[Homestead] Pilgrim's Pride Chicken bankruptcy today
bob ford
bobford79 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 1 18:40:42 EST 2008
Pilgrim's Pride went into Chap 11, today. They must be East Coast, I never see their chickens out here. Ususally Sanderson or Tyson, I think . They (PP) are selling maybe 40 - 50 million chickens annually, according to the stats below. That is a lot of chickens
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A look at the top US chicken industry players
Dec 1 06:59 PM US/Eastern
By The Associated Press Write a Comment
The nation's largest chicken producer, Pilgrim's Pride, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. Here's a look at the top five players in the chicken industry as of the middle of 2008:
_Pilgrim's Pride: 23 percent of market share, average weekly production of 170 million pounds
_Tyson Foods: nearly 19 percent, with production of 140 million pounds
_Perdue Farms: 7.6 percent, with production of 56 million pounds
_Sanderson Farms: 5.6 percent, with production of 41 million pounds
_Wayne Farms: 4.6 percent, with production of 34 million pounds
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