by - September 18, 2020 1:44 pm
Editor’s note: Story update with comments from Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the Arkansas Department of Health. An error in where COVID-19 cases are located by the Arkansas Department of Health…
by - April 29, 2019 5:45 pm
Sales of poultry in the first quarter of 2019 for Industrias Bachoco – the parent company of Fort Smith-based OK Foods – declined 6.7% compared with the same quarter in…
by - July 25, 2017 11:29 am
Randy Meyers has been promoted from executive vice president of sales and marketing to chief operating officer of OK Foods. The COO position is newly-created and is a result of…
by - July 19, 2017 3:00 pm
Mexico-based Industrias Bachoco, the parent company of OK Foods in Fort Smith, has acquired Albertville Quality Foods (AQF), a value-added meat company with foodservice, retail and national accounts. Details of…
by - September 8, 2016 1:18 pm
Fort Smith-based OK Foods is donating 500,000 pounds of chicken to the River Valley Regional Food Bank. It’s a donation valued at almost $1.5 million, and is estimated to provide…
by - September 7, 2016 8:06 pm
Fort Smith-based OK Foods has won in a recent breach of contract suit filed against the company by poultry grower Earl Oldham of Stigler, Okla. Oldham sued the company for…
by - March 7, 2016 6:27 pm
With industry wage pressures growing, Fort Smith-based OK Foods is raising its base pay rate to $10 per hour impacting more than 2,500 workers in its poultry processing plants. The…
by - November 20, 2014 4:44 pm
A May 1 vote against unionizing at the Fort Smith-based OK Foods processing facility in Heavener, Okla., has been thrown out by the National Labor Relations Board after it had…
by - June 24, 2014 6:59 pm
Fort Smith-based OK Foods has denied accusations leveled by the National Labor Relations Board that it interfered with a union vote at its Heavener, Okla., food processing plant. The accusations…
by - June 23, 2014 2:57 pm
A failed May 1 vote on whether to unionize workers at an OK Foods facility in Heavener, Okla., could be dismissed by the National Labor Relations Board after it claimed…
by - May 2, 2014 1:15 pm
A union vote at an OK Foods processing facility in Heavener, Okla., failed by a narrow margin Thursday (May 1), with workers voting 26-29 on a question of whether to…
by - March 31, 2014 6:38 pm
A vote on unionization at one of OK Foods' local facilities will move forward on May 1. According to Anthony Elmo of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local…
by - March 10, 2014 11:12 am
A vote on unionization at O.K. Foods that was expected to take place in late 2013 is now likely to take place later this year, according to a union that…
by - February 26, 2014 5:43 pm
O.K. Foods is under new leadership after the resignation of CEO Paul Fox, but the company is keeping quiet as to why Fox may have left the company. Donna Miller…
by - December 19, 2013 4:12 pm
Officials with Fort Smith-based OK Foods announced Thursday (Dec. 19) the withdrawal by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) of its petition for a union representation election filed…
