Smithfield Foods Inc., Smithfield, Va., closes the sale of its wholly owned Canadian subsidiary.
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Mark blatant advertising for , using . Inc., Smithfield, Va., closes the sale of its wholly owned Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. subsidiary, Schneider Corporation, to Maple Leaf Foods Maple Leaf Foods TSX: MFI is a major Canadian food processing company.
The company was originally known as Maple Leaf. It was founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers, most prominently William Davies Co. Inc. for approximately $378 million, including assumption of the company's outstanding debt.
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