Tyson Foods
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| Traded as | : TSN S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | 1935 |
| Headquarters | Springdale, Arkansas, U.S. |
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Tom Hayes (CEO) |
| Products | Meat |
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Number of employees
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113,000 |
| Subsidiaries | Hillshire Brands |
| Website | tysonfoods.com |
US$ 41.373 billion (2015) 
US$ 23.004 billion (2015) Tyson Foods, Inc. (: TSN) is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company is the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork and annually exports the largest percentage of beef out of the United States. Together with its subsidiaries it operates major food brands, including Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Sara Lee, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, and State Fair.
The company was established by John W. Tyson in 1935, and as of 2014 employs 115,000 people, who work at more than 300 facilities, 90 of which are in the US. As of 2014, Tyson had about 97,000 employees in 27 states; locations are concentrated in the Midwest, with 16 locations in Arkansas, 11 in Texas, 9 in Iowa, and the remainder of the mostly eastern US with less than 3-4 locations. Tyson also works with 6,729 independent contract chicken growers.
It is one of the largest U.S. marketers of value-added chicken, beef and pork to retail grocers, broad line foodservice distributors and national fast food and full service restaurant chains; fresh beef and pork; frozen and fully cooked chicken, beef and pork products; case-ready beef and pork; supermarket deli chicken products; meat toppings for the pizza industry and retail frozen pizza; club store chicken, beef and pork; ground beef and flour tortillas. It supplies all Yum! Brands chains that use chicken, including KFC and Taco Bell, as well as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Wal-Mart, Kroger, IGA, Beef O'Brady's, small restaurant businesses, and prisons.
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