Pilgrim's Pride is a multi-national corporation and employs about 38,000 people with sales of $8.1 billion in 2012, and has operations in 12 states, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

[4] Today, Pilgrim's Pride is vertically integrated, meaning the company has its own divisions for every process from "egg to table".

[5] On October 12, 2002, Pilgrim's Pride recalled 27.4 million pounds of sliced deli poultry after finding a strain of Listeria monocytogenes in the drain of one of their facilities.

[6][7][8] In 2003, Pilgrim's Pride acquired Pierce Chicken (formerly owned by ConAgra Foods and before that part of Hester Industries).

[10] On July 20, 2004, PETA released a video showing cruelty to chickens at a Pilgrim's Pride plant in West Virginia.

[11] The video showed Pilgrim Pride employees strangling, stomping, and flinging live chickens into a wall.

[citation needed] On December 4, 2006, Pilgrim's Pride announced the successful acquisition of Gold Kist (formerly the third largest chicken company) for $21.00 a share.

[13] On April 16, 2008, after an investigation US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided plants in Batesville, Arkansas; Live Oak, Florida; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Mount Pleasant, Texas; and Moorefield, West Virginia.

[15][needs update] On May 27, 2014, the company announced a $6.4 billion cash and debt offer to acquire the shares in Hillshire Brands.

[18] In February 2021, Pilgrim's Pride agreed to pay a $107 million fine on charges of bid rigging and price fixing.

As a result, Pilgrim's Pride closed its corporate offices in Texas and Georgia and moved its headquarters to Greeley, Colorado.

On the same day, 75 to 85 cars filled with workers drove around the plant, honking horns and demanding over a loudspeaker that it be closed for two weeks.