Wayne-sanderson Farms Acquires Harrison Poultry

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Wayne-Sanderson Farms has acquired chap US poultry processor Harrison Poultry pinch contiguous effect.

Financial specifications were not disclosed.

The woody includes each Harrison Poultry assets, Wayne-Sanderson Farms said successful a connection connected Monday (28 July).

The assets see unrecorded production, hatchery, provender mill, manufacturing and carrier accommodation linked to Harrison Poultry’s operations successful Bethlehem and Crawfordville.

Integrated operations will commencement immediately, pinch “minimal” changes expected to day-to-day activities.

Harrison Poultry, established successful 1958 by R. Harold Harrison, is headquartered successful Bethlehem successful Georgia and employs much than 1,000 people.

It offers a scope of traditional, world and legal poultry products.

The institution produces astir 400 cardinal pounds of poultry products annually nether nan Golden Goodness, Pollo Eldorado and Al Marwah brands.

“We are good matched. Wayne-Sanderson Farms is known for value people, value workplace partners and value products, and truthful is Harrison Poultry. We expect nan modulation to beryllium practically seamless,” Kevin McDaniel, who assumed nan domiciled of president and CEO of Wayne-Sanderson Farms, said.

In 2022, Wayne Farms was combined pinch US adjacent Sanderson Farms. Alongside US agri-food elephantine Cargill, Continental Grain, nan proprietor of Wayne Farms, acquired Sanderson.

The group is nan third-largest poultry processor successful nan US, operating 24 caller and further-processing accommodation crossed Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas.