Decatur Company Has Securities Offer Seeking to Raise $75M
Cooks Venture filed a notice of an exempt offering of securities with the Securities & Exchange Commission last month. read more >
Cooks Venture filed a notice of an exempt offering of securities with the Securities & Exchange Commission last month. read more >
Cooks Venture, which raises hardy free-ranging chickens at the old Peterson Farms grounds in Decatur (Benton County), has a CEO who’s exhaling again after the threat of avian flu had Arkansas poultry producers holding their breath just weeks ago. read more >
The company has added executives from the Australian poultry producer Ingham's and the New Jersey-based startup Do Good Foods. read more >
The free-ranging super birds of Decatur (Benton County) haven’t suffered a single case of avian flu, but they’ve had their wings clipped, metaphorically. read more >
Cooks Venture, the company raising heirloom chickens in Decatur with a genetic line going back to Arkansas poultry pioneer Lloyd Peterson, announced a new $10 million investment on Wednesday. read more >
Matthew Wadiak isn’t sure President Trump’s executive order keeping meat plants like Tyson Foods’ in operation despite employee COVID infections is such a great idea, but he’s always been out of step for a chicken processor. read more >
Cooks Venture, a company building a breed of super chickens on the old Peterson Farms grounds in Benton County, announces a $4 million round of capital investment and the hiring of a CFO. read more >
Blake Evans, the last CEO of Peterson Farms before selling all broiler operations to Simmons Foods Inc. of Siloam Springs in 2008, has hitched the family legacy to a new partnership: a startup headed by a co-founder of the meal-order service Blue Apron. read more >
Matthew Wadiak, co-founder of the meal service Blue Apron, is thinking outside the box — and outside the cage. read more >
