Sanderson Farms, Inc. (NASDAQ:SAFM) announced today that sites
located in Smith and Wood Counties, Texas, have been tentatively
selected for construction of a new feed mill, hatchery, poultry
processing plant and waste water treatment facility, subject to the
contingencies discussed below. These facilities will comprise a
state-of-the-art poultry complex with the capacity to process 1.25
million birds per week for retail chill pack customers. At full
capacity, the complex will employ approximately 1,700 people, will
require 80 contract growers, and will be equipped to process and
sell approximately 375 million pounds of dressed poultry meat
annually at full production.
Sanderson Farms expects to invest approximately $200 million in
the new Texas complex and anticipates that associated contract
growers will invest an additional $135 million in poultry
production facilities. The Company expects to begin construction of
the facilities during summer 2017, with initial operations of the
new complex to begin during the first fiscal quarter of 2019.
Commencement of construction of the new complex is subject to
completion of tax abatement and incentive agreements with public
subdivisions and the state of Texas and obtaining final required
permits from appropriate agencies.
According to Joe F. Sanderson, Jr., chairman and chief executive
officer of Sanderson Farms, Inc., the selection of these sites
followed a thorough due diligence process. “We are grateful for the
cooperation from the economic development and governmental
officials in Tyler, Mineola and Lindale, Texas; Wood and Smith
Counties; and the State of Texas,” said Sanderson. “We believe this
expansion will enhance our ability to drive revenues and earnings
and allow us to continue our record of building long-term value for
our shareholders. The additional capacity of 1.25 million birds per
week represented by the new complex will provide new marketing
opportunities for the Company for retail grocery customers. We are
pleased that our recent financial performance has put us in a
position to continue to grow our Company.”
Sanderson Farms, Inc. is engaged in the production, processing,
marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen and minimally
prepared chicken. Its shares trade on the NASDAQ Global Select
Market under the symbol SAFM.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended.
Forward-looking statements are based on a number of assumptions
about future events and are subject to various risks, uncertainties
and other factors that may cause actual results to differ
materially from the views, beliefs, projections and estimates
expressed in such statements. These risks, uncertainties and
other factors include, but are not limited to those discussed
under “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2016, and the
following:
(1) Changes in the market price for the Company’s finished
products and feed grains, both of which may fluctuate
substantially and exhibit cyclical characteristics typically
associated with commodity markets.
(2) Changes in economic and business conditions, monetary and
fiscal policies or the amount of growth, stagnation or recession in
the global or U.S. economies, either of which may affect the value
of inventories, the collectability of accounts receivable or the
financial integrity of customers, and the ability of the end
user or consumer to afford protein.
(3) Changes in the political or economic climate, trade
policies, laws and regulations or the domestic poultry
industry of countries to which the Company or other companies in
the poultry industry ship product, and other changes that might
limit the Company’s or the industry’s access to foreign
markets.
(4) Changes in laws, regulations, and other activities in
government agencies and similar organizations applicable to the
Company and the poultry industry and changes in laws, regulations
and other activities in government agencies and similar
organizations related to food safety.
(5) Various inventory risks due to changes in market conditions
including, but not limited to, the risk that market values of live
and processed poultry inventories might be lower than the cost of
such inventories, requiring a downward adjustment to record the
value of such inventories at the lower of cost or market as
required by generally accepted accounting principles.
(6) Changes in and effects of competition, which is significant
in all markets in which the Company competes, and the effectiveness
of marketing and advertising programs. The Company competes with
regional and national firms, some of which have greater financial
and marketing resources than the Company.
(7) Changes in accounting policies and practices adopted
voluntarily by the Company or required to be adopted by
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
(8) Disease outbreaks affecting the production, performance
and/or marketability of the Company’s poultry products, or the
contamination of its products.
(9) Changes in the availability and cost of labor and
growers.
(10) The loss of any of the Company’s major customers.
(11) Inclement weather that could hurt Company flocks or
otherwise adversely affect its operations, or changes in global
weather patterns that could impact the supply of feed grains.
(12) Failure to respond to changing consumer preferences.
(13) Failure to successfully and efficiently start up and run a
new plant or integrate any business the Company might
acquire.
(14) Unfavorable results from currently pending litigation and
proceedings, or litigation and proceedings that could arise in the
future.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the
Company. Each such statement speaks only as of the day it was made.
The Company undertakes no obligation to update or to revise any
forward-looking statements. The factors described above cannot
be controlled by the Company. When used in this press release or in
the related conference call, the words “believes,”
“estimates,” “plans,” “expects,” “should,” “could,” “outlook,” and
“anticipates” and similar expressions as they relate to the
Company or its management are intended to
identify forward-looking statements. Examples of
forward-looking statements include statements of the Company’s
belief about future earnings, grain prices, supply and demand
factors, growth plans, production capacity and other industry
conditions.
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Sanderson Farms, Inc.Mike Cockrell,
601-649-4030Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer
Sanderson Farms (NASDAQ:SAFM)
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