US: Improvements in pork drive Smithfield earnings
By: just-food.com | 10 March 2011
US meat group Smithfield Foods has revealed that improvements made at its restructured pork business have allowed it to capitalise on growing demand over the first nine months of its fiscal year.
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US meat group Smithfield Foods has revealed that improvements made at its restructured pork business have allowed it to capitalise on growing demand over the first nine months of its fiscal year.

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