About Seaboard
Seaboard Corporation is a unique company with a rich history dating back more than 90 years. Although the company has evolved over time through acquisitions, partnerships and internal growth, its roots are in grain and agriculturally derived products. Common to all our endeavors, we strive to distinguish ourselves in the industries we select.
Seaboard Corporation directly or indirectly employs more than 14,000 people worldwide. We are #531 on the 2009 Fortune 1000 list with net sales of approximately $4.0 billion annually. Seaboard is traded on the NYSE Alternext Exchange under the symbol SEB.
Seaboard Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates, strictly adhere to the principles of fairness and ethical conduct. We are committed to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct.
Company History
- Commenced production at a 30-million gallon per year biodiesel facility adjacent to the Guymon, Oklahoma pork processing plant.
- Completed expansion of alcohol distillery operations at Tabacal.
- Repurchased 4.74% equity interest in Seaboard Foods, LP from the former owners of Daily's.
- Acquired a non-controlling equity interest in a flour mill business in Colombia.
- Acquired a non-controlling equity interest in a grain trading business in Peru.
- H. Harry Bresky retired as President and CEO; succeeded by his son, Steven J. Bresky.
- Triumph Foods commenced operations at its St. Joseph, Missouri pork processing plant in the first quarter of 2006 and Seaboard Foods began marketing Triumph’s pork products.
- Purchased Daily's, a bacon processor located in the western United States, with plants in Salt Lake City, Utah and Missoula, Montana. Daily's former owners acquired a 4.74% equity interest in Seaboard Foods, LP as part of this transaction.
- Acquired a controlling interest in a grain milling operation in Mozambique.
- Sold equity investment in Fjord Seafood ASA.
- Sold shrimp farming and processing assets in Honduras.
- Acquired an additional equity interest in Fjord Seafood, becoming the largest shareholder in Fjord.
- Exchanged ownership interest in a joint venture in Maine engaged in the production and processing of salmon and other seafood products for shares of common stock of Fjord Seafood ASA.
- Completed construction of additional feed mill in Okeene, Oklahoma.
- Sold the Poultry Division to ConAgra.
- Completed construction of a pork division feed mill in Leoti, Kansas.
- Commenced operations of a 71.2 megawatt barge-mounted power plant located in the Dominican Republic.
- Acquired a cargo terminal business at the Port of Houston.
- Acquired an interest in a flour, maize and feed mill operation in Kenya.
- Acquired the assets of a flour and feed milling operation in the Republic of Congo.
- Contributed cash and the controlling interest in a Bulgarian wine company in exchange for a non-controlling interest in a larger, Bulgarian wine operation.
- Designed and built a flour mill in Luanda, Angola.
- Acquired an interest in a flour mill in Haiti.
- Acquired an interest in a maize, feed and flour mill in Lesotho.
- Purchased a controlling interest in a winery in Bulgaria.
- Purchased a flour and maize milling business in Zambia.
- Sold the Holsum Bakers and Seaboard Bakeries business and Harinas Flour Mill, both located in Puerto Rico.
- Began second shift at the Guymon, Oklahoma pork processing plant.
- Commenced operations at the hog processing facility in Guymon, Oklahoma.
- Acquired an interest in Tabacal Agroindustria, an Argentine company engaged in sugar cane production and refining and citrus production.
- Acquired an interest in a flour mill, pasta plant and cookie operations in Beira, Mozambique.
- Constructed additional feed mill in Hugoton, Kansas to support the integrated hog operations.
- Purchased a poultry further processing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- Constructed a feed mill in Optima, Oklahoma to support hog production activities.
- Formalized plans to grow two million hogs in Southwestern U.S.
- Began construction of a greenfield pork processing facility in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
- Acquired flour mills in Guanica, Puerto Rico and in Matadi, Zaire from Continental Grain.
- Constructed first feeder pig facility and feed mill in Northeast Colorado.
- First full year of operations for Seaboard's joint venture to raise Atlantic Salmon off the coast of Maine.
- Constructed a state-of-the-art poultry complex in Mayfield, Kentucky on a greenfield site.
- Acquired a pork processing plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota.
- Formed Transcontinental Capital Corporation (Bermuda) Ltd. and installed a floating power barge in the Dominican Republic to supply electricity within the country.
- Constructed a feed mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee to support poultry operations.
- Designed and constructed a poultry tray pack facility in Athens, Georgia poultry complex for Seaboard Farms.
- Purchased several Central American farming operations and a Miami-based produce distribution company through Mount Dora Farms, Inc.
- Constructed shrimp farming operations in Honduras.
- Commenced shrimp farming operations in Ecuador with Continental Grain.
- Established Mount Dora Farms, Inc.(the “Produce Division”), a producer of fruits and vegetables in Latin America, to take advantage of Seaboard Marine transportation services to and from Miami to the Americas.
- Purchased the Elberton Poultry Company, a further processing operation in Elberton, Georgia, to provide further processing capabilities for the Poultry Division.
- Constructed a new polypropylene bag plant, in Sapele, Nigeria, Delta Packaging Company, Ltd.
- Acquired Central Soya's Poultry Division, consisting of broiler complexes in Athens and Canton, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee with integrated operations in the Southeastern United States.
- Acquired Holsum Bakers of Puerto Rico and Seaboard Bakeries, also of Puerto Rico.
- Formed Seaboard Marine, Ltd to provide scheduled containerized shipping services between the U.S. and various international ports.
- Sold all domestic flour mills to Cargill, Inc.
- Name changed to Seaboard Corporation.
- Designed and built a new corporate headquarters in Merriam, Kansas.
- Acquired Mochasa, Ecuador's leading manufacturer of animal feed.
- Expanded capacity of the Liberian flour mill by 50 percent.
- Expanded capacity of the Nigerian flour mill by 100 percent.
- Commenced operations at Top Feeds, Ltd., a feed plant in Sapele, Nigeria.
- Constructed a flour mill in Albany, New York, the fifth domestic flour mill built by Seaboard in 14 years.
- Constructed a flour mill in Port Allen, Louisiana.
- Founder Otto Bresky retired as Chairman and member of the Board of Directors; succeeded by his son, H. Harry Bresky.
- Acquired a flour mill in Cleveland, Tennessee.
- Constructed a new flour mill in Buchanan, Liberia.
- Constructed a new flour mill in Sapele, Nigeria.
- Constructed a flour mill in Culpepper, Virginia.
- Constructed a flour mill in Georgetown, Guyana.
- Constructed a flour mill in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- Constructed a flour mill in Jacksonville, Florida.
- Acquired a flour mill in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in a joint venture with Continental Grain Company, marking first overseas operation.
- Purchased George Urban Milling Company in Buffalo, New York.
- Began innovative strategy of locating flour mills near major population centers in the Southeast and East Coast.
- Constructed a flour mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- Became a public company through a merger with Hathaway Industries, Inc., a publicly traded company, and changed name to Seaboard Allied Milling Corporation. The company was listed under the symbol "SEB."
- Acquired the Consolidated Flour Mills Company and related assets.
- Purchased Ismert-Hincke Milling Company.
- Acquired Rodney Milling Company and related milling assets.
- Acquired the Imperial Brewery Company in Kansas City and converted to a flour mill.
- Acquired first flour mill in Atchison, Kansas.
