Smithfield Foods News

Further signs that the liquidity crunch is spreading beyond housing and financial companies can be found in a new report from Moody's. The number of junk bond issuers with Moody's weakest liquidity rating hit a ...

Shares of leading US meat companies advanced overnight due to lower corn prices, as the corn crop may not be as bad as previously feared, and to lower crude oil prices, analysts said.

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Stock additions At least four of Smithfield Foods Inc.'s directors recently took the "buy low" adage to heart, increasing their holdings in the pork company, Smithfield announced this week.

The company's stock has hit five-year lows, spurring a few insiders to purchase shares on the open market.

North Carolina hog farmers could rebuild after a natural disaster or change operations without having to follow decade-old distance requirements from homes or schools in legislation approved Tuesday by a Senate ...

Fans of Paula Deen can catch a glimpse of the maven of southern cooking this week on Smithfield 's historic Main Street.

When Wesley Batista, the North American boss of Brazilian meatpacker JBS Swift, testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee probing his firm's pending buyout of National Beef Packing and Smithfield Foods beef ...

Top Local Headlines A northwest Iowa man, who's behind bars for sexually abusing a Le Mars, Iowa, woman when she was a teen, will go free.

Shares in Smithfield Foods Inc Tuesday fell to their lowest level in about five years after the U.S. pork producer announced several moves that should help it pay down debt.

Smithfield Foods has seen its shares trimmed nearly 50% in just the past four weeks.

July 3, 2008 at 9:52 am by Michelle Leder Food for thought at Smithfield As we head into the Fourth of July holiday and what will no doubt be a weekend full of BBQs, I can't seem to get a number that I saw in ...

Smithfield Foods Inc., the largest pork processor in the United States, will sell a 5-percent stake to China's COFCO Limited, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

In last week's fourth-quarter earnings report, General Mills reported a 13.4% increase in net sales, with pricing and product mix contributing 8 points toward revenue growth.

A North Carolina worker at a farm that supplies hog meat to Smithfield Foods Inc.

Smithfield Foods Inc. shares sank more than 13% Tuesday after the hog producer announced deals to boost working capital.

SMITHFIELD, VA. Smithfield Foods Inc. has entered into an agreement with COFCO Limited, China 's largest national agricultural trading and processing company, for the sale of 7,000,000 shares, or 4.95% of ...

You might remember when we broke the news back in December about our undercover investigation at a pig farm in Garland, North Carolina, owned by Murphy Family Ventures, which supplies pig meat to Smithfield ...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are the auto makers, Anheuser-Busch, Dollar Thrifty, Fortune Brands, Smithfield Foods and UBS.

In connection with the offering, Smithfield intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to $50 million aggregate principal amount of additional convertible notes solely to cover ...