8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): September 22, 2020

PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATION

(Exact Name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (970) 506-8000

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Appointment of Chief Executive Officer; Departure of Former Chief Executive Officer

On September 22, 2020, the Board of Directors of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Fabio Sandri, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, to the additional role of President and Chief Executive Officer. As previously disclosed, effective June 15, 2020, Mr. Sandri was appointed to serve in the additional role of Interim President and Chief Executive Officer. The Company has initiated a search process to identify a new Chief Financial Officer.

Jayson Penn, who had been on a paid leave of absence from his role as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since June 15, 2020, is no longer with the Company effective September 22, 2020.

Mr. Sandri, 49, has been the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since June 2011 and its Interim President and Chief Executive Officer since June 2020. From April 2010 to June 2011, Mr. Sandri served as the chief financial officer of Estacio Participações, the private post-secondary educational institution in Brazil. From November 2008 until April 2010, he was the chief financial officer of Imbra SA, a provider of dental services based in São Paulo, Brazil. Commencing in 2005 through October 2008, he was employed by Braskem S.A., a New York Stock Exchange-listed petrochemical company headquartered in Camaçari, Brazil, first from 2005 to 2007 as its strategy director, then from 2007 until his departure as its corporate controller.

Mr. Sandri earned his Masters in Business Administration in 2001 from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in electrical engineering in 1993 from Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.