industry poultry farming founded 1947 incorporated 1955 1 founder d.r. sanderson headquarters laurel mississippi revenue 2.77 billion 1 number of employees 11 000 1 website www.sandersonfarms.com sanderson farms is the third largest poultry producer in the united states and produces 9.375 million chickens per week . it is the only fortune 1000 company headquartered in mississippi . 1 history edit the company was founded in laurel mississippi in 1947 as sanderson brothers a purina seed and feed store . 2 references edit a b c d history values & mission . sanderson farms . retrieved 19 may 2015 . gillette becky 8 april 2012 . mississippi based sanderson farms is country s third largest poultry producer . mississippi business journal . access date requires url help this food and or confectionery corporation or company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sanderson farms & oldid 744473232 categories 1947 establishments in the united statespoultry companiesfood company stubshidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no urlall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages polski edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 12 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view