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Wayne Farms Company HistoryWayne Farms LLC is part of the family of ContiGroup Companies, Inc. Wayne Farms LLC represents one of the most vertically integrated poultry companies in the United States and ContiGroup’s largest business sector, processing almost 1.5 billion pounds of chicken annually. ContiGroup Companies ContiGroup Companies, Inc. (ContiGroup), is one of the world’s largest privately owned companies. Through six generations and nearly two centuries of agribusiness experience and commitment to the industry, ContiGroup is an innovator and leading force in processing and marketing of agri-products and food on a global scale. ContiGroup, formerly known as Continental Grain Company, was founded in 1813 in Belgium and has evolved from a European trading business into an international, multifaceted agricultural business. Since 1944, ContiGroup has operated in the United States, and is headquartered in New York City. ContiGroup is comprised of a variety of different businesses: Wayne Farms LLC, Five Rivers Ranch Cattle Feeding LLC, Premium Standard Farms, ContiLatin, ContiAsia, and ContiInvestments Each year ContiGroup and their subsidiaries produce, process and market more than two billion pounds of poultry, beef, and pork as well as producing animal feeds and edible flour. These businesses focus on marketing both in the United States and internationally. Wayne Farms LLC Wayne Farms LLC, formerly known as the Poultry Division of ContiGroup Companies, is the sixth largest producer and processor of broiler chickens in the United States. Utilizing the many resources of ContiGroup, Wayne Farms LLC’s vertical integration allows control of the process from feed to final (raw or cooked) product, assuring strict product quality and food safety throughout the process. Producing products under the brand names of Wayne Farms ®, Dutch Quality House® and Platinum Harvest®, Wayne Farms LLC has a well-known history of providing exceptional poultry products to some of the largest industrial, institutional and foodservice companies across America. Wayne Farms® has been doing business since 1965 with the spin-off of the poultry division from Allied Mills, a former subsidiary of Continental Grain Company. With that spin-off, Wayne Farms was established with locations in Albertville and Union Springs, Alabama. Interestingly enough, the Albertville facility, which was operated under a variety of different poultry company owners, is the oldest poultry facility in the state of Alabama. Over the course of the past thirty years, we have acquired fresh processing facilities in Danville, Arkansas, Laurel, Mississippi, Decatur, Alabama, Dobson, North Carolina, Pendergrass, Georgia, Enterprise Alabama and our most recent acquisition in College Park, Georgia. Our processing facilities are built to exacting food safety standards and we are constantly looking at ways to improve our processes and equipment to deliver high-quality and exact-to-specification product. DUTCH QUALITY HOUSE® , the mark of quality for further processed poultry, has been a trusted name brand since the first plant opened in 1978. DUTCH QUALITY HOUSE® has been a part of the ContiGroup operation since 1985 with the acquisition of our first plant in Oakwood (north Atlanta metro), Georgia. Since the opening of our first plant, we have acquired two facilities in Bossier City, Louisiana and Douglas, Georgia and built a state-of-the art facility in Decatur, Alabama. The DUTCH QUALITY HOUSE® brand is comprised of value-added products that are used in our nation's largest restaurant chains, by some of the country's largest institutional food manufacturers, and in individually owned restaurants throughout the nation. Our heritage in providing our business partners with products that they need is strong---and is just another way we strive to be the best for the best. In conjunction with our fresh poultry processing facilities, we have hatcheries, feed mills and extensive grow-out farms throughout the Southeast to support our vertically integrated operations. Many of the fresh products that are processed at our fresh processing facilities are used to support the production needs for our DUTCH QUALITY HOUSE® branded products.
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