A. Wayne Lord.
Poultry group Pilgrim's Pride Pilgrim's Pride Corp. NYSE: PPC, headquartered in Pittsburg, Texas, is the largest chicken producer in the United States and Puerto Rico and the second-largest chicken producer in Mexico. They employ approximately 56,000 people with sales of $5. has announced the appointment of
A. Wayne Lord as its vice president of governmental affairs, a newly
created post. Lord will be responsible for the company's
governmental affairs functions, and will represent Pilgrim's Pride
nationally and at state level in the company's Southeastern and
Eastern operations. With more than 28 years in the agriculture industry,
specializing in strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and export
management, Lord has worked for the American Peanut Council and was
president of Southco Commodities for 12 years. He also has connections
with Gold Kist Gold Kist NASDAQ: GKIS is a large chicken producing company in the United States south. It was founded in 1933 by D.W. Brooks, a University of Georgia agronomy instructor as the Cotton Producers Association , the poultry producer which Pilgrim's Pride has just
acquired, joining that company in 1979. He was vice president of
corporate relations at Gold Kist, serving in that post for nearly three
years.
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