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...Shares in chicken producers were down on their cluck after a second case of the bird flu was confirmed in Tennessee....
...Do City types not appreciate a keenly priced vanilla latte with their sausage roll? Anecdotal evidence suggests they do: analysts praise the innovation and value for money....
...On Tuesday, chicken processor Pilgrim’s Pride put in a surprise all-cash bid for sausage maker Hillshire Brands that values the target at $6bn....
...Hillshire Brands, the US company behind Jimmy Dean sausages, said it will start talks with both Pilgrim’s Pride and Tyson Foods over the takeover bids that the companies have each made....
...Pilgrim’s Pride, majority owned by Brazil’s JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, offered $6.4bn for Hillshire on Tuesday and Arkansas-based Tyson, offered $6.8bn just two days later....
...Hillshire Brands, the US company behind Jimmy Dean sausages and Sara Lee frozen desserts, surged by more than a fifth after finding itself in a rival’s crosshairs....
...Tyson Foods has injected itself into the deal frenzy gripping the US food industry with a $6.8bn bid for Hillshire Brands, an offer that came less than 48 hours after Pilgrim’s Pride launched a $6.4bn takeover...
...(Bloomberg) Tyson Foods has come in with a $6.8bn bid for Hillshire Brands, an offer that came less than 48 hours after Pilgrim’s Pride launched a $6.4bn takeover....
...computer does not always produce the best science, for a country used to being at the leading edge of science and technology, not being competitive in its ultimate expression could be damaging to national pride...
...for Dad, but the bookcase, built in a school woodwork class, was the first thing I remember planning, cutting, fitting, fettling and finishing, the first thing I took home to my family with a surge of pride...
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