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Swift & Company is an American food processing company a wholly owned subsidiary of JBS S.A. (BM&F Bovespa:JBSS3), a Brazilian company that is the world's largest processor of fresh beef and pork, with more than US$40 billion in annual sales as of 2012. It is also the largest beef processor in Australia. Swift & Company is based in Greeley, Colorado.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Contact us )〕 Its competitors include Cargill, Smithfield Foods, and Tyson Foods. In 2007, it was acquired by Brazilian JBS S.A.. ==History== The Swift meat packing company was first founded in 1855 by 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift in Eastham, Massachusetts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.eastham-ma.gov/Public_Documents/EasthamMA_WebDocs/about )〕 Its early origins on Cape Cod, led to later Brighton, MA, Albany, NY, and Buffalo, NY locations, Swift and Company was incorporated in 1875 in Chicago. In addition to meatpacking, Swift sold various dairy and grocery items, including Swiftning shortening, Allsweet margarine, Brookfield butter, cheese under the Brookfield, Pauly, and Treasure Cave brands, and Peter Pan peanut butter. Swift began selling frozen turkeys under the Butterball brand in 1954. Gustavus Swift also championed the refrigerated railroad car. In the 1960s, Swift expanded into other fields, including insurance and petroleum, and formed the holding company Esmark in 1973. Two years later, Esmark bought International Playtex from Meshulam Riklis' Rapid-American Corporation. Esmark left the petroleum business in 1980, selling Vickers Petroleum to Mobil, while Swift's fresh-meat business was spun off as a separate company, Swift Independent Packing Company (SIPCO), the same year. Esmark went on to purchase Norton Simon Inc. in 1983 before being purchased by Beatrice Foods the next year. ConAgra purchased 50% of Swift in 1988 and the remaining portion in 1990, the same year ConAgra bought Beatrice Foods. In 2009, JBS USA acquired 63% of Pilgrim's Pride〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.jbssa.com/Brands/Chicken/default.aspx )〕 Chicken Company and shortened the name to simply 'Pilgrim's'. JBS subsequently increased its ownership share to 75.3%. On October 18, 2012, JBS USA announced management control to run XL Foods Lakeside facility for 60 days with exclusive option to buy XL Foods Canada and US operations. On January 14, 2013, JBS completed the purchase of the XL Foods Brooks facility and feedyard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「JBS USA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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