, Washington was closing. Tyson executive Steve ...
On June 24, 2009, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that JBS Swift Beef Company, a Greeley, Colorado, establishment, recalled about 41,280 lb (18,720 kg) of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. By June 30, the recall included over 421,000 lb (191,000 kg). [20]
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]
In 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois with Otto & Sons as the supplier of fresh ground beef patties. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] When cryogenic food processing, a method of preserving fresh food through liquid nitrogen freezing, emerged in the late 1960s, Otto & Sons accepted Kroc's offer to become one of McDonald's ...