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Marshall Durbin company history timeline

1940

In 1940, he purchased a three-story building in downtown Birmingham.

1946

In 1946, modernization and expansion brought the plant's capacity to 2,000 birds per hour, and a branch office was opened in Mobile.

1953

In 1953, the Mobile processing plant was enlarged to produce 600,000 pounds of dressed broilers per week.

1958

A new 180,000 chicks per week hatchery was built in Haleyville, Alabama in 1958.

1964

A new hatchery was built in Chatom, Alabama in 1964 with a 200,000 chicks per week capacity.

1966

In 1966, a transportation office and shop were built in Delmar, Alabama to serve the North Alabama complex.

1968

In 1968, the company purchased the production facilities of the Merchants Company at Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

1969

In 1969, he became the fourth person inducted into the Alabama Poultry Hall of Fame.

1970

In 1970, the company enlarged the Hattiesburg plant and doubled the capacity of the rendering plant.

1974

1974 would be a tremendous year of growth for the company, with a new feed mill, complex office and garage being built in Waynesboro, Mississippi while a 285,000 bird per week processing plant was opened in Canton, Mississippi.

1977

The Chatom hatchery's production was doubled in 1977 with the installation of new equipment.

1979

A new laboratory in Jackson and a remodeling of the Hattiesburg rendering plant were completed in 1979.

1997

In 1997, Marshall Durbin, Sr. was posthumously inducted into the University of Alabama Business Hall of Fame.

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