But none of the company's previous buys compares in size to its purchase in 2007 of Swift, the third-biggest processor of beef and pork in America and the biggest processor of beef in Australia.
In relation to data revisions, a member of the committee, Domenico Giannone, has calculated based on the size of previous revisions that the probability that, after revision, GDP in 2012Q2 will be found to exceed GDP in 2011Q3 is about 5%.