Archer Daniels Midland Company is one of the largest agricultural processors in the world. Serving as a vital link between farmers and consumers, we take crops and process them to make food ingredients, animal feed ingredients, renewable fuels and naturally derived alternatives to industrial chemicals.

Pilgrim's Pride Completes Acquisition of Gold Kist

Integration Efforts Underway for Industry-Leading Chicken Company

PITTSBURG, Texas, Jan 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (NYSE: PPC) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Gold Kist Inc. (Nasdaq: GKIS), following its recently completed successful tender offer, which created the world's leading chicken company.
"We are extremely pleased that the final step in our success ...

NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies.

The Company creates innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. The NVIDIA® brands include NVIDIA GeForce®, NVIDIA Tesla™, NVIDIA GoForce®, NVIDIA Quadro®, and NVIDIA nForce®. These product families are transforming visually-rich and computationally-intensive applications such as video games, film production, broadcasting, industrial d ...

Universal Corporation (NYSE: UVV), headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, was founded in 1918. The Company is one of the world's leading leaf tobacco merchants and processors, based on volumes handled by its subsidiaries and affiliates, and has operations in agri-products. Universal conducts business in more than 35 countries and employs more than 25,000 permanent and seasonal workers.

Universal's business includes selecting, buying, shipping, processing, packing, storing, and financing of leaf ...

Dean Foods is one of the leading food and beverage companies in the country. We are the largest processor and distributor of milk and other dairy products. Through our WhiteWave Foods division, we are also the nation\'s leading manufacturer of soymilk, organic milk and other organic foods. We operate more than 100 plants in the United States and employ more than 26,000 people.