As chairman of Perdue Farms, the Eastern Shore company started in 1920 by his grandfather, Arthur Perdue, Jim Perdue oversees one of the Eastern Shore’s biggest and best-known businesses. Perdue took ...

He died Thursday after a brief illness, the company said Friday. He was 84. At the time of his death, Perdue was chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors of Perdue Farms Inc., ...

BALTIMORE — Frank Perdue, who transformed a backyard egg business into one of the nation's largest food companies and became a popular television pitchman for his brand of chickens, has died. He was ...

BALTIMORE -- Frank Perdue, who built one of the world's biggest chicken companies by appearing in TV commercials that seemed to play off his remarkable resemblance to the product he sold, has died at ...

The first thing you may notice is their yellow skin. The chickens of Perdue Farms have come to roost in Wisconsin grocery store meat counters for the first time, and they don't look like every other ...

SALISBURY, Md. - During a ribbon cutting for the "Miss Madeline" barge on Friday, WBOC spoke exclusively with Perdue Farms Chairman Jim Perdue about the recent uncovering of PFAS contamination in ...

Jim Perdue, chairman of Perdue Farms, represents the third generation of leadership in a family business that has transformed the agricultural landscape. In 1983, Perdue answered his father’s call to ...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Frank Perdue, who transformed a backyard egg business into one of the nation's largest food companies and became a popular television pitchman for his brand of chickens, has died. He ...

BALTIMORE - To many people, Frank Perdue looked as if he was born to sell chickens. But it wasn't until he put his face on TV commercials that his father's backyard egg business rapidly grew into one ...

SALISBURY, Md. Frank Perdue, who transformed a backyard egg business into one of the nation's largest poultry processors using the folksy commercial slogan, "It takes a tough man to make a tender ...