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16
COMMUNITIES
Powered by Tyson
Team members recognized for servic
to their communities (from left):
Esteban Barajas
Dakota City, Nebraska
General Production Supervisor
Arlene Standridge
Dardanelle, Arkansas
Human Resources Manager
Felita Bailey
Amarillo, Texas
Production/Safety Committee
Helping others is part of our corporate culture at Tyson
Foods. The Company has taken a leadership role in help-
ing those less fortunate by providing 100 million meals
to the hungry through Share Our Strength®and by send-
ing food to disaster stricken areas. The Company
supports U.S. troops by providing differential pay for
team members serving in the military and by organizing
family support groups and recognition programs.
It is our team members, working on a grass roots level
in their own communities, who make the biggest differ-
ence. With 114,000 team members in 300 facilities in
27 states, it would take this entire annual report to list
all the ways our team members have made life a little
better in their communities, but here are a few things
they accomplished this year.
Team members in Louisa County,
Iowa, celebrated Earth Day with local first-graders by
planting flowers. A group from Gadsden, Alabama,
mentored school children and renovated playground
equipment. The team at Columbia, South Carolina,
held a bake sale to raise money for school supplies.
Tyson’s International division collected toys and
sports equipment for children in the Marshall Islands.
Volunteers from the Norfolk, Nebraska, plant served as
interpreters for parent-teacher conferences.
Groups from Grannis/Broken Bow,
Oklahoma, the Randall Road plant in Springdale,
Arkansas, and the vehicle accounting department at the
corporate offices in Springdale produced cookbooks to
raise money for charity. Team members in 41 plants,
including Amarillo, Texas, Joslin, Illinois and Dakota
Dunes, South Dakota, participated in The Great
American Bake Sale®to help end childhood hunger.
Tyson team members have walked or run hundreds of
miles while participating in Race For The Cure®, Relay
For Life®and Heart Walk™events across the country.
Buena Vista, Georgia, and
Dardanelle, Arkansas, team members have been sending
care packages to fellow team members serving in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Joslin, Illinois, team members sent cards
and letters to more than 250 troops to make them feel
more connected to home.
In these and countless other ways, Tyson team members
help others and contribute to the communities in which
they live and work.