At a Glance

For over six decades, Pilgrim's has produced healthy, high-quality food products that go into some of the world's finest recipes. We are dedicated to providing these wholesome, high-quality products at a great value, allowing everyone to eat well.

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Pilgrim's is the second-largest chicken producer in the world, with operations in the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Our corporate headquarters is in Greeley, Colorado.
We employ approximately 40,500 people and have the capacity to process more than 38 million birds per week for a total of more than 10.3 billion pounds of live chicken annually.
Pilgrim's is ranked among the largest U.S. corporations, with net sales totaling $6.9 billion in fiscal 2010.
Approximately 4,100 contract growers supply poultry for the company's operations.
Pilgrim's 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.
We currently operate in 14 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Mexico. These states include Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Arizona and Utah.
Pilgrim's operates 29 fresh processing plants and eight prepared foods cook plants. Five fresh processing and one prepared-foods cook plants are currently idle.
Pilgrim's has 32 feed mills and 40 hatcheries supporting our plants.
Pilgrim's operates 14 distribution centers (five in the U.S., one in Puerto Rico and eight in Mexico).
The company exports chicken products to customers in approximately 95 countries.
We produce 30 million dozen table eggs per year, or about 0.46% of the nation's supply.
JBS USA, a unit of JBS S.A. in Brazil, owns 67.3% of our outstanding common stock.