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Top 25 Meat and poultry processors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 526 meat and poultry processors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 41,008 professional contacts across them, including 5,821 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers meat and poultry processors headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest meat and poultry processors based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8,129 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Smithfield Foods is an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,959 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1985, Koch Foods started as a one-room chicken de-boning and cutting operation with 13 employees.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,909 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wayne-Sanderson Farms is an industry leader and the nation’s third-largest poultry producer, serving customers, consumers and communities with integrity, leadership and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,905 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mountaire Farms has been family owned and operated since 1914, setting the standard in service and quality in minimally processed chicken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,874 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Seaboard Foods, we create the most sought-after pork.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “National Beef Packing Company, LLC, is America’s Premier Beef Company® Since National Beef® opened the doors to our first processing plant in 1992, we have forged alliances and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 974 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “West Liberty Foods, headquartered in West Liberty, Iowa is a recognized leader in the food industry and one of North America’s top protein processors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 757 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Case Farms is a fully integrated poultry farming and processing group of dedicated individuals comprised of over 5,600 employees and 475 grower farms that work together to produce…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 709 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Triumph Foods is one of the leading pork processing facilities in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brakebush Brothers, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 637 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headquartered in Augusta, GA, FPL Food is the number one privately owned processor of fresh beef products and ground beef selections in the Southeast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 585 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leading food service operations, restaurant chains, retailers, and other customers today demand innovative thinking and premium products from their suppliers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 569 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Lopez Dorada, we are passionate about providing the highest quality protein products to our global customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 566 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, CTI is a culinary-driven company that offers a diverse range of custom food solutions to the food service, retail, industrial, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 318 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AlaTrade Foods is a precision poultry processor specializing in fresh and frozen boneless chicken solutions for further processors, kettle cook operations, and chain restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hanover Foods Corporation is the largest independently-owned food processor in the eastern United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since the 1930s, Harris Ranch has remained focused on producing the best tasting, most wholesome products for customers across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Golden West Food Group is a diversified food manufacturing company with meat processing and distribution of beef, chicken, pork, seafood, entrees, appetizers, dips, and many other…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 236 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Colorado Premium is the premier protein processor in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 219 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1949, BrucePac has been producing high quality protein products for retail, foodservice, and industrial customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 201 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1935, Standard Meat Company has offered custom cut, carefully crafted products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ed Miniat LLC, part of the Miniat Family of Companies, is located in South Holland, IL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thomas Foods International USA is a leading importer of globally sourced protein products and a leader in providing the highest quality protein products throughout North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prestage Foods of Iowa, a square foot state-of-the-art pork processing operation located in Eagle Grove, Iowa, is the newest addition to the Prestage Farms family of companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: meat and poultry processors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names meat and poultry processors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of meat and poultry processors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name meat and poultry processors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Meat and poultry processors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 526 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among meat and poultry processors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “meat and poultry processors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names meat and poultry processors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among meat and poultry processors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,821 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names meat and poultry processors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many meat and poultry processors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 526 meat and poultry processors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Smithfield Foods, headquartered in Smithfield, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most meat and poultry processors?
Chicago leads with 23 headquartered companies, followed by Dallas (7) and Houston (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,821 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 526 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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