China’s biggest agricultural processing and trading company announced it will purchase a 5 percent stake in Smithfield Foods Inc, the US producer of pork, according to Reuters UK.
The Chinese investment is estimated at $350 million involving the purchase of 7 million Smithfield Foods shares.
The China investment strategy by COFCO is to expand the pork industry in China rather than capitalize in the US.
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