Description of Sanderson Farms Inc's Business Segments
Processed chicken is first salable as an ice packed, whole chicken. The Registrant
adds value to its ice packed, whole chickens by removing the giblets, weighing,
packaging and labeling the product to specific customer requirements and cutting
and deboning the product based on customer specifications. The additional processing
steps of giblet removal, close tolerance weighing and cutting increase the value
of the product to the customer over whole, ice packed chickens by reducing customer
handling and cutting labor and capital costs, reducing the shrinkage associated
with cutting, and ensuring consistently sized portions.
The Registrant adds additional value to the processed chicken by deep chilling
and packaging whole chickens in bags or combinations of fresh chicken parts,
including boneless product, in various sized, individual trays under the Registrant’s
brand name, which then may be weighed and pre-priced, based on each customer’s
needs. This chill pack process increases the value of the product by extending
shelf life, reducing customer weighing and packaging labor, and providing the
customer with a wide variety of products with uniform, well designed packaging,
all of which enhance the customer’s ability to merchandise chicken products.
To satisfy some customers’ merchandising needs, the Registrant freezes
the chicken product, which adds value by meeting the customers’ handling,
storage, distribution and marketing needs and by permitting shipment of product
overseas where transportation time may be as long as 60 days.
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