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Brazil lifts suspension of beef exports to China

By Reuters June 14, 2019

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s government said Thursday it has lifted a suspension of beef exports to China after dealing with an atypical case of BSE, sending shares of Marfrig Global Foods, Minerva and other Brazilian meatpackers soaring. The suspension had been in effect since June 3 after a case was reported in a […] Read more

Marfrig is the second-largest beef processor in South America behind JBS

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Brazil’s North American push into the beef market

Prime Cuts with Steve Kay

By Steve Kay May 25, 2018

No one in the early 2000s could possibly have imagined that Brazil’s two largest beef companies would eventually own or control two of the U.S.’s four largest companies. Yet that is about to occur when Marfrig Global Foods completes its U.S. $969 million acquisition of 51 per cent of National Beef Packing. The latter is […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Marfrig to buy control of U.S.-based National Beef

By Ana Mano April 9, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s Marfrig Global Foods said Monday it would buy control of Kansas City-based National Beef Packing for US$969 million, in a deal that would make it the world’s No. 2 beef processor. Marfrig also said it was seeking to sell an existing U.S. unit, Keystone Food. The proceeds will be […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Brazil farm minister heads to U.S. over fresh beef ban

By Bruno Federowski, Roberto Samora June 23, 2017

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s agriculture minister prepared to travel to the U.S. on Friday to fight a ban on imports of fresh Brazilian beef, which hit shares of local meatpackers and revived concerns about the image of the world’s largest beef exporter. “We will fight for this market!” said the minister, billionaire soy […] Read more

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Beef packing needs a better value add if it's going to compete with poultry

By Brenda Schoepp September 2, 2014

When we consider the trials and tribulations of beef packers, there is often very little room for sympathy. But beef packing is a tight-margin business and processors will engage in more than one protein to offer consumers. Looking at the top five global processors in the world shifts our perspective on the importance of processing […] Read more

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Brazil lifts suspension of beef exports to China

Brazil’s North American push into the beef market

Marfrig to buy control of U.S.-based National Beef

Brazil farm minister heads to U.S. over fresh beef ban

What’s at ‘steak’ in a growing demand for chicken?

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