Tyson Food Inc.

Part I of Essay
Tyson Foods, Inc., is the world's largest fully integrated producer, processor, and marketer of poultry-based food products whose strategy is to "Segment, Concentrate, and Dominate." The firm is vertically integrated (with seven specific levels of activity), contains numer ....

Part II of Essay
.... met products are produced: fresh carcass products (i.e., whole bird and parts; formed products; emulsified products. Producers sell directly to large grocery and restaurant chains. From 1987 to 1991, poultry processing shipments have increased from $14.913 million to a total of $21.703 million, exhibiting a steady percent change increase that peaked in 1988-89 at +22.2 percent and is not at +3.7 percent. Export value increased by a factor of 22 percent from 1990 to 1991 and import value increased in the same period by 15.6 percent. The ind ....