As a pork industry veteran with vast experience and knowledge, Sand will be focused on achieving the company's vision of creating the most sought-after pork in the industry.

March 24, 2018

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Seaboard Foods names Sand president, CEO

Seaboard Corp. has announced that Darwin "Duke" Sand has been named the next president and chief executive officer of Seaboard Foods LLC.

Sand, with more than 30 years of pork industry experience, is a 22-year veteran of Seaboard Foods and has been instrumental in leading the company from a start-up operation in the mid-1990s to a leading connected food system company, producing and selling premium pork products throughout the U.S. and internationally. Sand assumes his new role immediately

Steven J. Bresky, president and CEO of Seaboard, stated: "As a pork industry veteran with vast experience and knowledge, Duke's leadership will advance our uniquely connected food system to help achieve our vision to create the most sought-after pork in the industry. I'm confident that with Duke's energy, expertise and dedication, he will continue to lead us on a path that showcases our commitment to produce wholesome and delicious pork products to customers around the world."

Sand joined Seaboard Foods in 1996 and was instrumental in building the company's reputation as a leading U.S. pork exporter. Prior to becoming Seaboard Foods' senior vice president of sales with responsibilities for all sales and marketing in 2011, he was in charge of Seaboard Foods' pork export business as vice president of international sales. Sand started his career at IBP Inc. in 1987 and held a variety of sales leadership roles until 1996. The Altoona, Iowa, native received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Iowa State University.

Sand will succeed Terry J. Holton, who recently announced his retirement.

Seaboard is a diversified international agribusiness and transportation company, primarily engaged in domestic pork production and processing and cargo shipping.  Overseas, Seaboard is primarily engaged in commodity merchandising, flour and feed milling, produce farming, sugar production and electric power generation.

Seaboard Foods, with headquarters in Merriam, Kan., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Seaboard Corp. and a leading food company connecting every step between farms and family tables around the world. Seaboard Foods employs more than 5,000 people at farm operations in five states and a pork processing plant in Guymon, Okla. Seaboard Foods also owns High Plains Bioenergy, which has biodiesel and compressed natural gas operations.

As part of a uniquely connected food system, Seaboard Foods and its strategic partner, Triumph Foods, jointly own Seaboard Triumph Foods, which has a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, and Daily's Premium Meats, which produces and markets raw and precooked bacon, ham and sausage and has plants in Salt Lake City, Utah; Missoula, Mont., and St. Joseph, Mo. Seaboard Foods markets and sells fresh pork products produced by the Guymon, St. Joseph and Sioux City fresh pork processing plants under the Prairie Fresh and Seaboard Farms brands.

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