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...In 2015 the US Department of Justice vetoed Thai Union’s planned $1.5bn acquisition of rival US tuna brand Bumble Bee over concerns it would have harmed competition. Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Still, a failed attempt to purchase Bumble Bee Seafoods, the top US canned tuna supplier, in late 2015 prompted a company rethink....
...US prosecutors have reeled in a big fish in their probe of price-fixing in the packaged seafood industry, after Bumble Bee — the US-headquartered seafood company owned by UK private-equity firm Lion Capital...
...The Thai company, which launched in 1977 in Bangkok’s Chinatown with a few hundred employees, also made a $1.5bn bid to buy US brand Bumble Bee in 2014, but scrapped the deal after US authorities vetoed...
...Bee Seafoods of the US....
...It owns the John West brand in the UK and Bumble Bee Seafoods in the US....
...Thai Union, which also owns the US tuna brand Chicken of the Sea, has been linked to a possible purchase of Bumble Bee Foods, North America’s largest canned tuna and sardines maker, although it has not commented...
...Weetabix was bought in 2004 by private equity fund Lion Capital, which last year bought Bumble Bee Foods, the seafood company and Picard the French frozen food specialist....
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