Tyson Foods, Inc. is a meat protein and food production company. The Company produces, distributes and markets chicken, beef, pork, prepared foods and related allied products. Its operations are conducted in four segments: Chicken, Beef, Pork and Prepared Foods. It operates a vertically integrated poultry production process. Its integrated operations consist of breeding stock, contract growers, feed production, processing, further-processing, marketing and transportation of chicken and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc. (Cobb), is engaged in poultry breeding stock supplies. It also processes live fed cattle and hogs, and fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case ready beef and pork and fully cooked meats. During the fiscal year ended October 1, 2011, the Company exported to more than 130 countries.