Business Segment And Geographic Reporting

12 Months Ended

Dec. 25, 2011

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Business Segment And Geographic Reporting

BUSINESS SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC REPORTING

We operate in one reportable business segment, as a producer and seller of chicken products we either produce or purchase for resale in the US, Puerto Rico and Mexico. We conduct separate operations in the US, Puerto Rico and Mexico; however, for geographic reporting purposes, we include Puerto Rico with our US operations. Corporate expenses are allocated to Mexico based upon various apportionment methods for specific expenditures incurred related thereto with the remaining amounts allocated to the US.

During the current year, we announced organizational changes that resulted in the merger of our former Other Products segment into our Chicken segment. Data related to our former Other Products segment, which included primarily non-chicken products sold through our distribution centers, table eggs, animal feed and offal, is no longer reported directly to the chief operating decision maker. This information is now reported through chicken operations management. We reclassified prior year segment disclosures to conform to the new segment presentation.

Net sales to customers by country of origin and long-lived assets are as follows:

	2011		2010		Transition Period		2009
	(In thousands)
Net sales to customers by country of origin:
United States	$	6,778,727	$	6,237,057	$	1,466,705	$	6,569,652
Mexico	756,971		644,572		136,029		518,403
Total	$	7,535,698	$	6,881,629	$	1,602,734	$	7,088,055

	December 25, 2011		December 26, 2010
	(In thousands)
Long-lived assets(a):
United States	$	1,157,410	$	1,278,100
Mexico	84,342		80,036
Total	$	1,241,752	$	1,358,136

(a) For this disclosure, we exclude financial instruments, deferred tax assets and intangible assets in accordance with ASC 280-10-50-41, Segment Reporting. Long-lived assets, as used in ASC 280-10-50-41, implies hard assets that cannot be readily removed.

The following table sets forth, for the periods beginning with 2009, net sales attributable to each of our primary product lines and markets served with those products. We based the table on our internal sales reports and their classification of product types.

	2011		2010		Transition Period		2009
US chicken:	(In thousands)
Prepared chicken	$	2,135,337	$	2,262,107	$	535,810	$	2,294,576
Fresh chicken	3,160,429		2,834,972		663,418		3,113,062
Export and other chicken by-products	808,038		581,303		134,976		656,276
Total US chicken	6,103,804		5,678,382		1,334,204		6,063,914
Mexico chicken	720,333		615,433		127,557		487,785
Total chicken	6,824,137		6,293,815		1,461,761		6,551,699
Other products:
US	674,923		558,675		132,500		505,738
Mexico	36,638		29,139		8,473		30,618
Total other products	711,561		587,814		140,973		536,356
Total net sales	$	7,535,698	$	6,881,629	$	1,602,734	$	7,088,055