Editor's note: Calendar year 2007was challenging for the meat and poultry industry. As companies struggled to increase sales, margins and earnings, they further streamlined their operations, adjusted to rising energy and grain costs, developed more targeted new products, formed joint ventures and strategic alliances, re-analyzed export opportunities, pulled off major acquisitions and divestitures, and invested in the intensifying green movement, among other things.rnThe 2008 executive outlook report includes input from industry giants such as Tyson Foods and Hormel Corp., as well as perspectives from medium-size firms including Chicago Meat Authority and DeVault Foods.
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