Two Danish abattoirs, Danish Crown and Vestjyske Slagterier, recently announced a merger to form Europe's largest meat-processing business.
Fourth-quarter profit at Hormel Foods fell 1.2percentt as the company, a meat-processing business, was stung by a drop in pork prices.
Murphy rewrote his business plan and rustled up $160,000 more from his investors, and now he's in the meat-processing business as well.
No matter which company acquires the Farmland pork unit, the deal will help further consolidate the meat-processing business, which is now dominated by four companies: Tyson Foods, Smithfield, Cargill and the Swift Corporation.
Someday, this raven-haired child in a Mickey Mouse cap will achieve a stranglehold on seal-fur products, meat processing and the lucrative soapstone sculpture business.
Holdings now being pared back: meat processing, energy units parceled off, shipping business sold out of Chapter 11.
By approving the revolting and often ineffective use of ammonia to sanitize the results of substandard meat processing, it has chosen the profits of big business over food safety for all Americans.
Canada dominates the lobster processing business, with products ranging from fresh meat to a variety of canned and frozen offerings.
The Canadian meat processor Maple Leaf Foods Inc. has agreed to buy the Canadian food processing business of Smithfield Foods Inc. for $378 million.
As they began building the business in earnest, the two men realized there was a critical part of the process over which they had no control — the meat processing itself.
"Anybody in business knows you can't have debt like this," said Marty Yanke, 76, a retired meat processing plant supervisor from Waunakee, Wis., who said he voted for Republicans.
