Articles Tagged with ''Sanderson Farms''

Net sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 were $595.8 million compared with $517.8 million for the same period a year ago.

Net income for the year totaled $53.9 million, or $2.35 per share, compared with a net loss of $127.1 million, or $5.74 per share, for last year.

He will succeed James A. Grimes, who has announced his retirement from Sanderson Farms effective October 31, 2012.

The incentive package would give Sanderson Farms land valued at $1.2 million and annual cash payments worth nearly 40 percent of the property taxes paid by the company on all buildings, improvements and equipment each year for 15 years.

Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 were $624.9 million compared with $511.2 million for the same period a year ago.

Officials at the union representing workers at a Sanderson Farms chicken processing plant in Hazlehurst, Miss., are calling for the company to improve the unsafe working conditions and the racial insensitivity in the facility.

For the quarter, net income was $23.9 million, compared with a net loss of $16.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2011.

American Proteins, Cuthbert, Ga, and Sanderson Farms, Flowood, Miss., were selected as winners of U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’s 2012 Clean Water Awards.

Net sales for fiscal 2011 were $1.978 billion compared with $1.925 billion for fiscal 2010.