Part one of term paper
Tyson Foods, Inc., is the world's largest fully integrated producer, processor, and marketer of poultry-based food products whose strategy is to "Segment, Concentrate, and Dominate." The firm is vertically integrated (with seven specific levels of activity), contains numerous subsidiaries, has achieved successful acquisitions, operated in a ...

Part two of term paper
... as the lowest-cost producer of value-added products in the market segment. Analysis of Environment, Firm, Current Strategy, Competition Your firm participates in an industry that is characterized as highly vertically integrated and in which (since the 1950s) poultry farmers combined feed mills and processing plants to create efficient operating complexes. Three distinct processed poultry met products are produced: fresh carcass products (i.e., whole bird and parts; formed products; emulsified prod ...