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Tyson Foods Presses On, While Competitor Files Bankruptcy

Back-to-Basics Approach Rewards Poultry Company

Posted: March 14, 2010 at 6 a.m.

Sarah Bentham
Tyson Foods CEO Donnie Smith, left, speaks with Don Tyson, right, at the Tyson Corporate office in Springdale Thursday March 4, 2010.

Tyson Foods Inc. summoned Leland Tollett from retirement in January 2009 to lead the company out of its worst poultry operating deficits in decades — $286 million lost in the last quarter of 2008.

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Lisa Clayton, Culinary Team Member with Tyson Foods, serves a bowl of Tomato Basil soup during a sampling of new foods introd... (By: Sarah Bentham)

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