27 Facts About Seaboard Corporation

Seaboard Corporation is a diverse multinational agribusiness and transportation conglomerate with integrated operations in several industries.

Internationally, Seaboard is primarily engaged in commodity merchandising, grain processing, sugar production and electrical power generation.

The parent company, Seaboard Corporation is based in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kansas.

The name changed to Seaboard Allied Milling Corporation, and stock was traded under the symbol SEB.

Seaboard Corporation later constructed mills in Sierra Leone, Guyana, Liberia and Nigeria.

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Seaboard Corporation built its current corporate headquarters in Merriam, Kansas in 1980.

In 1982 Seaboard sold its domestic flour milling division to Cargill, Inc and changed its name to Seaboard Corporation, while continuing its milling operations outside the US Harry and Seaboard took noticeable steps to diversify the company, initially by entering the poultry industry and by further international investments.

Seaboard Corporation utilized its marine transportation division to ship its produce from South America to Miami.

Today Mount Dora Farms, Seaboard Corporation's produce division, specializes in processing jalapenos in Honduras to ship to the US and European markets.

Also during the decade of the '80s, Seaboard Corporation purchased two baking companies in Puerto Rico and ventured into shrimp farming in Ecuador and the Honduras.

The Puerto Rico bakeries were sold in 1998, and after a brief entry into salmon farming, Seaboard Corporation eventually sold off all seafood investments in the early 2000s.

The company's pork division, Seaboard Corporation Foods, acquired a pork processing plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota.

In 1992 Seaboard Corporation began construction on a state of the art pork processing facility in Guymon, Oklahoma.

Two years later, in 1998, Seaboard Corporation purchased a controlling interest in a winery in Bulgaria.

Seaboard Corporation added Daily's® Premium Meats, a bacon processor with two processing plants in Salt Lake City, Utah and Missoula, Montana to its integrated operations in 2005.

Seaboard Corporation has an exclusive agreement to market Triumph Foods pork products utilizing a processing plant in St Joseph, Missouri.

Seaboard Corporation entered the poultry business with the acquisition of half ownership in Butterball, LLC in 2010.

In 2011 Seaboard Corporation made the Fortune 500 for the first time in company history.

In 2018, Seaboard Corporation acquired the West-African agri-food group Mimran, increasing its flour and feed milling capacity with approximately 15 percent to over 24,000 metric tons per day.

Seaboard Corporation was a pioneer in the vertical integration of the US pork industry.

Since 2008 Seaboard Corporation Foods has been producing biodiesel from the animal by-products of Guymon's processing plant.

High Plains Bioenergy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seaboard Corporation Foods, produces more than 30 million gallons annually.

Seaboard Corporation bought a defunct ethanol plant in Hugoton Kansas and converted it to a renewable diesel plant.

In 2009 Seaboard Corporation Foods opened, Seaboard Corporation Foods de Mexico, to produce fresh boneless hams, using mostly bone-in hams from Guymon's US facility.

Each of Seaboard Corporation's segments is separately managed, and each was started or acquired independent of the other segments.

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Seven consecutive years, Seaboard Corporation Marine has been recognized by the Jamaican Exporters Association for its growth and development of Jamaica's export sector.

In 1996, Seaboard Corporation bought the sugar plantation and refinery San Martin de Tabacal, in Salta, Argentina, and immediately fired 6,000 workers.