The company plans to deliver all-natural and organic pre-sliced deli meats sold by Meijer, Kroger and Whole Foods.

Trisha Lavigne will serve as the company's new executive vice president.

Sioux City-based STF is a joint venture between Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods.

The notice stated that 368 employees would be permanently terminated once the Corydon plant closed.

The poultry processor hired Karen Moody as vice president of human resources and Mark Page as vice president of operations.

A growing number of consumers are holding retailers responsible by voting with their dollars for what choices they offer shoppers, especially in the meat case.

Closing the plant will impact 863 employees, along with chicken growers, farmers and truckers, among other people in the poultry supply chain.

The portioned protein snacks offer clean-label ingredients for health-conscious consumers.

In the US Retail channel, the company’s largest, the volume of product sold plummeted 34% to 10.5 million lbs, down from 16.1 million lbs the year before.

Smithfield will be closing 35 Missouri hog farms.