But in the end American regulators approved JBS's purchase of Swift, just as they approved the Pilgrim's Pride transaction in mid-October.
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In the last four years JBS has participated in 13 transactions, including the acquisition of U.S. grocery-store staples Swift, Smithfield Beef and Pilgrim's Pride.
Hormel Foods increased 2%, though Tyson Foods fell 0.1%, Sanderson Farms 1.4% and Pilgrim's Pride 4.1%.
Instead, catch this quirky flick based on a graphic novel called Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life.
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One way around the public-relations problem this creates is to buy struggling companies like Pilgrim's Pride, which JBS is rescuing from bankruptcy.
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Don Jackson, who was running Pilgrim's Pride throughout the reorganization process, says although JBS has been part of the company's corporate reorganization, it did not interfere in chicken operations.
As higher chicken feed costs push multi-national chicken firms like Pilgrim's Pride and Tyson's Food to report losses this year, Abdel Hadi says crayfish waste is an alternative source for the protein and minerals necessary to raise chickens.
The trust runs Lincoln County, Grantham and District and Boston's Pilgrim hospitals.
Next to them, four large barrels of cider - two sweet, two dry - sit in a row, hissing out the day's cider to any pilgrim who turns up with an empty glass.
In terms of weekly attendance of around 75-100, and a growing commitment to mission and service work even as the numbers were off the glory days of the 1960s and 1970s, Pilgrim Faith is the prototypical U.S. house of worship.
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Built in 1890, Pilgrim had been on the list of the nation's most endangered religious buildings.
If there's one piece of wisdom that this simple pilgrim would like to impart upon you: have the courage to start with the customer.
Not coincidentally, this was Benedict's farewell to his flock: To be a pilgrim, he said, was his only wish during his remaining days.
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