Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation has revealed plans to consolidate production volumes from its Alma, Virginia-based chicken processing plant into two of its other area complexes over the next several months.

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David Van Hoose, CEO, president and COO, commented: “This change is being made in order to improve operating efficiencies and reduce costs in the eastern division chicken operations.


“The consolidation will result in production volumes from Pilgrim’s Pride’s existing plant in Alma, Virginia being consolidated into the Company’s chicken processing complexes in Broadway, Virginia, and Moorefield, West Virginia.”


Pilgrim’s Pride is the second largest poultry producer in the US – the third largest in chicken and fifth largest in turkey – and is the second largest chicken company in Mexico. The company employs more than 24,500 persons and operates processing and further processing plants, distribution centers, hatcheries and feed mills in Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia and Mexico.


The company has stressed that the plant closure will have no material financial impact on its financial results.

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