0001181431-11-050780.txt : 20110930 0001181431-11-050780.hdr.sgml : 20110930 20110930093858 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-11-050780 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20110921 FILED AS OF DATE: 20110930 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110930 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Thamodaran Dhamu R. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001531352 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-15321 FILM NUMBER: 111115821 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 200 COMMERCE STREET CITY: SMITHFIELD STATE: VA ZIP: 23430 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SMITHFIELD FOODS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000091388 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MEAT PACKING PLANTS [2011] IRS NUMBER: 520845861 STATE OF INCORPORATION: VA FISCAL YEAR END: 0427 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 200 COMMERCE STREET STREET 2: EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING CITY: SMITHFIELD STATE: VA ZIP: 23430 BUSINESS PHONE: 7573653000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 200 COMMERCE STREET STREET 2: EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING CITY: SMITHFIELD STATE: VA ZIP: 23430 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LIBERTY EQUITIES CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19710221 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LIBERTY REAL ESTATE TRUST DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19661113 3 1 rrd322755.xml FORM 3: INITIAL FILING X0204 3 2011-09-21 0 0000091388 SMITHFIELD FOODS INC SFD 0001531352 Thamodaran Dhamu R. 200 COMMERCE STREET SMITHFIELD VA 23460 0 1 0 0 Executive Vice President common stock, par value $.50 20284 D common stock, par value $.50 5616.23 I shares held in 401k of reporting person common stock, par value $.50 391.72 I shares held in 401k of reporting persons's spouse common stock, par value $.50 1000 I shares in cusdotial trust for daughter Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 20.57 2018-06-14 common stock 20000 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 15.43 2017-06-21 common stock 20000 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 13.30 2016-07-06 common stock 15000 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 23.75 2013-06-16 2018-06-16 common stock 10000 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 32.40 2012-06-11 2017-06-11 common stock 25000 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 31.86 2010-06-02 2015-06-02 common stock 3000 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 30.00 2009-05-24 2014-05-24 common stock 15000 D Of these shares, 5,000 will vest on June 15, 2012, pursuant to the terms of a grant of performance share units granted by the Company under the Company's 2008 Incentive Compensation Plan. The options vest ratably over three years beginning June 14, 2012. The options vest ratably over three years beginning June 21, 2011. The options vest ratably over three years beginning July 6, 2010. /s/ Michael H. Cole, as attorney-in-fact 2011-09-30 EX-24.POA 2 rrd289270_326633.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd289270_326633.html 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
       Know all men by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Michael H. Cole and Darcy G. McKenzie, or either of them, with full power to each of them to
act alone, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, to:
(1)	execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf and submit to the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments
thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and
passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports
required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or
regulation of the SEC promulgated thereunder;
(2)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer
and/or director of Smithfield Foods, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Company"), any and
all Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder;
(3)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may be
necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and
execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form or
amendment with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
(4)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing that, in
the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by
such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney
shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact
may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.
       The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper
to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all
intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full
power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-
fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The
undersigned acknowledges that neither the Company nor any of these attorneys is assuming,
nor shall any of them be responsible for, the undersigned's obligation to comply with Section
16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the rules and regulations of the SEC
promulgated thereunder.
       This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no
longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned
in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this ______day of September, 2011.
       					___________________________
						 Dhamu Thamodaran