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Top 25 Meat processing plants based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 426 meat processing plants headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 12,555 professional contacts across them, including 2,798 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers meat processing plants 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 processing plants based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,196 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 2 | 974 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 3 | 709 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 4 | 637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 5 | 620 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In order to align our business operations, Farmland Foods is now part of Smithfield Foods!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greater Omaha is a single source supplier offering the highest quality beef in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Caviness Beef Packers has been family owned and operated for over “60 Years” and is currently led by 2nd and 3rd generation family members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Central Valley Meat Co Inc is a full line beef harvesting operation, processing over 1500 beef cattle a day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 11 | 236 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 12 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 17 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empire Packing is a service company operating in the grocery industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Holly Poultry is a further processor of poultry and wholesale distributor of meat, poultry, fish and other proteins.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jensen Meat Company, founded in 1958 by Reggie Jensen, is a leading processor of quality ground beef products for the food service distribution, restaurant, retail and school…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Recognized as a global manufacturer of highly engineered food processing equipment and systems, Marlen designs and builds innovative solutions to process meat, poultry…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our roots run deep, first taking hold in Chicago's fabled meatpacking district in 1860.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Martin Foods has been a leading further processor and food distributor since 1944.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Together we deliver Integrity, Quality, Selection, and Value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Catelli Brothers Family of Foods is the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Located in Chicago’s historic Stockyards, Chicago Meat Authority, Inc.” 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 processing plants. 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 processing plants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of meat processing plants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name meat processing plants. 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 processing plants 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 426 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 processing plants, 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 processing plants”. 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 processing plants), 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 processing plants, 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, 2,798 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 processing plants, 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 processing plants are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 426 meat processing plants 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?
National Beef Packing Company LLC, headquartered in Kansas City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most meat processing plants?
Chicago leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (5) and Omaha (5).
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 2,798 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 426 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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About this data
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.