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Names in the News
Oakland, Calif.-based Niman Ranch,
Inc. has received a substantial capital
investment that it plans to use to focus
on its core business, as well as to expand the supply of natural and organic

beef, pork and lamb.
In other company news, Niman hired
a new c.e.o., Jeff Swain. Additionally,
Jeff Tripician was named executive
vice president of sales and marketing,

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John Tarpoff joined the company as
vice president of beef, Eric Silvius
was named C.F.O., and David Shenson was named senior vice president
of prepared meats.
Dr. J. B. Penn recently resigned as under secretary for farm and foreign agricultural services at the U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture to become the first chief
economist for Deer & Co., Moline, Ill.
Robert DeMartini has been appointed
group vice president of consumer products for Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale,
Ark. He was formerly senior vice president and general manager of the
grooming division for The Gillette Co. DeMartini will report to
Bill Lovette, senior group vice
president of poulDeMartini
try and prepared
foods, and will oversee operations, marketing and sales for all divisions within
Tyson's consumer products business.
Harvest Meat Co., National City, Calif., and Sherwood Food Distributors,
Detroit, recently announced they have
been selected by Boulder, Colo.-based
Wild Oats Markets, Inc. to manage its
nationwide protein distribution needs.
Sanderson Farms, Inc., Laurel, Miss.,
has announed the following appointments: Luke Hammonds, manager
of training; Rocky Ford, building superintendent; and Stephanie Butts,
training manager at the corporate office. Hammonds is a certified Master
Trainer and has been with the company since 2001. Ford has been with the
company since 2004 and most recently
was an egg supervisor at Laurel Production. Butts worked at a law fi rm
and software company in Jackson,
Miss., before recently joining Sanderson Farms.

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