text: **Customers and Backlog Orders**
  
  During fiscal year 2003, no customer accounted for more than 10 percent of total Company sales. The five largest customers in each segment make up 
  approximately the following percentage of segment sales: 39 percent of Grocery Products, 39 percent of Refrigerated Foods, 35 percent of JOTS, 
  51 percent of Specialty Foods, and 27 percent of All Other. The loss of one or more of the top customers in any of these segments could have a material 
  adverse effect on the results of such segment. Backlog orders are not significant due to the perishable nature of a large portion of the products. Orders 
  are accepted and shipped on a current basis. 
  
  **Competition**
  
  The production and sale of meat and food products in the United States and internationally are highly competitive. The Company competes with 
  manufacturers of pork and turkey products, as well as national and regional producers of other meat and protein sources, such as beef, chicken and fish. 
  The Company believes that its largest domestic competitors for its Refrigerated Foods segment in 2003 were Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods and 
  ConAgra Foods; for its Grocery Products segment, ConAgra Foods, Dial Corp. and Campbell Soup Co.; and for JOTS, ConAgra Foods and Cargill, Inc. 