M&A Deal Summary

Smithfield Acquires MORLINY S.A.

On November 3, 2004, Smithfield acquired food company MORLINY S.A.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Smithfield’s 21st transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is Smithfield’s 1st transaction in Poland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2004-11-03
Target MORLINY S.A.
Sector Food
Buyer(s) Smithfield
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

MORLINY S.A.

Poland
MORLINY S.A. enagges in production and marketing of branded processed meats.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Smithfield

Smithfield, Virginia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1936
Sector Food
Employees36,500
Revenue 14.1B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Smithfield plant in Clinton, North Carolina.
Smithfield plant in Clinton, North Carolina.

Smithfield Foods is a producer of value?added packaged meats and fresh pork products. The Company distributes under brands such as Smithfield, Eckrich, John?Morrell and Nathan’s?Famous, serving both retail and foodservice markets globally. Smithfield was founded in 1936 and is based in Smithfield, Virginia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 22 of 29
Sector: Food M&A 21 of 27
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 18 of 20
Country: Poland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2004 M&A 5 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-11-03 Comtim Group SRL

Romania

Comtim Group is a vertically integrated meat processing company in Timisoara. The company has hog production facilities with a capacity of 15,000 sows. Currently the company has about 10,000 sows producing 200,000 market hogs annually.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-01-25 ConAgra Foods - Ham Business

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

ConAgra Foods - Ham Business is a producer of traditional and spiral sliced smoked bone-in hams, corned beef and other smoked meat items sold to supermarket chains and independent grocers.

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