Cal-Maine


Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. is a fresh egg producer, established in 1969 and based in Jackson, Mississippi, in the United States. Its eggs are sold mostly in mid-Atlantic, midwestern, southeastern, and southwestern states. It accounts for approximately a quarter of US egg consumption.
Cal-Maine is a public company trading on the NASDAQ, headed by its founder, Fred R. Adams, Jr., whose family owns a controlling interest.
On May 1, 2012, Cal-Maine announced a joint venture between the cooperative Eggland's Best and Land O'Lakes. Cal-Maine was the largest franchisee of Eggland's Best and one of the company's 13 shareholders. As of 2011, 16 percent of Cal-Maine egg sales were Eggland's Best.
In 2018, an investigation at Lake Wales Farm by the animal rights group Animal Recovery Mission indicated that chickens suffer inhumane living conditions and abuse by employees.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, in response to the Covid-19 outbreak Cal-Maine increased egg prices 300% triggering at least one lawsuit that alleges the price for a dozen eggs increased from $1 to $3.44 despite no interruption to its supply chain.

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