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Brazil's JBS Beefs Up In US and Australia

March 2008 | M&A News Alert

Brazilian meat company JBS announced on March 4 that it will buy two US companies, National Beef Packing and the beef unit of Smithfield Foods, and the Australian beef company Tasman Group. The deal, worth US$1.26bn if approved, will make JBS Swift the US's largest beef producer.

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