The Smithfield Packing Company team from Landover, MD with their award and Smithfield executives. From left to right: Dennis Treacy, John Huhn, Bill Jones and John Giuffrida of Smithfield Packing, Jean-Mari Peltier and executive vice president of Smithfield Foods, Joseph W. Luter, IV.

Charles Griffith, assistant general counsel for Smithfield Foods, accepts the EEA for Animex in Poland.

Danny Crumpler and Robert Mozingo from Smithfield Packing in Kinston, NC with their Environmental Excellence Award.

The winning John Morrell Sioux Falls, SD team comprised of Allen Ross, owner of Little Silver (contractor with John Morrell), and Steve Dravland, Manager of Environmental Engineering for John Morrell Sioux Falls with their award.

On August 13, 2003, six of Smithfield’s subsidiaries were presented with awards at the third-annual Environmental Excellence Awards Banquet in Norfolk, Virginia. The recipients include Schneider Foods, John Morrell & Company, Smithfield Packing Company (Landover, Md.), Smithfield Packing Company (Kinston, N.C.) and ANIMEX (Poland). Murphy-Brown, LLC won the President’s Award for its demonstration of exemplary environmental performance throughout the year of 2002.

“We are proud to honor these subsidiaries for their great efforts this year,” said Dennis Treacy, Smithfield’s vice president of environmental, community and government affairs. “Smithfield Foods is committed to proactive environmental stewardship. The innovative projects that we’re recognizing here tonight signify our commitment to preserving our precious natural resources.”

The Environmental Excellence Awards recognize those subsidiaries and their employees who look beyond compliance to focus on preventing pollution and enhancing environmental stewardship. Factors in determining the award winners include environmental impact, social significance, originality, innovativeness, technical value, transferability, efficiency and cost effectiveness.

Representatives of each Smithfield company with a winning project received individual certificates and plaques for their respective facilities at an awards ceremony held at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside. Jean-Mari Peltier, counselor to the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, served as the event’s keynote speaker as well as a special presenter for the awards. In addition, each winning team received a check for $5,000, of which $3,000 will be donated to charity with the remaining balance divided equally among team members.

Past award recipients are Moyer Packing, Smithfield Packing Company/Lykes Meat Group, Patrick Cudahy, Inc., Smithfield Packing Company (Tar Heel, NC).