From Humble Beginnings to Industry Leader

Vision: To be a World Class Food Company... Better Than The Best

Mission: Our Job Is Outstanding Customer Satisfaction... Every Day

For over six decades, Pilgrim's Pride has produced healthy, high-quality food products that go into some of the world's finest recipes. In fact, we developed a number of those recipes ourselves, so consumers of our products could enjoy and benefit from them to the fullest. Now we have developed a new recipe - one to enhance the quality and health of our company and all its stakeholders.

Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation is one of the largest chicken companies in the United States and Mexico.
Our net sales in fiscal 2008 totaled $8.5 billion.
Pilgrim's Pride is currently ranked No. 304 on the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. corporations.
Pilgrim's Pride employs approximately 41,000 people in the U.S. and Mexico.
The company has major facilities in Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico and Mexico, as well as other facilities in Arizona and Utah.
The company has the capacity to process more than 45 million birds per week for a total of more than 9 billion pounds of poultry per year.
Pilgrim’s Pride products are sold to foodservice, retail and frozen entrée customers. The company’s primary distribution is through retailers, foodservice distributors and restaurants throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and in the Northern and Central regions of Mexico.
Pilgrim’s Pride operates 31 chicken processing plants (28 in the United States and three in Mexico) and 8 prepared-foods plants. Five additional processing plants and three prepared-foods plants are currently idle. Twenty-nine feed mills and 39 hatcheries support these plants.
Approximately 5,000 growers supply poultry for the company’s operations.
EggsPlus™, our healthier alternative to the ordinary egg, has all the great nutrients a normal egg has to offer plus increased levels of Vitamin E, Lutein and Omega-3 essential fatty acids, which have been proven to reduce the risk of heart attack, cardiac sudden death and stroke.
Pilgrim’s Pride produces 42 million dozen table eggs per year and can produce up to 1 million dozen eggs per week during peak holiday seasons.
In Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Pilgrim’s Pride operates one of the largest prepared-foods plants in the United States, with the capability to produce 2,000 different products and more than 7 million pounds of finished goods per week.
The company’s Live Oak, Florida, facility features advanced air-chilling technology to process chickens that are antibiotic-free and raised on an all-vegetable diet. This new premium product line supplies the growing natural foods retail supermarket segment.
The company's further-processing facilities have the combined capacity to produce 1.5 billion pounds of product per year.
Pilgrim’s Pride operates five distribution centers in the United States and 18 in Mexico.
Plants in Mexico are strategically located to serve 75 percent of all Mexican consumers.
The company exports commodity chicken products to more than 80 countries, including China, Japan, Kazakhstan and Russia.
Pilgrim’s Feed manufactures more than 155,000 tons of high-quality bulk and bagged feed per year for livestock and show animals.

Learn more about the company's proud history through Pilgrim's Story or you can also get information about available Career Opportunities.



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