Seaboard Corporation

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Seaboard Corporation (AMEX: SEB) is a diversified conglomerate that operates worldwide a number of agriculture and ocean transport businesses. In United States the company mainly engages in pork production and processing. Internationally Seaboard also has operations in cargo shipping, commodity merchandising, sugar and citrus production and flour milling. Company maintains a fleet of 7 owned and approx. 23 chartered container vessels. The company also operates as an energy producer in the Dominican Republic generating electricity from diesel engines mounted on two large barges.

Seaboard has over 9500 employees, mostly in U.S., Latin America and Africa. The company, which is based in Shawnee Mission, Kansas City is a Fortune 1000 firm with net sales exceeding $2.0 billion per year. Seaboard itself is a majority owned subsidiary of Seaboard Flour, which is owned by the Bresky family.

[edit] Seaboard subsidiaries

Seaboard Foods
Seaboard Marine
Seaboard Commodity Trading and Milling
- National Milling Company of Guyana, Guyana
Other Divisions
- Ingenio y Refineria San Martin del Tabacal SRL, Sugar and Citrus, Argentina
- Transcontinental Capital Corp. (Bermuda) Ltd., Dominican Republic
- Boyar Estates S.A., Bulgaria
- Chestnut Hill Farms Honduras, S. de R.L. de C.V., Honduras
- Mount Dora Farms Inc., Miami, Florida
- Seaboard Transportation, Inc., Shawnee Mission, Kansas