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Sadia Offers US$1.7 Billion for Perdigao
Brazil's largest food processor, Sadia, has offered to buy rival
company Perdigao, the country's second largest processor, for as much as 3.7
billion reais (US$1.7 billion).
The share value of both companies rose after Sadia said in a
filing to the country's anti-trust agency that it offered to pay as much as
27.88 reais a share for all existing shares of Perdigao.
Sadia is offering a 21 percent premium on
Perdigao's shares, based on the company's closing price of 23 reais a share on
July 14.
The acquisition would help move Sadia closer to its goal of
fending off foreign takeovers and overtaking international rivals including
Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods and Pilgrim's Pride, the world's largest meat
processors.
By acquiring Perdigao, Sadia could become Brazil's
fourth- biggest exporter with revenue from overseas operations totalling US$5.5
billion a year.
Sadia last year processed almost 1 million metric
tons of chicken, 387,000 tons of pork and cold cuts and 4.6 million tons of
animal feed in 13 plants across Brazil. The company had 45,400 employees at the
end of last year. Perdigao has 35,600 employees in 16 plants.
Sadia
and rivals have been ramping up chicken exports and boosting capacity to take
advantage of reduced supply and poultry import bans from countries affected from
the avian flu, such as Colombia, Croatia, Romania and Turkey.
Poultry
prices in Brazil have fallen about 20 percent this year, helping push the
country's annual inflation rate down to a seven-year-low in June.
Editor WorldPoultry
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