By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – Spam-maker Hormel Foods Corp (N:) is eliminating a growth drug banned by China from its hog supply, the company said on Tuesday, joining rivals that are seeking to increase meat sales to Chinese buyers grappling with a pork shortage. Hormel will not accept anyRead More →
(Reuters) – Bernard J. Tyson, chairman and chief executive officer of not-for-profit health insurer Kaiser Permanente, died unexpectedly in his sleep on Sunday, aged 60, the company said in a statement. Tyson, who held the top job since 2013, was Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente’s first black chief executive and aRead More →
© Reuters. Investing.com – Stocks in focus in premarket trading on Wednesday: • Tyson Foods (NYSE:) stock fell 5.6% in premarket trade by 8:15 AM ET (12:15 GMT) after it cut its full-year earnings forecast to $5.30 to $5.70 per share due to the impact of a fire at oneRead More →
© Reuters. Over 3,800 workers at Tyson Foods beef plant in Kansas out of work after fire (Reuters) – Some 3,800 workers at a Tyson Foods Inc (N:) meat-processing plant in Kansas will be out of work after a Friday night fire that caused significant damage, but the company onRead More →
Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson got an earful Sunday on Twitter after an ill-advised tweet in the aftermath of Saturday’s two horrific mass shootings that left at least 29 people dead. The killings don’t really matter in the big picture, deGrasse Tyson seemed to say, it’s just that darn humanRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Fog shrouds the Tyson slaughterhouse in Burbank, Washington (Reuters) – Tyson Foods Inc (NYSE:) said on Thursday it has not formalized plans for a beef processing plant in Kazakhstan, responding to a media report that the largest U.S. meat processor was in talks over a multibillion-dollarRead More →
Have Tyson’s chicken strips jumped the shard? Tyson Foods Inc. TSN, +2.40% the producer of processed meats, will recall nearly 12 million pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strip products due to metal contamination concerns, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said over the weekend. The recall was expanded from a recallRead More →
