Tyson Foods, one of the US’s largest poultry processors, will add on-farm video cameras and pilot humane slaughter methods in a major effort to improve welfare for the 35 million chickens it processes a week.
Marc Killebrew, vice president of international sales at Tyson Foods has been elected chairman of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC), succeeding former incumbent Steve Monroe.
One of America’s largest poultry producers, Tyson Foods, plans to stop using human antibiotics in its US chicken operations within the next five months.
US-based Tyson Foods has agreed to acquire sandwich-maker AdvancePierre Foods in a $4.2bn deal that will expand the giant meat processor’s market share in prepared foods.
One of the US’ largest meat processors, Tyson Foods, has appointed Justin Whitmore as its first sustainability leader as the company takes steps towards a cleaner footprint on the planet.
Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest meat processors, is under federal investigation for allegedly colluding with other meat companies to raise the cost of poultry.
Financial brokers have challenged Tyson Foods on the timing of its announcement that its chief executive officer (CEO) Donnie Smith would be replaced by its president Tom Hayes on 31 December.
Tyson Foods has recalled over 1,000 pounds (lb) of frozen popcorn chicken shipped to one US wholesaler after a school found hard plastic in packaging of the product.
Top brass at US meat processor Tyson Foods have told investors at the Barclays Global Consumer Stables Conference the business is braced for a wave of growth in 2017.
Meat supplier Tyson Foods has grown ahead of expectations after posting record third-quarter earnings as a focus on prepared foods and value-added chicken helped operating income surge.
Employees at Tyson Foods - one of the world’s biggest meat processors - have proposed to build a new poultry processing site near an existing plant in Arkansas.
Tyson Foods has been accused of using “cruel and illegal” practices at a chicken abattoir in Texas by an animal rights group that filmed undercover at the plant in Carthage.
Tyson Foods has shunned a Tennessee farm producing chicken for McDonald’s McNuggets after an animal rights group posted gruesome footage online depicting birds being clubbed and stabbed with a spiked pole.
Tyson Foods, the US food company, has welcomed a ruling by the Supreme Court, which has agreed to review limits on how workers band together to dispute pay and workplace issues.
The Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission has cleared JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s Pride’s proposed acquisition of Tyson Food’s Mexican operations Tyson de México.
US meat giant Tyson Foods has said it is actively working to eliminate the use of human antibiotics in its US broiler chicken flocks, with the aim of reaching its goal by September 2017.
Tyson Foods announced the completion of its merger with Hillshire Brands last week, in a move which positions Tyson as "a clear leader in the prepared foods business", according to a statement from the company.
US firm The Hillshire Brands Company appears to be the subject of a bidding war, with a number of unsolicited proposals to buy the business – from Tyson Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride.
More consistency and clarity is needed on the USDA's labeling and
advertising rules on meat and livestock-raising claims, Tyson Foods
has said as it announced the withdrawal of its 'raised without
antibiotics' chicken...
Tyson foods, the world's largest protein processor, is set to boost
its new product development with the opening of a new "Discover
Center" in Arkansas for R&D.
Plant closures, higher grain costs and the ongoing rationalisation of its business interests have resulted in a decline in quarterly earnings of 26 per cent for Tyson Foods.
Tyson Foods, America's largest provider of chicken, beef and pork, announced this week the completion of its newly expanded and upgraded laboratory in Arkansas, just south of company's world headquarters.
