The story
The company was founded in 1947 by D.R. Sanderson, Sr.
In 1961, the company merged with Miss Goldy’s Chicken company.
In 1987, it became a publicly listed company.
In 2020, the company made more than $3.5 billion, processing more than 4.8 billion pounds of meat. In 2021, the company employed more than 17,000 people.
In August 2021, it was announced that Sanderson Farms was sold to global food corporation Cargill, in a joint venture with Continental Grain Co. for $4.5 billion. The sale will combine Sanderson Farms with Continental subsidiary Wayne Farms to create a new, privately held chicken production company.
In March 2022, the finalization of the sale was uncertain due to the investigations from the United States Department of Justice;
but on July 22, 2022, Wayne Farms merged with Sanderson Farms to form Wayne-Sanderson Farms.
From Wikipedia’s article on Sanderson Farms, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7