0000100493-01-500031.txt : 20011009 0000100493-01-500031.hdr.sgml : 20011009 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000100493-01-500031 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 425 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20010928 FILED BY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TYSON FOODS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000100493 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: POULTRY SLAUGHTERING AND PROCESSING [2015] IRS NUMBER: 710225165 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0927 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 425 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2210 W OAKLAWN DR CITY: SPRINGDALE STATE: AR ZIP: 72762-6999 BUSINESS PHONE: 5012904000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P O BOX 2020 STREET 2: P O BOX 2020 CITY: SPRINGDALE STATE: AR ZIP: 72765-2020 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: IBP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000052477 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MEAT PACKING PLANTS [2011] IRS NUMBER: 420838666 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1226 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 425 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-06085 FILM NUMBER: 1747123 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 800 STEVENS PORT DR CITY: DAKOTA DUNES STATE: SD ZIP: 57049 BUSINESS PHONE: 4024942061 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 800 STEVENS PORT DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE 832 CITY: DAKOTA DUNES STATE: SD ZIP: 57049 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: IOWA BEEF PACKERS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19701130 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS INC /PRED/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19821109 425 1 ibp425_pr92701.htm TYSON FOODS, INC. SCHEDULE 425 press release 92701 3: name=Template>

Filed by Tyson Foods, Inc.
Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933
and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12(b)
under the Securities Act of 1934
Subject Company: IBP, inc.
Commission File No. 1-6085
September 28, 2001

 

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TYSON FOODS, INC.
SELLS $2.25 BILLION OF SENIOR NOTES

SPRINGDALE, Ark., September 27, 2001 -- Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) today announced that it has agreed to sell in a private placement $2.25 billion of its Senior Notes under Tyson's existing indenture. The Senior Notes will be sold in three tranches: $500 million of 6 5/8% three-year notes, due October 1, 2004, $750 million of 7 1/4% five-year notes, due October 1, 2006 and $1 billion of 8 1/4% notes, due October 1 2011. The net proceeds of the offering will be used to repay in part borrowings outstanding under Tyson's senior unsecured bridge credit agreements providing for aggregate borrowings of up to $2.85 billion.

The Notes will be offered only to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A and to persons outside the United States under Regulation S. The Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or the securities laws of any other place, and, unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the Notes in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.