After a blitz of capital investments leading into its 30th anniversary in 2016, Case Farms now turns its efforts toward fully maximizing its potential.
In a cyclical business such as poultry production, it’s difficult to be on top and stay on top. For Thomas Shelton, who founded Case Farms in 1986 after decades of poultry industry experience, success never meant having to be the biggest company out there.
“I’ve always said that I don’t want to be the biggest; I just want to be the best managed, best run chicken company in America,” he says. For 31 years, Shelton has watched Case Farms grow from two employees (counting himself) and zero plants to approximately 3,200 employees, four processing plants, one further-processing plant, three feed mills and four hatcheries in Ohio and North Carolina today.