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Exhibit 99.1
Contacts:
Sherman Miller, President and CEO
Max P. Bowman, Vice President and CFO
(601) 948-6813
CAL-MAINE FOODS, INC. ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF
 
JEFF HARDIN
SCOTT HULL TO ASSUME EXECUTIVE OFFICER ROLE FOR SALES
RIDGELAND, Miss.
 
(April 4,
 
2024)
—
 
Cal-Maine Foods,
 
Inc. (NASDAQ:
 
CALM) today
 
announced that
 
Jeff
Hardin, Senior
 
Vice President
 
of Sales,
 
is retiring
 
from his
 
position with
 
the Company,
 
effective July
 
23,
2024. Scott Hull, Vice President of Sales, will assume the executive officer role previously held by Hardin,
effectively
 
immediately.
 
Hardin
 
will
 
continue
 
to
 
work
 
with
 
Hull
 
through
 
the
 
transition
 
period
 
until
 
his
official retirement date.
 
 
Hardin joined
 
Cal-Maine Foods
 
in 1988
 
and was
 
named Vice
 
President of
 
Sales in
 
2002. He
 
has
played a pivotal role in driving the
 
Company’s consistent record of sales growth and establishing valuable
long-term working relationships with Cal-Maine Foods’ leading customers.
 
Hull has been with the Company
 
since 2009. He has worked closely
 
with Hardin in his most recent
position, as well as in his prior role as National Sales Manager. He previously served as a general manager
at the Company’s Louisburg, North Carolina, location before joining the sales
 
team in 2014.
 
Commenting on the
 
announcement, Sherman Miller,
 
president and chief
 
executive officer
 
of Cal-
Maine Foods, stated,
 
“Jeff Hardin has
 
been an outstanding
 
sales leader for
 
Cal-Maine Foods, and
 
we are
extremely grateful
 
for his
 
36 years
 
of dedicated
 
service. Throughout
 
his tenure,
 
he has
 
developed strong
working relationships
 
with our
 
valued customers
 
and provided
 
exceptional service
 
and support
 
that are
hallmarks
 
of
 
Cal-Maine
 
Foods.
 
We
 
are
 
thrilled
 
to
 
have
 
Scott
 
Hull
 
take
 
on
 
additional
 
sales
 
leadership
responsibilities and
 
assume the
 
executive officer
 
role. He
 
has already
 
demonstrated his
 
proven ability
 
to
lead our sales efforts,
 
and we are confident we
 
will continue to have market
 
success under his leadership.
We look forward to working
 
together as we continue
 
to execute our growth
 
strategy and extend our
 
market
reach.”
About Cal-Maine Foods
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.
 
is primarily engaged
 
in the production,
 
grading, packaging, marketing
 
and
distribution
 
of
 
fresh
 
shell
 
eggs,
 
including
 
conventional,
 
cage-free,
 
organic,
 
brown,
 
free-range,
 
pasture-
raised and nutritionally enhanced eggs.
 
The Company, which is
 
headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi,
is the largest
 
producer and distributor of
 
fresh shell eggs in
 
the United States and
 
sells the majority of
 
its
shell
 
eggs
 
in
 
states across
 
the southwestern,
 
southeastern, mid-western
 
and mid-Atlantic
 
regions of
 
the
United States.
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