Open the new dry sausage production facility
Delivered by the deadline
AI-assessed · human review in progress Found and assessed by AI from the cited sources. Shown with its evidence; it is not counted in any Kept Score until confirmed.
- Announced
- 26 Nov 2019
- Due
- 31 Oct 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“we expect the new facility to be operational in early fiscal 2021.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Hormel's filings indicate the new dry sausage facility in Omaha, Nebraska, was part of capital expenditure projects in fiscal 2021, and subsequent reports confirm it provided new production capacity.
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A Hormel Foods 10-Q filed 2022-03-08
“Products such as Columbus® grab-and-go charcuterie also benefited from new production capacity in the Nebraska facility.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -4.7% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (7 Mar 2022 to 10 Mar 2022). What this measures
Checked 18 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift -189 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 26 Nov 2019
Deadline 31 Oct 2021 (“early fiscal 2021”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 24 Nov 2020
Deadline 25 Apr 2021 (“during the first half of the year”) · wording firm
“We are also on track to open our new state-of-the-art dry sausage production facility for Columbus® charcuterie products during the first half of the year.”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Facility opening
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Open
- Deliverable
- dry sausage production facility
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- Medium
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “no_evidence”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the second check.
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