May 22, 2008

Hubbard appoints Jiggs Killgore as director of hatcheries

Press Release

Hubbard has named Jiggs Killgore as their director of hatcheries.

In his new role, Jiggs will be responsible for overseeing and managing all of the Hubbard LLC hatcheries. Jiggs' focus will be to guarantee the supply of quality products from Hubbard's hatcheries to its growing customer base.

Jiggs is one of the foremost experts in incubation in the country and his knowledge is widely respected worldwide. He has spent 21 years in supervision, management and hatchery engineering with Tyson's, a major broiler integrator. For the last 10 years he has been the Director of Hatchery Engineering and Service where he has managed a staff of technical service personnel providing a complete package of expertise to the company's 44 hatcheries.

In addition, he has extensive primary breeder knowledge having spent 9 years in hatchery and breeder management (GP Production Director) with Cobb-Vantress. During this time he was responsible for production and hatcheries and also performed extensive technical support duties for the company overseas. Prior to this Jiggs managed two broiler hatcheries.

Jiggs reports to Mark Barnes, COO of Hubbard LLC, and will be located in Pikeville, Tennessee.