| LC control no. | n 84004487 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Swift & Company |
| Variant(s) | Swift & Co. Swift and Company Swift & Company (Chicago, Ill.) |
| See also | Absorbing corporate body: JBS (Firm) Successor: JBS Swift & Company |
| Beginning date | 1885 |
| Ending date | 2007 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Chicago (Ill.) Greeley (Colo.) |
| Field of activity | Meat industry and trade Meat--Packing Animal products Refrigerator cars |
| Found in | Soap talk, July 30, 1906, surrogate: t.p. (Swift & Company) Britannica online, viewed April 14, 2021 (Gustavus Swift (Gustavus Franklin Swift), American businessman, 1839-1903; founder of the meatpacking firm Swift & Company and promoter of the railway refrigerator car for shipping meat; opened butcher shop in Eastham, Massachusetts; became partner, as cattle buyer, of James A. Hathaway, a Boston meat dealer, in 1872, in 1875 he transferred his headquarters to Chicago; hired an engineer to design a refrigerator car; in 1877 he shipped the first refrigerator carload of fresh meat to the East; soon afterward he left Hathaway, formed partnership with his brother, and in 1885 incorporated the firm Swift & Company, with himself as first president; in 1902, with J.O. Armour and Edward Morris, he formed the National Packing Company, the "Beef Trust", subsequently dissolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1905) U.S. Cong. Senate. Comm. on the Judiciary. Concentration in agriculture and an examination of the JBS/Swift acquisitions, hearing ... 2008: t.p. (JBS/Swift) p. 40 (JBS Swift) Nexis, Nov. 13, 2008 (JBS Swift & Company; a subsidiary of Brazilian beef giant JBS; in 2007, Swift's owners accepted the purchase offer of JBS, Brazil's leading beef company ... the acquisition made newly named JBS Swift the largest beef company in the world) Encyclopedia of Chicago (website), ©2005, Swift & Co., viewed April 14, 2021 (Gustavus F. Swift started to work in the beef business in Massachusetts as a teenager in the 1850s; in 1875 he began buying cattle in Chicago to send to his family's butcher operations back East; by 1886, when the company slaughtered more than 400,000 a year, Swift employed about 1,600 people; between 1887 and 1892, new packing plants were opened in Kansas City, Omaha, and St. Louis; by 1908, Swift plants across the country slaughtered about 8 million animals, and owned a fleet of nearly 5,000 refrigerated railcars; Swift stopped slaughtering in Chicago in 1953, but its corporate headquarters remained there; in 1973, by which time meat had become only one of its businesses, Swift became part of Esmark Inc., a holding company; during the 1980s, Esmark's meat division was spun off and moved to Texas; Swift no longer has a presence in Chicago; from the early 1990s through the early 2000s, Conagra owned Swift's operations, with Swift & Co.'s divisional headquartered located in Greeley, Colorado) |
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