JBS
U.S.A. is ;paying $238 million to buy Empire Packing Co., a family-owned
business with facilities in Cincinnati, Denver, Mason, Ohio, Memphis, Tenn. and
Olympia, Wash.
JBS
owns the former XL Packing plant in Alberta, a deal that included a feedlot it
later sold back to the family owners.
The
JBS deal comes soon after the parent company in Brazil bought Bunge’s margarine
business there. JBS is the world’s largest beef packer.
