Company Profile For Tyson Foods, Inc

Tyson Foods, Inc. is a meat protein and food production company. The Company produces, distributes and markets chicken, beef, pork, prepared foods and related allied products. The Company’s operations are conducted in four segments: Chicken, Beef, Pork and Prepared Foods. The Company’s integrated operations consist of breeding stock, contract growers, feed production, processing, further-processing, transporting and marketing chicken and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc. (Cobb), the Company also operates as a poultry breeding stock supplier, supplying Tyson, as well as a number of other poultry production companies. It processes live fed cattle and hogs and fabricate dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready and fully-cooked meats. The Company produces a range of frozen and refrigerated food products.

BRIEF: For the fiscal year ended 3 October 2009, Tyson Foods, Inc.'s, revenues decreased 1% to $26.7B. Net loss from continuing operations totaled $536M, vs. an income of $86M. Revenues reflect a decrease in income from beef and a fall in income from Pork segment. Net loss reflects the presence of goodwill impairment charges, an increase in interest expenses and the presence of other net expenses, vs an income.

Tyson Foods, Inc
2200 Don Tyson Parkway
Springdale   AR   72762
P: +1479.2904000
F: +1479.2904061

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