Shuanghui International, a Chinese food giant, is seeking to raise up to $6bn through an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong in the second quarter of 2014. The Chinese firm recently acquired US-based hog and pork processor ...
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Shuanghui International has acquired a US pork processor Smithfield Foods in an all-cash deal valued at $7.1bn, which includes the assumption of net debt. The deal received approval from Smithfield's shareholders at a special meeting held ...
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Smithfield Foods announced that its shareholders have voted in favor of proposed merger with China's Shuanghui International for $4.7bn, in a development which will be the largest ever takeover of a US company by a Chinese firm. At a ...
Shuanghui International, a Chinese food giant, is hopeful of closing the $4.7bn acquisition of American pork producer Smithfield Foods by 26 September 2013, following the approvals from the latter's stakeholders. The American producer has ...
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China's Shuanghui International has announced that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has approved its proposal to acquire Smithfield Foods. Smithfield and Shuanghui International also received governmental ...
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Investment fund Starboard Value LP, one of majority shareholders of the largest US pork producer Smithfield Foods (SFD), planned to vote against the merger between SFD and Shuanghui International Holding, said foreign sources. Starboard ...
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A majority shareholder is pressuring Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) to explore a breakup rather than go ahead with a planned USD 4.7 billion takeover by Chinese meat company. Activist investor Starboard Value LP said in a letter to the ...
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US-based pork producer and processor Smithfield Foods has reported a 62.6% decline in net earnings to $29.7m for the fourth quarter of 2013, compared with $79.5m for the same period a year ago due to rise in feed costs and decline in hog ...
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Although Shuanghui International and Smithfield Foods (SFD) cannot wait to release a joint acquisition announcement, the two parties have to face joint lawsuits by lawyers from China and the US due to the estimate was accused to be too low, ...
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UK meat firm Cranswick is likely to reap strategic benefit from the merger of China’s largest meat processor and pig producer, Shuanghui International, with the world’s largest pork processor North America’s Smithfield ...
Shuanghui International has agreed to acquire US-based pork producer and processor Smithfield Foods in an all-cash deal valued at $7.1bn, including the assumption of net debt. Shuanghui International is the majority shareholder of Henan ...