Plumrose makes and markets bacon, hams, sliced deli meats
and cooked ribs, sold under well-known brands.
The deal covers five prepared foods plants – one in Elkhart,
Ind., two in Council Bluffs, Iowa, one in Booneville, Miss., and one in
Swanton, Vt., and distribution centers in South Bend, Ind., and Tupelo, Miss.
Primose has sales of about $500 million per year.
JBS USA bought XL Packers of Alberta in the midst of a
record-setting beef recall because of E. coli 0257:H7.
