Gold Kist to Present at the Merrill Lynch Leveraged Finance Conference

  
    
  
  
    
      Gold Kist Inc. (NASDAQ:GKIS) today announced that it has been invited 
      and will participate in the Merrill Lynch Leveraged Finance Conference, 
      which takes place November 13-15, 2006, at The Four Seasons Hotel in Las 
      Vegas. John Bekkers, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Stephen 
      O. West, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, will make an 
      investor presentation at 3:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday, November 14. The 
      presentation will not be webcast, but presentation slides will be 
      available on the investor relations section of the company's Web site, http://www.goldkist.com, 
      on November 15.
    
    
      About Gold Kist
    
    
      Gold Kist is the third largest chicken company in the United States, 
      accounting for more than 9 percent of chicken produced in the United 
      States in 2005. Gold Kist operates a fully-integrated chicken production 
      business that includes live production, processing, marketing and 
      distribution. Gold Kist’s operations include 
      nine divisions located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and 
      South Carolina. For more information, visit the company’s 
      Web site at http://www.goldkist.com.
    
  
Gold Kist Inc. (NASDAQ:GKIS) today announced that it has been
invited and will participate in the Merrill Lynch Leveraged Finance
Conference, which takes place November 13-15, 2006, at The Four
Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas. John Bekkers, President and Chief
Executive Officer, and Stephen O. West, Chief Financial Officer and
Vice President, will make an investor presentation at 3:00 p.m. PT on
Tuesday, November 14. The presentation will not be webcast, but
presentation slides will be available on the investor relations
section of the company's Web site, http://www.goldkist.com, on
November 15.

   About Gold Kist

   Gold Kist is the third largest chicken company in the United
States, accounting for more than 9 percent of chicken produced in the
United States in 2005. Gold Kist operates a fully-integrated chicken
production business that includes live production, processing,
marketing and distribution. Gold Kist's operations include nine
divisions located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and
South Carolina. For more information, visit the company's Web site at
http://www.goldkist.com.