Seaboard Corporation Common Stock
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Seaboard Corporation Common Stock (SEB) is a diversified company headquartered in Merriam, Kansas that operates across agriculture, energy, and ocean transportation worldwide. Founded in 1918, it is best known as a long established conglomerate that combines food production, commodity trading, shipping, and power generation under one corporate umbrella, working with subsidiaries across several continents.
The company runs through several segments. The Pork segment produces and sells pork products to further processors, food service operators, grocery stores, and distributors, and it also sells hogs. The Commodity Trading and Milling segment sources, transports, and markets wheat, corn, soybeans, soybean meal, and other commodities, and it produces wheat flour, maize meal, manufactured feed, and oilseed crush products. The Turkey segment produces and processes turkey products for retail stores, food service outlets, and industrial buyers, and it exports to foreign markets. The company also produces and sells sugar and alcohol.
The remaining segments cover transportation and energy. The Marine segment provides cargo shipping services, owns and leases dry, refrigerated, and specialized containers and related equipment, and operates a terminal along with an off-port warehouse and cargo storage. The Liquid Fuels segment owns biodiesel plants and terminal facilities, while the Power segment runs as an independent power producer that generates electricity for the grid in the Dominican Republic. Through this mix of food, commodity, marine, and energy businesses, Seaboard Corporation (SEB) operates as a broadly diversified enterprise serving customers and markets around the world.