Smithfield Foods has applied to the Polish competition watchdog UOKiK to obtain the permission to acquire local meat processing firms Pini Polska, Hamburger Pini and Royal Chicken, part of Pini Group.
Meat processor Indykpol has secured PLN105 million (€24.5m) to expand the processing capacity of its plant in Olsztyn, in Poland’s north-eastern region.
European mid-market private equity investor, Equistone Partners Europe, has announced the acquisition of the majority stake in Group of Butchers from Nordian Capital Partners.
Polish meat processor QFG has opened a new plant in Pionki, in the country’s central region. The facility is the company’s third meat processing plant in the Polish market.
Croatian food conglomerate Žito Group is planning to build three new meat processing facilities and a packaging plant in the north east of the country.
A subsidiary of Russian meat packer Miratorg, LLC Bryansk Meat Company, has won a legal challenge against poultry supplier Pobeda, which allegedly owed the company millions in missed payments.
Polish meat processor Tarczyński SA has launched a new facility in Ujeździec Mały, in Poland’s southern part, working at full capacity, and has reported increased sales revenues for the first quarter of this year. The company aims to further raise its...
German machine manufacturer KG-Wetter will present its new 120-litre vacuum cutter, made specifically for butchers and small-scale businesses, at the meat processing trade show IFFA in Frankfurt.
The sight of meat traders slaughtering animals in the street may soon come to an end in the Cape Town district of Nyanga, South Africa, after city officials and the provincial department of agriculture finalised a feasibility study for an animal slaughter...
Denmark slaughtered around 250,000 fewer pigs in 2014 compared to 2013, according to new data from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council (DAFC/Landbrug & Fødevarer) based on figures supplied by the Danish Pig Producers association (DPP/Danske Svineproducenter).
Leading Danish meat processing companies, including Danish Crown, Hanegal and Skare Meat Packers, are attracting renewed acquisitive interest from industrial groups in China.
In the coming months the Crimean peninsula could be left without meat products, with almost all companies involved in meat processing at risk of bankruptcy, experts have predicted.
Danish Crown has taken full ownership of Polish processed meat producer Sokolów, after acquiring the remaining 50% of its shares for around DKK1.3bn (€180m).
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has declared that the rise in Campylobacter and E.coli cases in Europe was “directly related” to an alleged increase in ritual slaughterings, which she called a “sanitary bomb”.
New proposals governing the humane slaughter of animals in the UK could have huge implications for Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as the British meat processing industry as a whole.
