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National Beef Plans IPO at $15-$17 Per Share
National Beef Inc, a holding company that intends to buy a minority stake in the fourth largest U.S. beef company, said it will have an initial public offering of 17.25 million shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Wednesday, reports Reuters....
JBS Gets Green Light to Buy Pilgrim's Pride
A cattle producers' lobbying group is criticizing the U.S. Department of Justice for not blocking a proposed merger of the world's largest beef producer and North America's second-largest chicken processor....
Pilgrim’s Pride Receives Early Antitrust Clearance
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. today announced that it has received early antitrust clearance from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice for the company’s previously announced stock purchase agreement with JBS USA Holdings Inc. (JBS U.S.A.), a subsidiary of JBS S.A....
JBS USA delays IPO
Brazilian meat processor JBS S.A. will wait until January to make an initial public offering of its U.S. unit -- Greeley-based JBS USA -- to give it time to close its acquisition of Pilgrim's Pride Corp. and complete its merger with Bertin S.A., a former Brazilian competitor....
Redefining the industry
America's beef cattle industry has conjured up many male macho images in its long history. Think The Marlboro Man or John Wayne. Yet it's also been notable...
JBS Versus JDB?
Brazilian beef giant JBS SA is set to announce as soon as next week the acquisition of Texas-based Pilgrim's Pride Corp. for a price of roughly $2.5 billion, say people familiar with the matter. ...
Concentration pro & con
Whether market concentration is the chicken or the egg, the tail or the dog, it continues to increase. That's no secret. Benefits from this concentration...
JBS juggernaut
Who are these guys? was the question many asked when Brazil's JBS SA bought Swift & Company two years ago. Its purchase brought JBS out of obscurity as...
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