Company Overview
Smithfield Foods is a U.S.-based global food company and the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer. Employing over 55,000 people around the world, they have farms, facilities, and offices in the United States, Europe and Mexico. Through their Operation 4000! initiative they’ve committed to increasing the number of veterans in their workforce to 4000, ten percent of their total U.S. workforce, by the end of 2020!
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