Mar-Jac Poultry Gainesville, Georgia

Mar-Jac is an independent chicken processor in Gainesville, Georgia. Though a small local company, its plant is typical, employing hundreds and processing more than 100 million birds a year. There is a Pilgrim's Pride plant in town too, and Pro View Foods employs another 500 people in town in poultry processing, including at a plant next to Mar-Jac. Around 8.6 billion chickens are slaughtered in the country annually, and Georgia leads the nation in chicken production.