Seaboard Corporation

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Seaboard Corporation

Company type	Public
Traded as	AMEX: SEB Russell 1000 Component
Industry	Agriculture and shipping
Founder	Otto Bresky
Headquarters	Merriam, Kansas , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Robert L. Steer (Director and Chairman of the Board, President and CEO)
Products	pork, commodities, poultry, sugar, produce and electrical power
Number of employees	11,800[1] (2017)
Subsidiaries	Seaboard Foods, Seaboard Marine, Seaboard Overseas & Trading Group (SOTG), Tabacal Agroindustria, Transcontinental Capital Corporation, Ltd.(TCCB), Mount Dora Farms, and 50% non-controlling interest in Butterball, LLC
Website	www.seaboardcorp.com

Seaboard Corporation is a diverse multinational agribusiness and transportation conglomerate with integrated operations in several industries. In the United States, the company mainly engages in pork production and processing and ocean transportation. Internationally, Seaboard is primarily engaged in commodity merchandising, grain processing, sugar production and electrical power generation. The parent company, Seaboard Corporation is based in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kansas. Its subsidiaries include Seaboard Foods, Seaboard Marine, Seaboard Overseas & Trading Group (SOTG), Tabacal Agroindustria, Transcontinental Capital Corporation, Ltd. (TCCB), and Mount Dora Farms. It has 52.5% controlling interest in Butterball, LLC. Its principal operating divisions are pork, commodity trading and milling, marine, sugar, and power. More than 50% of the corporation is owned by members of its founding family, the Breskys.^[2]

Seaboard Corporation's subsidiaries and affiliates employ more than 23,000 people in more than 45 different countries, mostly in the U.S., Latin America and Africa. With net sales of approximately $6.8 billion annually, Seaboard Corporation is #444 on the 2020 Fortune 500 list, having risen almost 40 spots in 2 years.^[3] Stock is traded on the NYSE MKT under the symbol SEB.