CAL-MAINE FOODS INC

Overview

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. is a U.S. food and agriculture company focused on producing, processing, marketing and distributing eggs and egg products. Its portfolio includes shell eggs, specialty eggs, egg products and prepared egg-based foods. The company describes its purpose as providing nutritious, affordable and sustainable eggs and egg foods.[1][2]

The company’s operations are U.S.-focused: it reports operating in 21 states and serving more than 60,000 retail locations, with more than 4,000 employees. For the fiscal year ended May 30, 2026, it reported net sales of $2.912 billion; FY2026 is the latest annual reporting year identified.[3]+3 [1]+9

Products & services

Cal-Maine Foods sells conventional and specialty shell eggs, including cage-free, organic, brown, free-range, pasture-raised, and nutritionally enhanced varieties. Its branded offerings include Eggland’s Best, Land O’ Lakes, and Farmhouse Eggs.[7]+2

Its prepared-food products include fully cooked egg products, egg bites, patties, omelets, scrambles, specialty wraps, frozen waffles, pancakes, and French toast, including ready-to-heat and ready-to-eat items. Crepini makes Egg Thins® wraps, and Van’s Foods is associated with waffles.[9]+2

Prepared Foods generated $244.8 million, or 8.4% of net sales, in FY2026. The reported figure covers the category as a whole; no product-level sales percentages or detailed egg size and pack specifications were identified.[11] [7]+5

Geographic presence

Cal-Maine Foods’ operations span 21 U.S. states, and the company says it sells products throughout much of the United States. Its listed operating states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.[3][12] As of May 30, 2026, it reported 51 shell-egg production facilities, 52 processing and packaging facilities, 38 pullet farms, 29 feed mills, five food-manufacturing facilities, two breeding facilities and two hatcheries.[12]

The company’s principal executive offices are in Ridgeland, Mississippi.[13][14] As of May 30, 2026, Cal-Maine had 4,909 employees: 4,292 in operations and marketing and 617 in administration, including executive officers; a state-by-state employee distribution was not reported.[15] The available materials describe U.S. sales reach but do not provide a geographic revenue breakdown by state, region or country.[16]+2 [13]+7

Business segments

Cal-Maine Foods reported one operating and reportable segment before revising its structure in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026. Under the new structure, it reports three segments: Conventional Shell Eggs, Specialty Shell Eggs, and Prepared Foods; remaining operations are not reportable segments.[19]+2

For fiscal 2026, Conventional Shell Eggs—production, grading, packaging, marketing, and distribution of conventional shell eggs—generated $1.310 billion, approximately 45.0% of consolidated net sales.[22]+2 Specialty Shell Eggs covers similar activities for specialty products, including cage-free, nutritionally enhanced, organic, brown, pasture-raised, and related eggs; its $1.049 billion in sales represented approximately 36.0%.[25]+3 Prepared Foods primarily comprises production and sales of prepared egg products; its $244.8 million in sales represented approximately 8.4%.[28]+3 The remaining operations—including co-pack shell eggs, egg products, and hard-cooked eggs—accounted for about 10.6% of consolidated sales in the “Other” category; the company does not separately allocate that amount among those activities.[21]+4 [19]+15

Company history

Cal-Maine Foods traces its origins to 1957, when founder Fred R. Adams Jr. began a feed-delivery business in Jackson, Mississippi. It opened a commercial egg-laying operation in Mendenhall in 1958 and built an egg farm in Edwards in 1963. In 1969, Adams Foods merged with Dairy Fresh Products and Maine Egg Farms to form Cal-Maine Foods; the company expanded further in 1972 by acquiring Ralston-Purina’s egg operations.[35]

The company became publicly traded on Nasdaq in 1996. Among its later expansions, it acquired Hudson Brothers in 1999 and Hillandale Farms operations in 2005. In 2012 it acquired egg assets from Pilgrim’s Pride and Maxim Production, and in 2016 it acquired Foodonics International, known as Dixie Egg Company. Cal-Maine reported selling more than one billion dozen eggs for the first time in 2014.[35]

Adolphus “Dolph” Baker became president and CEO in 2010 and chairman in 2012; Sherman Miller succeeded him as president and CEO in 2022, with Baker remaining chairman.[36]+2 In 2024, Cal-Maine acquired ISE America’s egg-production assets. It acquired Echo Lake Foods in 2025, expanding into prepared foods, then acquired Creighton Brothers/Crystal Lake assets and certain Van’s Foods assets in 2026.[39]+5 [35]+13

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• CAL-MAINE FOODS INC — Full financial report (2026 Y)
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