Tyson-Printing For Chickens

At that point Tyson decided to insist that their production plants order all boxes and labels through Tyson's in-plant. To help meet that goal, Tyson formed a Label Task Force Committee to oversee packaging issues within the company.

"That's when they started to beef up the print shop and started putting some money in here," notes Gayer. "They would go to the plants and say, 'Hey, your labels need to come through the print shop, and if they don't you need to tell me why.' "