Cobb-Vantress has made its first poultry shipment to Jordan in the Middle East, the company said Wednesday.
The Siloam Springs company worked with Saudi distributor Al-Watania Poultry to navigate recent logistical challenges and deliver the Cobb 500 chickens.
Pelayo Casanovas, vice president of Cobb-Vantress operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, called the shipment a major step toward supporting the emerging market in Jordan.
“We expect this shipment will be the first of many,” he said.
Cobb signed a distributor deal with Al-Watania Poultry in 2018 and since then has worked to expand meat chicken production in Saudi Arabia.
Cobb, owned by Tyson Foods, has business in more than 120 countries, shipping chickens and other products around the world.