Butterball, LLC · Garner, NC United States

Come Thanksgiving when you bow your head to give thanks, remember to thank Butterball, LLC. The company is a vertically-integrated turkey processor (meaning it does it all, from egg to table). Butterball produces fresh and frozen turkey products (including many of the T-Day birds that grace America's tables) for the retail grocery and foodservice industries throughout the US and about 20 other countries. It boasts the world's largest turkey-processing plant (675,000 square feet), located in Mt. Olive, North Carolina. It also operates breeder, growing, and research farms; diagnostic labs; feed mills; and hatcheries. Butterball is a joint venture between Smithfield Foods (which owns 49%) and Maxwell Farms (51%). To read the full description, subscribe now.