Close the sale of the whole-bird turkey business to Life-Science Innovations
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 18 Feb 2026
- Due
- 30 Apr 2026
- Delivered
- 24 Apr 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“the transaction expected to close by the end of the Company's second quarter of fiscal 2026”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Hormel Foods completed the sale of its whole-bird turkey business to Willmar Poultry Innovations, a subsidiary of Life-Science Innovations, on April 24, 2026, which falls within the second quarter of fiscal 2026.
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A Hormel Foods 10-Q filed 2026-05-28
“On April 24, 2026, the Company completed the sale of its whole-bird turkey business to Willmar Poultry Innovations, LLC, a subsidiary of Life-Science Innovations” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +10.3% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (27 May 2026 to 1 Jun 2026). What this measures
Checked 18 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- whole-bird turkey business
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Depends on
- Counterparty
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: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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