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Article: Two decades of innovation: Carolina Turkeys celebrates its 20th anniversary while promoting its new case-ready venture.
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- The National Provisioner
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Any company that has been in the food-processing industry for 20 years must be doing something right. In the case of Carolina Turkeys, it built a reputation as being a low-cost producer, which is still a focus of the company. But it has never been afraid to change and adapt with the times.
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Carolina Turkeys, headquartered in Mt. Olive, N.C., started as a producer of packaged, whole-body turkeys, but in the last decade, it has been moving further from that category. A few years ago, the company made the decision to stop harvesting 14-pound hens, which is the preferred bird, to produce the typical Thanksgiving dinner-type birds. ...