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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. [3]
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. [32] On June 1, 2007, CEO Staley was succeeded by Gregory R. Page. [33]
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.
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]
Did you recently buy ground beef? Major retailer Walmart is pulling Cargill products from shelves due to E. coli concerns.
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 ships hides to Tennessee Tanning, a Rawlings subsidiary, for processing into leather. "As those animals reach the end of their life, there is a consistent turn there," McCullough said.
Seaboard built its current corporate headquarters in Merriam, Kansas in 1980. In 1982 Seaboard sold its domestic flour milling division to Cargill, Inc. and changed its name to Seaboard Corporation, while continuing its milling operations outside the U.S. Harry Bresky and Seaboard took noticeable steps to diversify the company, initially by ...