Hudson Foods, Inc.

Hudson Foods, Inc., is a vertically integrated producer of chicken and turkey products, including the breeding, hatching, growing, processing and packaging of those product lines. The company also processes and markets beef and pork products. Its products are sold domestically in three primary markets: foodservice, club stores and retail outlets and the company also sells its products internationally to wholesalers primarily in Russia, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America. Hudson's product lines include chicken, turkey, portioned entrees, beef, luncheon meats, and other. The Company's products are marketed nationwide to club store chains, fast-food chains and full service restaurants, retail supermarket chains, prepared food companies, and various institutional customers under the Hudson (R) and other brand names. Chicken accounted for 57% of fiscal 1996 revenues; turkey, 13%; portioned entrees, 13%; luncheon meats, 7%; beef, 7% and other, 3%.