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VION Food Group invests in a new slaughterhouse structure / municipal and district councils hail positive effect on local industry

Maple Leaf Foods has issued the following statement in response to the appointment of Sheila Weatherill as an Independent investigator into the August 2008 listeriosis outbreak...

2008 will be remembered as the year of instability in the money markets and was unprecedented for our generation. This is as true for the pig sector as it is for the whole UK economy (or even the world).

Cherkizovo OJSC, one of Russia’s leading integrated and diversified meat producers, participates in the annual international food and agricultural exhibition Green Week-2009 in Berlin.

Johan Andersson has been appointed as Vice President of Danish Crown’s Swedish subsidiary, Danish Crown Livsmedel AB.

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has appointed Andrew Kuyk CBE to the post of Director of Sustainability and Competitiveness, effective immediately.

Dr. Peter Juul Kristensen has assumed the responsibility of European Key Account Manager, Swine at Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica

Dick Bond, president and chief executive officer of Tyson Foods, Inc., announced he is leaving the company, effective immediately

The United Soybean Board has approved soybean checkoff funding for the development and distribution of the National Swine Nutrition Guide by the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence.

BASF has sold to the German company MIAVIT its animal nutrition premix business and production plant located in the industrial complex of Tarragona (Spain)

Boehringer Ingelheim will provide three U.S. $25,000 awards to the winning proposals for PRRS research in the NAFTA region. The deadline for submissions are January 1 of each year.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD) announced today that the merger of Campofrio Alimentacion S.A. ("Campofrio") and Group Smithfield Holdings S.L. ("Groupe Smithfield") has been finalized.

A New Zealand Pork released report shows a 9 per cent drop in pork imports coming into the country, the first major drop in imports in 7 years.

Noveko International Inc. announces that it has recently achieved significant breakthroughs in the swine market with its Noveko(TM) air filtration technology, namely orders to equip 11 hog farms in Quebec, first orders from Mexico and its participation in the initiatives of the renowned Swine Disease Eradication Center of the University of Minnesota.

Zinpro Animal Nutrition is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. Francisco Fernández López-Brea to its European sales team. As Country Manager – Spain and Portugal, Mr. Fernández will be responsible for the sales and marketing activities of Zinpro in the region and will be based in Lleida, Spain.

Smithfield Foods and celebrity cook Paula Deen, eager to help offset the needs of families at risk of hunger during these uncertain economic times, delivered a 25,000-pound meat donation to the Capital Area Food Bank today as part of the Smithfield Foods Helping Hungry Homes(TM) initiative.