Mar-Jac Poultry Alabama

Mar-Jac Poultry Alabama is the Alabama operations of a Gainesville, Georgia-based poultry processor which operates a large processing plant in Jasper, as well as a hatcher and feed mill in Franklin County, truck shops in Jasper and Haleyville, and a distribution center in connection with Butts Foods on Robinwood Drive in Jefferson County.

The company was founded in 1954 by brothers Marvin and Jack McKibbon who sought to industrialize poultry production in Northeast Georgia by providing farmers with an integrated supply of hatchlings, feed, and processing services. They sold the business to a marketing cooperative in 1962. The Herndon, Virginia-based SAAR Foundation acquired the business in 1984 and later came under the umbrella of the Safa Trust, which shares several of the same executives.