The Officers are: Robert Allerton, President; Jas. S.
McFadyen, Vice-President; John Anderson, Treasurer and
General Manager; Geo. N. McDonald, Secretary. .
SWIFT & COMPANY
Although Swift & Company was not incorporated until
1885, the business out of which it grew was founded by
Gustavus F. Swift in 1868. From the time Mr. Swift made
the first successful refrigerated shipments of dressed meats to
the East, during the seventies, Swift products have been
regularly sold in Pittsburgh.
Swift & Company is an Illinois corporation, owned by
more than 47,000 stockholders, and capitalized at $150,000,-
000. The growth of the company, from a modest beginning
has been made possible largely because a portion of the
profits has been re-invested in the business year after year
since its founding. To-day it is one of the largest American
packing companies, with a nation-wide organization, and has
more than 50,000 employes. Last year the company’s sales
amounted to $775,000,000.
This company slaughters cattle, sheep, and hogs, and
markets the resulting meat and by-products in various stages
of manufacture. The company also assembles and distributes
produce, (butter, eggs, poultry, and cheese), manufactures
oleomargarine, soap, gelatin, glue, fertilizer, etc., and refines
and markets cottonseed oil and other vegetable shortenings.
Swift & Company has 26 meat packing plants located in
various parts of the United States. Most of these are located
in the principal livestock producing regions. The company
also operates produce plants where eggs are sorted and
prepared for market, where poultry is milk fed and standard-
ized according to weight and quality, and where butter is
manufactured in modern and sanitary creameries.
Swift products are distributed through more than 400
branch houses and a large number of ‘““car routes” in this
country and through numerous branches and agencies abroad.
The branch house is a wholesale marketing establishment
located in the larger towns and cities, from which Swift pro-
ducts are sold to retailers. Carloads of meat, produce, and
