Loveland Colorado

January 10, 2006 Starting in February, Five Rivers Cattle Feeding Company will call the Centerra Development in Loveland Colorado home. The world’s largest cattle feeding company is relocating its corporate headquarters to the award-winning Loveland community, and will occupy 9,600 square feet at 3855 Precision Drive, next to the new headquarters facility of Heska Corporation.

Five Rivers formed in May 2005 as an independent joint venture between ContiGroup Companies and Smithfield Foods, Inc. Currently operating 10 feed yards throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho, and Kansas, Five Rivers manages a feeding capacity of over 800,000 cattle. The corporate office at Centerra will initially bring 27 new jobs to the area.

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Five Rivers considered several locations in the Front Range, including Greeley, Boulder, and Longmont. They chose Centerra because its regional location will allow the company to serve its broad base of customers throughout Colorado and the western United States, as well as provide a convenient central location for its employees.  Centerra’s immediate access to the interstate also provides the company quick access to Denver International Airport.  According to Luke Lind, Director of Marketing Development for Five Rivers, location was not the only factor. “McWhinney Enterprises was able to deliver a finished space faster than other options we were considering, and they had a good variety of office choices for us at Centerra.”

Five Rivers is the first tenant in the 32,000 square foot Flex Office building, a new type of office product available at Centerra.  With interest high for Flex Office space, McWhinney plans on developing more of the product type.

About Five Rivers Cattle Feeding Company “We look forward to being a larger part of the Northeast Colorado agricultural economy, and are already in the process of strengthening our ties to producers and communities in the region,” says Five Rivers’ CEO Mike Thoren.  “Our operation is fairly de-centralized, with a lot of the jobs and decision making located in the feedyards themselves.”  Five Rivers has four feedyards in Colorado.  These yards are located near Gilcrest, Kersey, Yuma, and one in the Southeast corner of the state at Lamar.

HTML clipboard In August, 2005, Five Rivers donated a research facility it owned in Lamar to Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences. The gift, valued at $2.5 million, establishes the Southeastern Colorado Research Center, which will become a powerhouse for animal food safety, nutrition, environmental impact and management research within the Department of Animal Sciences. It is the second largest gift in the department’s history.