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| Excel is a leading processor of fresh beef, pork and fully prepared meats that are sold around the world. Based in Wichita, Kansas, Excel employs about 20,000 people in eight countries. Excel has processing facilities and sales offices in the United States, Canada and Australia, and international business offices in Australia, China, Honduras, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Excel evolved through a series of business combinations dating to 1936, when Excel Packing Company was formed in Chicago. In 1941, the business moved to Wichita. In 1970, Excel was incorporated as Kansas Beef Industries. The company's primary area of expertise was cutting sides of beef into wholesale cuts of meat. In 1974, Kansas Beef Industries merged with Missouri Beef Packers. Missouri Beef was incorporated in 1964 and developed its expertise in cattle slaughter. |
The name of the newly merged company became MBPXL-MBP for Missouri Beef Packers and XL for Kansas Beef Industries' original name of Excel. In 1979, MBPXL was acquired by Cargill, Incorporated, and became a wholly owned subsidiary. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cargill is an international processor, marketer and distributor of agricultural, food, industrial and financial products. In 1982, the MBPXL name was changed to Excel. Excel entered the pork processing business in 1987 when it acquired plants from Hormel in Ottumwa, Iowa, and Oscar Mayer in Beardstown, Illinois. Excel opened its first plant outside of the United States in 1989, when operations began at the Cargill Foods beef facility in High River, Alberta, Canada. It began operations in Australia in 1991. |
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