Cargill Meat Solutions is one of the numerous platforms of Cargill

Cargill

Cargill, Incorporated is a privately held, multinational corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2011, number 13 on the Fortune 500,...

 Incorporated. The corporate office is located in Wichita, Kansas

Wichita, Kansas

Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...

. The meat products included in operation are pork, turkey, beef, further processing and case ready.

Bill Rupp is the executive vice president of Cargill Meat Solutions.

Food Safety

In October 2007, Cargill recalled nearly 845,000 pounds of ground beef

Ground beef

Beef mince, ground beef, hamburger meat , hamburg or minced meat is a minced meat food, made of beef finely chopped by a mincer. It is used in many recipes including hamburgers and cottage pie...

 after an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 occurred in North Carolina.

In October 2002, the Emmpak meat packing plant recalled 2.8 million pounds of ground beef, also linked to an E. coli breakout. Emmpak is owned by the Excel Corporation, a subsidiary of Cargill.

Brands

• Angus Pride (beef)
• Circle T Beef (beef)
• Excel (beef and pork)
• Good Nature (pork)
• Honeysuckle White (turkey)
• Meadlowland Farms (beef)
• Preferred Angus (beef)
• Ranchers Registry Angus (beef)
• Rumba (beef and pork)
• Shady Brook Farms (turkey)
• Sterling Silver (beef and pork)
• Stoneside (pork)
• Tender Choice (pork)
• Tender Ridge Angus (beef)
• Valley Tradition (beef)