Seaboard Corporation was founded in 1918 when Otto Bresky bought a flour mill in Atchinson, Kansas. The company became known as Rodney Milling in 1928 when Bresky bought a company by that name and incorporated under it.
In 1959 the company merged with Hathaway Industries to create the new company Seaboard Allied Milling Corporation. Seaboard then began to expand quickly, both nationally and internationally.
Today Seaboard is a diversified agribusiness and transportation firm and has operations in 45 countries in the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean.
In the United States the company sells pork and poultry. Abroad Seaboard trades wheat and soy, operates power plants and feed and flour mills, and grows sugar cane.
Seaboard Corporation is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SEB, is #387 in the Fortune 500, has 11,397 employees, and had $6.55 billion in revenue in 2013.
Seaboard Corporation
Seaboard Corporation was founded in 1918 when Otto Bresky bought a flour mill in Atchinson, Kansas. The company became known as Rodney Milling in 1928 when Bresky bought a company by that name and incorporated under it.
In 1959 the company merged with Hathaway Industries to create the new company Seaboard Allied Milling Corporation. Seaboard then began to expand quickly, both nationally and internationally.
Today Seaboard is a diversified agribusiness and transportation firm and has operations in 45 countries in the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean.
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In the United States the company sells pork and poultry. Abroad Seaboard trades wheat and soy, operates power plants and feed and flour mills, and grows sugar cane.
Seaboard Corporation is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SEB, is #387 in the Fortune 500, has 11,397 employees, and had $6.55 billion in revenue in 2013.
