Butts Foods Inc

Founded in 1935, Tyson Foods is one of the world s leading, publicly owned processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork. The company serves the retail and food service markets in more than 80 countries, as well as employs over 110,000 staff members in nearly 300 facilities throughout the world. It offers products of the Lady Aster, Tyson, Wright and Bonici brands. Tyson Foods provides a range of fresh, frozen and fully cooked items, such as steak fingers and chicken wings, nuggets and patties. The company also offers meal and salad kits. In addition, it provides a variety of promotional options under the All Natural and Tyson Any'tizers brands. Tyson Foods operates Mallard's Food Products, which specializes in the manufacture and development of refrigerated entrees.

Peco Foods is one of the leading poultry suppliers to the nations retail and food service markets. The company s jumbo chicken legs and wings are exported to a number of countries, including Japan, Canada, Russia, Poland, Romania, Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Spain, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It offers frozen chicken breasts packed individually for easy removal. Peco Foods provides boneless, skinless tenderloins and breast cutlets. Peco's boneless breasts are individually frozen and packed in a variety of sizes. It also offers breast halves and whole butterflies available skinless and with skin. In addition, its product line also includes marinated boneless breast products. Peco Foods is located in Bay Springs, Miss.

Marshall Durbin is one of the largest privately-owned poultry companies in the United States. By 1996, the company produced 111 million chickens a year. Based in Birmingham, Ala., Marshall Durbin has facilities in Alabama and Mississippi. It is a vertically-integrated poultry company. Marshall Durbin insures that its chickens are exposed to high-quality feed, trained service crews, efficient egg hatcheries and government-inspected processing. The Marshall Durbin product list includes whole birds with and without giblets; fast food cuts approved by Popeye s and KFC; chicken parts such as fronts, breast, wings, leg quarters and gizzards; and boneless portions. The company distributes chicken product throughout the world.