Seaboard history

In 1919 he purchased the Imperial Brewing Company of Kansas City and converted it to a milling operation.

1928: Bresky purchases Rodney Milling and incorporates his business under that name.

1938: Ismert-Hinke Milling is acquired.

1966: Acquires its first overseas operation, a flour mill in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in a joint venture with Continental Grain Co.

Shortly after this, more moves were made abroad, with mills built in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1968, and Georgetown, Guyana, a year later.

Back in the United States, Seaboard built a mill in Culpepper, Virginia, in 1970 and enlarged it just two years later.

In the face of increasing competition, the company made a dramatic strategic shift in early 1982 when it sold its American flour mills to Cargill, Inc., for $40 million.

1983: Forms Seaboard Marine Ltd. to ship various Seaboard fruits and vegetables around the globe

1984: Seaboard purchases Central Soya's poultry division.

In 1986 Mount Dora Farms, Inc. was established in Latin America to produce fruits and vegetables.

1989: Founds Transcontinental Capital Corp.

As it had done with poultry, Seaboard quickly began to invest in processing pork, constructing its first feeder pig facility and feed mill in Northeast Colorado in 1991.

1992: Construction begins on a state-of-the-art pork processing plant in Guymon, Okla., which is supported by feed mills it builds in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas.

The Minnesota pork processing plant closed in 1994.

1996: Acquires an interest in Tabacal Agroindustria, an Argentine producer and refiner of sugar cane and citrus

Two years later, in 1998, Seaboard Corporation purchased a controlling interest in a winery in Bulgaria.

In 1999 Seaboard announced it was spending $144.5 million to buy 50 percent of Dominican Republic power-generating company Haina, which owned five electrical plants.

SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, appointed by President George W. Bush, enacted a policy of giving corporations credit for reporting their misdeeds, the Los Angeles Times reported in October 2001.

Seaboard was the only United States operation planning to add physical plant capacity, one expected to begin operation in late 2002.

The activity produced 23 percent of the corporation's total 2004 revenue.

"Seaboard Sells Trading Stake," Journal of Commerce Online, May 24, 2005.

2006: H. Harry Bresky retires as CEO, but remains chairman.

2007: H. Harry Bresky dies and his son, Steven Bresky, inherits a 74 percent stake in Seaboard Corp., becoming chairman, CEO and president.

Seaboard once again entered the poultry business with the acquisition of half ownership in Butterball, LLC in 2010.

In 2011 Seaboard Corporation made the Fortune 500 for the first time in company history.

2015: Forms joint venture with Triumph Foods to build a new pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa

In 2018, Seaboard acquired the West-African agri-food group Mimran, increasing its flour and feed milling capacity with approximately 15 percent to over 24,000 metric tons per day.

Steven J. Bresky, his son, then served as Seaboard Corporation's President and CEO and its Director and Chairman of the Board until his death in 2020.