Segment Reporting

9 Months Ended

Jun. 29, 2019

SEGMENT REPORTING

We operate in four reportable segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. We measure segment profit as operating income (loss). Other primarily includes our foreign operations in Australia, China, South Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Thailand and the United Kingdom, third-party merger and integration costs and corporate overhead related to Tyson New Ventures, LLC.

Beef: Beef includes our operations related to processing live fed cattle and fabricating dressed beef carcasses into primal and sub-primal cuts and case-ready products. Products are marketed domestically to consumer products and food retailers, foodservice distributors, restaurant operators, hotel chains and noncommercial foodservice establishments such as schools, healthcare facilities, the military and other food processors, as well as to international export markets. This segment also includes sales from allied products such as hides and variety meats, as well as logistics operations to move products through the supply chain.

Pork: Pork includes our operations related to processing live market hogs and fabricating pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal cuts and case-ready products. Products are marketed domestically to consumer products and food retailers, foodservice distributors, restaurant operators, hotel chains and noncommercial foodservice establishments such as schools, healthcare facilities, the military and other food processors, as well as to international export markets. This segment also includes our live swine group, related allied product processing activities and logistics operations to move products through the supply chain.

Chicken: Chicken includes our domestic operations related to raising and processing live chickens into, and purchasing raw materials for, fresh, frozen and value-added chicken products, as well as sales from allied products. Our value-added chicken products primarily include breaded chicken strips, nuggets, patties, tenders, wings and other ready-to-fix or fully cooked chicken parts. Products are marketed domestically to consumer products and food retailers, foodservice distributors, restaurant operators, hotel chains and noncommercial foodservice establishments such as schools, convenience stores, healthcare facilities, the military and other food processors, as well as to international export markets. This segment also includes logistics operations to move products through our domestic supply chain and the global operations of our chicken breeding stock subsidiary.

Prepared Foods: Prepared Foods includes our operations related to manufacturing and marketing frozen and refrigerated food products and logistics operations to move products through the supply chain. This segment includes brands such as Jimmy Dean®, Hillshire Farm®, Ball Park®, Wright®, State Fair®, as well as artisanal brands Aidells®, Gallo Salame®, and Golden Island®. Products primarily include ready-to-eat sandwiches, sandwich components such as flame-grilled hamburgers and Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks and processed meats. Products are marketed domestically to consumer products and food retailers, foodservice distributors, restaurant operators, hotel chains and noncommercial foodservice establishments such as schools, convenience stores, healthcare facilities, the military and other food processors, as well as to international export markets.

We allocate expenses related to corporate activities to the segments, except for third-party merger and integration costs and corporate overhead related to Tyson New Ventures, LLC, which are included in Other.

Information on segments and a reconciliation to income before income taxes are as follows (in millions):



	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	June 29, 2019			June 30, 2018			June 29, 2019			June 30, 2018
Sales:
Beef	$	4,157		$	3,993		$	11,967		$	11,560
Pork	1,323			1,197			3,674			3,745
Chicken	3,331			2,973			9,853			8,929
Prepared Foods	2,089			2,132			6,265			6,571
Other	356			75			776			245
Intersegment	(371		)	(319		)	(1,014		)	(997		)
Total sales	$	10,885		$	10,051		$	31,521		$	30,053



	Three Months Ended							Nine Months Ended
	June 29, 2019			June 30, 2018				June 29, 2019				June 30, 2018
Operating income (loss):
Beef	$	270		$	318			$	731			$	666
Pork	42			67				237				285
Chicken	230			189				531			^(a)	692
Prepared Foods	229			238				739				613			^(b)
Other	10		^(c)	(15		)	^(c)	(15		)	^(c)	(43		)	^(c)
Total operating income	781			797				2,223				2,213

Total other expense	57			74				258				225

Income before income taxes	$	724		$	723			$	1,965			$	1,988

(a) Chicken operating income includes $13 million in Keystone Foods purchase accounting and acquisition related costs for the nine months ended June 29, 2019.

(b) Prepared Foods operating income includes a $79 million impairment net of a realized gain associated with the divestiture of non-protein businesses for the nine months ended June 30, 2018.

(c) Other operating results include $24 million in Keystone Foods purchase accounting and acquisition related costs for the nine months ended June 29, 2019, and other third-party merger and integration costs and corporate overhead of Tyson New Ventures, LLC of $10 million and $5 million for the three months ended June 29, 2019, and June 30, 2018, respectively, and $15 million and $13 million for the nine months ended June 29, 2019, and June 30, 2018, respectively.

The Beef segment had sales of $111 million and $112 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively, and sales of $301 million and $311 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively, from transactions with other operating segments of the Company. The Pork segment had sales of $246 million and $188 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively, and sales of $671 million and $620 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively, from transactions with other operating segments of the Company. The Chicken segment had sales of $15 million and $19 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively, and sales of $42 million and $66 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively, from transactions with other operating segments of the Company. The aforementioned sales from intersegment transactions, which were at market prices, were included in the segment sales in the above table.

The following tables further disaggregate our sales to customers by major distribution channels (in millions):



	Three Months Ended
	June 29, 2019
	Consumer Products^(a)		Foodservice^(b)		International^(c)		Industrial and Other^(d)		Intersegment			Total
Beef	$	1,966	$	1,050	$	648	$	382	$	111		$	4,157
Pork	365		110		243		360		245			1,323
Chicken	1,369		1,330		177		440		15			3,331
Prepared Foods	1,178		823		26		62		—			2,089
Other	—		—		356		—		—			356
Intersegment	—		—		—		—		(371		)	(371		)
Total	$	4,878	$	3,313	$	1,450	$	1,244	$	—		$	10,885



	Nine Months Ended
	June 29, 2019
	Consumer Products^(a)		Foodservice^(b)		International^(c)		Industrial and Other^(d)		Intersegment			Total
Beef	$	5,628	$	3,124	$	1,849	$	1,065	$	301		$	11,967
Pork	1,036		294		678		995		671			3,674
Chicken	4,204		3,767		489		1,351		42			9,853
Prepared Foods	3,643		2,367		70		185		—			6,265
Other	—		—		776		—		—			776
Intersegment	—		—		—		—		(1,014		)	(1,014		)
Total	$	14,511	$	9,552	$	3,862	$	3,596	$	—		$	31,521

(a) Includes sales to consumer products and food retailers, such as grocery retailers, warehouse club stores, and internet-based retailers.

(b) Includes sales to foodservice distributors, restaurant operators, hotel chains and noncommercial foodservice establishments such as schools, convenience stores, healthcare facilities and the military.

(c) Includes sales to international markets related to internationally produced products or export sales of domestically produced products.

(d) Includes sales to industrial food processing companies that further process our product to sell to end consumers and any remaining sales not included in the Consumer Products, Foodservice or International categories.