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JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is a meat processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian multinational JBS S.A. The subsidiary was created when JBS entered the U.S. market in 2007 with its p
Swift meat packing plant in La Plata, Argentina, c. 1920
1916 advertisement for lard
Gustavus Franklin Swift
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Gustavus Franklin Swift Sr. was an American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death. He is credited wit
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…include Hormel Foods, Cargill, Smithfield Foods, National Beef, and Tyson Foods. Swift & Company operations can be traced back to 1855, when 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a butchering operation in Eastham, Massachusetts. Its early origins on Cape Cod led later to locations in Brighton (in Massachusetts), and…
Swift in 1903
Swift mausoleum at Mount Hope Cemetery
An early refrigerator car design, circa 1870. Hatches in the roof provided access to the ice tanks at each end of the car.
A view of the Swift Brands Sioux City, Iowa, meat-packing plant, circa 1917. All but one of the refrigerator cars in the photo bear the markings of the Swift Refrigerator Line.