Tyson Foods Announces Addition of Olivia Tyson, John R. Tyson to Board of Directors

SPRINGDALE, Ark. –  Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) today announced the appointment of Olivia Tyson and John Randal Tyson as new directors, effective May 8, 2025. Olivia will serve on the Compensation and Leadership Development and Technology Committees and John Randal will serve on the Strategy and Acquisitions and Technology Committees.

Both have been involved in the company for many years. They will be the fourth generation of Tyson family members to sit on the board of the company founded by their great-grandfather, John W. Tyson.

Olivia Tyson has served as President of the Tyson Family Foundation since 2018. Under her leadership, the foundation has made significant investments in Northwest Arkansas, where the company is based, including improving food security, arts education and entrepreneurship pipelines in disadvantaged communities. Olivia also serves on the Creative Arkansas Cultural Hub and Exchange Board of Directors and The Momentary Council. Additionally, she is a co-founder of Tricky Knot, an entertainment development and financing company based in New York. The company has invested in and supported films that have appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival and South by Southwest.

John R. Tyson is an executive, investor and non-profit board member who brings several years of direct industry experience to the board. He previously served in multiple executive roles at the company, including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. John has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard University and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to his tenure as a Tyson Foods executive, he worked in investment banking as a private equity and venture capital investor. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

“Barbara and I are proud to welcome Olivia and John Randal to the board,” said Chairman John H. Tyson. “With their leadership, I am confident that we will continue to uphold the values of generations of the Tyson family and serve as stewards of the company for the long-term benefit of our team members, our communities, and our shareholders. We have an industry-leading management team and an exceptional group of outside independent directors with the skillsets and experiences to sustain Tyson’s future success. I am confident about our strategy and excited to step into a new chapter of working with the fourth generation of Tyson family members to help oversee the business.”

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About Tyson Foods, Inc.

Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) is a world-class food company and recognized leader in protein. Founded in 1935 by John W. Tyson, it has grown under four generations of family leadership. The Company is unified by this purpose: Tyson Foods. We Feed the World Like Family™ and has a broad portfolio of iconic products and brands including Tyson®, Jimmy Dean®, Hillshire Farm®, Ball Park®, Wright®, State Fair®, Aidells® and ibp®. Tyson Foods is dedicated to bringing high-quality food to every table in the world, safely, sustainably, and affordably, now and for future generations. Headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, the company had approximately 138,000 team members as of September 2024. Visit www.tysonfoods.com. 

Danone is equipping 6,500 smallholder dairy farmers with biodigesters to reduce methane emissions

Danone and Sistema.bio have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to equip 6,500 smallholder dairy farmers with biodigesters by 2030, supporting methane reduction on-farm. This innovative solution will be deployed in several geographies where Danone operates, starting with Mexico, India, and Morocco. Addressing the methane challenge in dairy farming

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after its release.

Dairy companies can play a meaningful role in reducing methane. This is because methane emissions from agriculture and livestock make up approximately 40% of global methane emissions, with dairy cattle representing an estimated 8% of these emissions.

In 2023, Danone was the first food company to align with the Global Methane Pledge to reduce 30% of methane emissions from fresh milk by 2030. Since 2020, we have already made good progress, achieving 25.3% methane reduction across our fresh milk supply.

Equipping smallholder farmers with accessible biodigester technology that benefits both the planet and people
This initiative marks a key milestone in the deployment of climate-smart technologies adapted to smallholder farmers, with positive environmental, economic, and social impact.

Biodigesters are a proven manure management solution to mitigate methane emissions. These systems transform livestock waste into renewable biogas and organic fertilizer. This helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower production costs, and decrease reliance on chemical fertilizers.

By converting organic waste into valuable resources at farm level, biodigesters also reduce the risk of soil and groundwater pollution. The resulting natural fertilizer improves soil health and supports more efficient water use.

The biodigester technology has remarkable advantages, it allows us to use the processed liquid as natural fertilizer in our fields dedicated to cereals and legumes or fodder mix, and it has shown extremely positive results. I truly hope this technology will be made available for all farmers so that more people can benefit from it.

By delivering locally adapted, high-impact solutions, Danone is reaffirming its longstanding commitment to its farming partners. We’re doing so by supporting them to build a more sustainable and resilient agricultural model. 

Nescafé Espresso Concentrated range makes its European debut!

The latest revolution in cold coffee – Nescafé Espresso Concentrated range – has officially arrived in Europe, starting with the UK. Nescafé is the top-selling coffee brand in the UK, and with the Nescafé Espresso Concentrated range, the brand is now enabling cold coffee lovers to craft their very own barista-style iced coffee right from the comfort of their own homes.

Traditionally a tea market, the UK now has more regular coffee drinkers (63%) than tea drinkers (59%), in part due to the versatility of coffee. The Nescafé Espresso Concentrated range empowers consumers to get creative and make their own, personalized iced beverage, be it a creamy iced latte, a robust iced americano, or even mix it in a refreshing twist with lemonade or juice. Because the concentrate easily dissolves in water or milk, coffee drinkers can create café-style beverages in an instant.

"With its growing popularity among younger generations, cold coffee continues to drive growth in the coffee category," said Axel Touzet, Head of Nestlé’s Coffee Brands Strategic Business Unit. "Nescafé Espresso Concentrated captures what young people want in an iced coffee: convenience, personalization and quality. As one of our six 'big bets' for 2025, this latest innovation has significant growth potential, with the ability to generate over 100 million Swiss francs globally in annual sales over the coming years."

Each bottle of Nescafé Espresso Concentrated contains 16 servings and is available in three flavors: vanilla, caramel and classic.

Following its successful launch in the US, Japan, China and Australia, plans are underway to launch Nescafé Espresso Concentrated globally across Asia, Latin America and Europe.

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Icon.com Sold for $12 Million in 6th Largest Publicly Reported Domain Sale of All Time

In a post on LinkedIn today Icon CEO Kennan Davison revealed that his company paid $12 million to acquire the exact match domain for their artificial intelligence based startup. The sale was made by Andrew Miller (ATM Holdings and Managing Director for Hilco Digital Assets) with Lumis.com representing the buyer. This is the 6th highest publicly reported domain sale since we began tracking the market in 2003 and just the latest of many landmark sales that Miller has helped orchestrate (details of which are in a DNJournal Cover Story profile of Andrew that we published in April of last year).

Acquiring this premier asset was a bold and decisive move by Davison who, based on his post, clearly believes in the go big or go home philosophy. Kennan stated, "I know I’m not supposed to say this publicly, but I want to make Icon the greatest company of all time. I want to deliver insane value to our customers. I want to create generational wealth for my team and investors. I want to break the $0 to $100M ARR world record!"

Those are obviously lofty goals but many of the greatest business success stories of all time began with the leader of a company understanding how valuable a great domain name can be to the enterprise in the long run - and acting to acquire it. So, we are in Kennan's corner on this move.

Regarding Icon's product, Davison describes it as "the world’s first AI CMO (Chief Marketing Officer): it can plan, create and run 1000s of winning ads end-to-end." He added, "We're backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and execs of frontier AI labs like OpenAI (ChatGPT), Cognition and Pika

No one knows exactly how the Icon story will play out from from here but, given Davison's stated goals and this key acquisition of Icon.com, he has commanded people's attention, guaranteeing a lot of us will be closely following the company's iconic journey in the months and years ahead.

We will be charting the Icon.com sale and adding it to our YTD Top 100 Sales Chart when our next bi-weekly report comes out Wednesday evening, April 30. The eight-figure blockbuster is more than five times higher than the top 2025 sale prior to Icon.com.