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{{#badges:FoodRightsNetwork}}'''Perdue Farms, Inc.''' is the United States' third largest poultry producer, based in Salisbury, Maryland, and founded in 1920. It is a privately-held company.<ref name="BW">[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=199889 Perdue Farms, Incorporated], ''Bloomberg BusinessWeek'', accessed April 2013.</ref> As such, it does not always make its annual revenue public, but the company claimed it had $4.6 billion in annual sales in July 2011.<ref>Perdue Farms, Incorporated, [http://web.archive.org/web/20110719003345/http://www.perdue.com/company/about/index.html About], corporate website, archived by the WayBack Machine on July 19, 2011, accessed April 2013.</ref> The salary of the company's chairman and CEO, Dr. James A. Perdue, is also not public.