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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation is one of the largest chicken companies in the United States and Puerto Rico, and the second-largest in Mexico. Our prepared-foods products meet the needs of some of the largest customers in the food service industry across the United States. Under the well-established Pilgrim's Pride brand name, our fresh chicken retail line is sold regionally in the Central, Southwestern and Western United States and Northern and Central Mexico. Additionally the company exports commodity chicken products to more than 80 countries.
Pilgrim's Pride employs approximately 41,000 people and has the capacity to process approximately 9 billion pounds of chicken per year. As a vertically integrated company, we control every phase of the production of our products, operating feed mills, hatcheries, processing plants and distribution centers in 14 states, Puerto Rico and Mexico. A market-driven company, Pilgrim's Pride has brought to market more than 1,000 products for its customers.
The company's objectives are to offer our customers superior products and services and to outpace the growth of the chicken industry by focusing on growth in the prepared-foods market, the Mexico market and on better use of the company's existing assets.
For additional investor relations or financial information, contact:
Gary Rhodes
Vice President, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
903-434-1495
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