Pilgrim's Pride idles plant to reduce chicken supply, raise prices: thefoodtimes

Pilgrim's Pride idles plant to reduce chicken supply, raise prices

06-30-2009

As demand for chicken declines, bankrupt Pilgrim's Pride idles Georgia processing plant that provided 1,000 jobs, $300,000 in annual county tax revenues. It also shuns prospective buyers, saying that selling to competitor wouldn't reduce chicken supply. In town, poultry insurer braces for drop in business; hospital girds for more uninsured patients. Most big chicken companies reducing output; chicken prices have increased since Pilgrim's closed its plants.

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Tags: Alan Carter, Amick, Amick Farms LLC, Batesburg, Bert Brantley, Bobby Jindal, chicken processing, Department of Economics, Don Jackson, Douglas, Douglas-Coffee County Economic Development Authority, Douglas-Coffee County Industrial Authority, Foster Farms, Georgia, Georgia Department of Labor, Gold Kist Inc., JoAnne Lewis, Ken Goldman, Little Debbie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, meatpacker, Nancy L. Rose, OSI Industries, Paul N. Silverstein, Pilgrim's Pride, S.C., Sidney L. Cottingham, Sonny Perdue, Walt Dockery