In the document registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Smithfield Foods said it would offer a total ...
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Smithfield Foods previously traded on the New York Stock Exchange before China-based WH Group acquired the company and took it private in a $4.7 billion deal in 2013.
The agreement comes after concerns that the historic Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish market would shut after the City of London Corporation voted to withdraw support for them.
For some years now the meat market, which supplies restaurants, catering companies and butchers has been earmarked for closure. The plan was for Smithfield and Billingsgate, which sells fish ...