Insights and Stories on JBS

U.S. livestock: June hogs, cattle plunge limit down

Apr. 13, 2020 at 8:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. livestock futures tumbled on Monday on worries about declining U.S. meat processing capacity after Smithfield Foods announced Sunday it would indefinitely shut one of its pork plants due to novel coronavirus infections among workers. The closure at Sioux Falls, S.D., affecting four to five per […]

JBS sees steady trade flows but flags export woes

Mar. 26, 2020 at 3:37 pm CDT

By Ana Mano

‘Misled’ JBS shareholders in Brazil seek damages

Mar. 18, 2020 at 7:44 pm CDT

By Reuters

A+W starts move to all-grass-fed, all-Canadian beef

Mar. 9, 2020 at 8:13 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

JBS plans U.S. listing as Brazil state bank sells stake

Mar. 5, 2020 at 7:53 pm CST

By Aluisio Alves Carolina Mandl Tatiana Bautzer

JBS to buy U.S. meat processor Empire Packing

Feb. 21, 2020 at 2:41 am CST

The U.S. arm of Brazilian meat packing giant JBS plans to expand its footprint in case-ready further processing with a deal for Memphis-based Empire Packing. Empire operates meat and poultry processing plants in its home town of Memphis as well as in Cincinatti, Denver, Olympia, Wash. and Mason, Ohio. It […]

By GFM Staff

How JBS became collateral damage in a war between billionaires

Feb. 11, 2020 at 11:49 am CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters — A business dispute between the disgraced billionaire Batista brothers in Brazil and the heir to an Indonesian pulp and paper fortune is throwing a wrench in meatpacker JBS SA’s plans to for a U.S. listing of its international operations, such as its Canadian beef plant. […]

By Tatiana Bautzer

Coronavirus disrupts China meat imports, food supplies

Feb. 6, 2020 at 7:12 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Coronavirus is disrupting meat shipments to China as the country faces a shortage due to an outbreak of a fatal pig disease, Tyson Foods Inc and U.S. agricultural groups said on Thursday. An outbreak of African swine fever, which infects only pigs, has decimated China’s herd, […]

By Karl Plume Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle sink to multi-month lows

Jan. 29, 2020 at 7:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog and cattle futures dropped to fresh multi-month lows on Wednesday. Ample supplies and weakening cash markets weighed on the cattle contracts while concerns about demand from China pressured hog futures. The pressure on cattle comes at a time of year when the market tends […]

By Mark Weinraub

Chinese meat packing giant locks in JBS supply

Jan. 27, 2020 at 7:09 pm CST

The world’s biggest pork packer is poised to source additional beef, poultry and pork from the world’s biggest meat packing firm. Brazil’s JBS announced Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hong Kong-based WH Group for “supply and distribution of fresh beef, poultry and pork to the Chinese […]