ATEL is pleased to announce the completion of a multi-million equipment
lease with Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) ATEL provided lease financing for
over-the-road trailers for the delivery of Tyson’s protein products across
the United States.an JBS S.A., and annually exports the largest percentage of beef out of the
United States. With 2010 sales of $28 billion, Tyson Foods is the
second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500, the largest meat
producer in the world, and according to Forbes one of the 100 largest
companies in the United States.The company makes a wide variety of animal-based and prepared products at
its 123 food processing plants. Tyson Foods has approximately 107,000
employees, who work at more than 300 facilities in the United States and
throughout the world. Tyson works with 6,729 contract chicken growers.Tyson Foods is one of the largest U.S. marketers of value-added chicken,
beef, and pork to retail grocers, broad line food service distributors, and
national fast food and full service restaurant chains; fresh beef and pork;
frozen and fully cooked chicken, beef and pork products; case-ready beef
and pork; supermarket deli chicken products; meat toppings for the pizza
industry and retail frozen pizza; club store chicken, beef and pork; ground
beef and flour tortillas. It supplies all Yum! Brands chains that use
chicken (including KFC and Taco Bell), as well as McDonald’s, Burger King,
Wendy’s, Wal-Mart, Kroger, IGA, Beef O’Brady’s, prisons, and small
restaurant businesses.