IPO Profile

Gold Kist Holdings
244 Perimeter Center Parkway, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30346
Tel: 770-393-5000
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Ticker: GKI
Stock Exchange: New York Stock Exchange
Shares Issued: 12,000,000.00
Price Offered: $11.00
Amount Raised: $132,000,000.00

Underwriters:
Merrill Lynch & Co.
J.P. Morgan
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Piper Jaffray
Harris Nesbitt

Company Description:
We are the third largest integrated broiler company in the United States, accounting for over 9% of chicken, or broiler, meat produced in the United States in 2003. In addition, we believe we are the largest producer of private label broiler products in the United States. We operate a fully-integrated broiler production, processing and marketing business. Our broiler production operations include nine broiler complexes located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Each complex operates in a different geographic region and includes pullet (young hens less than 26 weeks old grown as replacement hens for breeding) and breeder (hatching egg) flocks, broiler flocks, one or more hatcheries, one or more feed mills and one or more poultry processing plants. Three complexes also have rendering plants to process by-products.