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Smithfield Foods

Smithfield Foods

Head office: USA

Smithfield Foods, Inc. is a hog producer, and pork and beef processor. The Company conducts its business through six segments: Pork, Beef, International, Hog Production (HP), Other and Corporate, each of which comprises a number of subsidiaries. The Pork segment produces a variety of fresh pork and packaged meats products in the United States and markets them nationwide and to a number of foreign markets, including Japan, Mexico, Canada and Australia. The Pork segment operates over 40 processing plants.

The Beef segment is composed mainly of two United States beef processing subsidiaries, the Company's cattle feeding operations and the Company's interests in cattle feeding operations. The International segment includes the Company's international meat processing operations that produce a variety of fresh and packaged meats products. The HP segment operates a number of hog production facilities with approximately 888,000 sows producing about 13.9 million market hogs annually.

In May 2007, the Company acquired Premium Standard Farms, Inc. (PSF), a vertically integrated provider of pork products in the United States, producing pork products for the retail, wholesale, foodservice, further processor and export markets. In October 2006, the Company completed its acquisition of substantially all of the non-turkey product assets of the branded meats business of ConAgra Foods, Inc.

In fiscal year 2007 the company reached the revenue of US $ 11.9 (EUR 9.1) billion.

Net Profit Margin  (ttm) 1.68%
 
Operating Margin (ttm) 2.31%

Website: www.smithfieldfoods.com

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