The deal includes three production facilities and a research and development center located in the Netherlands.
Vivera sells under its own name and supplies private-label products to customers in more than 25 countries.
It has significant market share in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany.
JBS is the largest meat-packing company in the world. In Canada it owns the former XL beef-packing plant in Alberta which it bought when the company was hard hit by a large recall because of E. Coli 0157:H7. It is the second-largest beef-packing plant west of Ontario.
