Pilgrim's Pride to Switch Exchange Listing from NYSE to NASDAQ

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation

today announced that it will voluntarily transfer its stock exchange listing from The New York Stock Exchange to The NASDAQ Global Select Market, an exchange of The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc.

. The Company currently expects that its common stock will commence trading on the NASDAQ on December 28, 2012 and will continue to be listed under the ticker symbol "PPC."