Smithfield Foods, Inc., is a meat-processing company and wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China...
In addition to the over 500 farms Smithfield owns in the United States, another 2,000 independent contract farms around the country grow Smithfield's pigs.[4] Outside the U.S., the company has facilities in Mexico, Poland, Romania, Germany and the UK.[5] Globally the company employed 50,200 in 2016 and reported an annual revenue of $14 billion.[2] Its 973,000-square-foot meat-processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was reported in 2000 to be the world's largest, processing 32,000 pigs a day.[6]
Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion, more than its market value.[7] It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date.[8] The acquisition of Smithfield's 146,000 acres of land made WH Group, headquartered in Luohe, Henan province, one of the largest overseas owners of American farmland.[9]
They have retail food outlets. Their pulled pork bar-b-que sandwiches are incredibly good. (I have a recipe that is equal to it, came from family member in that business)
Next month we will be going to spend time in NC, and will have Smithfield Bar-b-que sandwiches more than once.
I have not purchased a single Smithfield product since China aquired Smithfield. I also spread the word to all friends that China owns too much of America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This deal should never have been approved on the basis of National Security.