Description
Seaboard Corporation is a diverse multinational agribusiness and transportation conglomerate with integrated operations in several industries. In the United States, the company mainly engages in pork production and processing and ocean transportation. Internationally, Seaboard is primarily engaged in commodity merchandising, grain processing, sugar production and electrical power generation. The parent company, Seaboard Corporation based in Merriam, Kansas, operates Seaboard Foods, Seaboard Marine, Seaboard Overseas & Trading Group (SOTG), Tabacal Agroindustria, Transcontinental Capital Corporation, Ltd. (TCCB), and Mount Dora Farms and additionally has 50% non-controlling interest in Butterball, LLC. Its principal operating divisions are Pork, Commodity Trading and Milling, Marine, Sugar and Power.
Seaboard Corporation's subsidiaries and affiliates employ more than 23,000 people in more than 45 different countries, mostly in the U.S., Latin America and Africa. With net sales of approximately $5.6 billion annually, Seaboard Corporation is #481 on the 2018 Fortune 500 list.[2] Stock is traded on the NYSE MKT under the symbol SEB.
