Smithfield Foods Inc

Smithfield Foods, Inc. operates as a meat-processing company. The company is headquartered in Smithfield, Virginia and currently employs 32,000 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2025-01-28. The firm markets its products under a portfolio of brands including Smithfield, Eckrich and Nathan’s Famous, among many others. The company operates through three segments: Packaged Meats, Fresh Pork, and Hog Production. The Packaged Meats segment consists of its U.S. operations that process fresh meat into a variety of packaged meat products, including bacon, sausage, hot dogs, deli and lunch meats, dry sausage products, ham products, ready-to-eat products and prepared foods. The Fresh Pork segment consists of its U.S. operations that process live hogs into a variety of primal, sub-primal and offal products, such as bellies, butts, hams, loins, picnics and ribs. The Hog Production segment consists of its hog production operations in the United States, which produce and raise hogs on numerous Company-owned farms and farms that are owned and operated by third-party contract farmers.