Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> March 29, 2004
FRED ADAMS JR. is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cal-Maine
Foods. A native of Mississippi, he graduated from the University of
Southern Mississippi in 1954. He worked for the Ralston Purina Company
in feed sales in Louisiana and Mississippi for three years. In 1957, he
started his own poultry and egg business in Jackson. In 1969, he merged
his business with an egg company in California and an egg company in
Maine. That was the beginning of Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. In 1996, Cal-
Maine Foods, Inc. became a public company with an initial public
offering of its stock. The company is now the number one company in the
production and marketing of fresh shell eggs in the United States. Cal-
Maine has approximately 13% market share in the United States. Its
customers are national and regional retail chain stores and
institutional distributors. Profile
Mr. Adams: Cal-Maine Foods is a company that was organized in 1969. It
was a merger of my company in Mississippi, Louisiana and
