Smithfield Foods launched its initial public offering of stock this Tuesday (Jan. 28), selling 26 million shares at $20 each ...

As rumors swirl that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted in Monmouth, local law enforcement and the ...

The public offering came in at $522 million, although the pork producer had anticipated more than $900 million.

Smithfield Foods does not plan to close more U.S. pork processing plants, Chief Executive Shane Smith said on Tuesday, as the ...

WH Group plans to hang onto more than 91% of Smithfield's shares even after the IPO, so that's not going to change, but Smith ...

Smithfield Foods yesterday (Jan. 21 ... Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has ...

Smithfield Foods is targeting a valuation of up to $10.73 billion in its New York flotation, the Farmland bacon maker said on Tuesday, moving closer to its much-anticipated U.S. stock market return ...

30. Smithfield was founded in 1936 in its namesake town by the Luter family as a small meat-packing company. A series of acquisitions starting in the 1980s hoisted it as the largest U.S. pork ...

A County Durham butcher has been named one of the best in the UK after it was awarded three gold-standard awards. Coates Butchers clinched the three gold awards in a prestigious craft butchery ...

U.S. chicken producer Perdue Farms will permanently shut a Monterey, Tennessee, processing plant on March 28, eliminating jobs for 433 employees, the company said on Friday. It is the latest loss ...

Smithfield says it is the world’s largest hog producer and pork processor. The company’s Farmland Foods plant in Monmouth can process more than 10,000 hogs per day, accounting for only a small ...

IN a moment that sparked applause, Matthew Lyn, group CEO of Caribbean Broilers, used the platform at the unveiling of the Caribbean’s first air-chill poultry processing plant — regarded as ...