Deal Tracking

Private equity firm AGR Partners, Rose Acre Farms and Weaver Brothers have created Opal Foods and purchased MoarkÍs Midwest assets.

U.S. chicken group PilgrimÍs Pride raised its takeover bid for Hillshire Brands by $1.3 billion to outbid Tyson Foods.

Archer Daniels Midland is bidding for German beverage and flavors company, Wild Flavors, in a deal valued at US$2.04 billion.

Common in Europe, Miscanthus is gaining a toe-hold in Iowa where it will be grown for bioenergy production.

U.S-based Treehouse Foods has acquired Canadian Protenergy Natural Foods for approximately US$150 million.

Two days after PilgrimÍs Pride bid $6.4 billion to Hillshire Brands, Tyson Foods outbids them with an offer of $6.8 billion.

Fonterra and Nestle are reworking their Dairy Partners America (DPA) joint venture in Latin America.

Arla has officially opened the largest and most advanced milk processing plant in the world in Aylesbury, England.

Commodity trading house Ecom has gained approval from the European Commission to acquire Armajaro Trading.

Toyota Tsusho East Africa plans to invest $1.5 billion into mechanization and value addition in agribusiness over the next five years.