A Message from Joe Luter, IV

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Dear Smithfield Foods Employees,
In recent letters, Larry, Bo, and Dennis have written about strategy, vision, sustainability, and financial performance of Smithfield.  In this edition, I will share some insight on customer expectations of us as a strategic supplier. The days of "what's your price", and "is your product quality acceptable", while still relevant, are only two components...

Smithfield Commitments

Our Commitments

For the past 8 years, we have published an annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. It allows us to reflect on the past year and show the public how successful we were in achieving our targets in the areas of environmental and community impacts, animal welfare, employee relations, and food safety and quality. The annual report...

"Back to School" in Romania

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For the fifth consecutive year Smithfield Prod and Smithfield Ferme Timis, our subsidiaries in Romania, organized "Back to School," an initiative that seeks to support education and bolster school performance. Young students from local communities where Smithfield does...

Helping Hungry Homes: Extreme Makeover Style

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Smithfield Packing made a food donation in conjunction with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (EM:HE) for a new project in Delaware that will be aired on ABC-TV during Thanksgiving week. Be sure to...

The Bottom Line

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. - Les Brown

2011 Environmental Excellence Awards

As our company becomes an industry leader, we know our collective progress is the result of individual ambition. Our employees desire to set the bar high is what makes this company thrive, and such dedication does not go unnoticed. Every year at our Internal Awards Conference, we recognize the outstanding efforts of our IOCs to make Smithfield's operations...

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Stewart Leeth--Smithfield Foods

At Smithfield, we are constantly identifying new ways to enhance our environmental, health and safety performance and our sustainability programs. Not only are these core values for our company...

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The Surprising Uses for Pigs

When you think about a pig, you probably picture bacon for breakfast or a holiday ham. But pigs are much more than a simple food source. Did you know that a single pig can provide materials for nearly 200 different products? Researcher and designer, Christien Meindertsma, discovered...

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Clearing Up the Confusion About Healthy Eating

In June 2011, the food pyramid-the standard representation of a healthy diet for nearly two decades-was replaced by MyPlate, a simple visual with five colored sections showing the ratio of fruits...

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