Article: Tyson Foods Announces Letter of Intent for Sale of Turkey Operations and Albert Lea, MN. Facility

SPRINGDALE, Ark., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) and MCMI Food Company announced today that they have signed a letter of intent for MCMI, in conjunction with certain members of the current Willow Brook Foods management team, to acquire Willow Brook Foods and a processing facility in Albert Lea, Minnesota from Tyson.

Willow Brook Foods is a vertically-integrated turkey producer and processor, based in Springfield, Missouri. It was owned by Hudson Foods, and was a part of Tyson's Hudson acquisition, which was completed in January of 1998.

The primary product of the processing plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota, which was also part of the Hudson ...

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