Monfort Transportation Co.

Monfort, Inc., as part of its parent's ConAgra Red Meat Companies subsidiary, is one of the leading meat companies in the United States. During its years as an independent company, Monfort developed into a vertically integrated corporation involved in feeding cattle and lambs; meat packing operations; fabrication operations to produce meat products for hotels, restaurants, institutions, and supermarkets; and the transport and distribution of its products to its customers. Monfort suffered through a number of difficult years in the 1970s and early 1980s, in part because of conflicts between Monfort management and workers. ConAgra acquired Monfort in 1987 and then merged the operations of a former Monfort competitor (Swift Independent Packing Company) into the company, an integration that proved difficult. Monfort has since been beset by a number of other problems & additional worker-management conflicts and lawsuits and fines from government agencies over anti-union tactics and other issues--while at the same time it has attempted to improve its operating results in the highly competitive meat industry through innovative processes and products.

Following the addition of fabrication operations to the Greeley plant, Monfort expanded into lamb processing and increased the plant's capacity a number of times. By 1969 it had processed 645,215 lambs and 331,380 cattle in a single year with sales of $157.6 million. That same year, Monfort expanded vertically once again with the acquisition of its major distributor, Mapelli Brothers Food Distribution Co. The company also added a transportation operation, which was incorporated as Monfort Transportation Co. in 1973. With the exception of the pre-feedlot feeding of cattle, some feedlot feeding of cattle, and both pre-feedlot and feedlot feeding of lambs, Monfort now controlled the entire meat production and distribution process.

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Monfort, Inc., as part of its parent's ConAgra Red Meat Companies subsidiary, is one of the leading meat companies in the United States. During its years as an independent company, Monfort developed into a vertically integrated corporation involved in feeding cattle and lambs; meat packing operations; fabrication operations to produce meat products for hotels, restaurants, institutions, and supermarkets; and the transport and distribution of its products to its customers. Monfort suffered through a number of difficult years in the 1970s and early 1980s, in part because of conflicts between Monfort management and workers. ConAgra acquired Monfort in 1987 and then merged the operations of a former Monfort competitor (Swift Independent Packing Company) into the company, an integration that proved difficult. Monfort has since been beset by a number of other problems & additional worker-management conflicts and lawsuits and fines from government agencies over anti-union tactics and other issues--while at the same time it has attempted to improve its operating results in the highly competitive meat industry through innovative processes and products.

Following the addition of fabrication operations to the Greeley plant, Monfort expanded into lamb processing and increased the plant's capacity a number of times. By 1969 it had processed 645,215 lambs and 331,380 cattle in a single year with sales of $157.6 million. That same year, Monfort expanded vertically once again with the acquisition of its major distributor, Mapelli Brothers Food Distribution Co. The company also added a transportation operation, which was incorporated as Monfort Transportation Co. in 1973. With the exception of the pre-feedlot feeding of cattle, some feedlot feeding of cattle, and both pre-feedlot and feedlot feeding of lambs, Monfort now controlled the entire meat production and distribution process.

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