Salisbury-based Food Lion struck a deal with Tyson Foods to re-introduce the brand to more than 1,200 Food Lion, Bloom and Bottom Dollar grocery stores throughout the eastern United States.
The chicken will begin appearing in stores this week. It will replace the store-brand chicken sold by all three chains.
Holly Farms was founded in Wilkesboro in 1958 and was purchased by Tyson in 1989. By the late 1990s, the brand name was phased out. The new line of Holly Farms chicken will be produced primarily in the Wilkesboro facility where the company originally began.
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