With Big-Name Backers, Chinese Firm Eyes Smithfield's Know-How, Brands

In three decades, Wan Long has turned Shuanghui International Holdings from a small, loss-making meat processor into China's largest, and is making his country's biggest takeover of a U.S. company - the $4.7 billion acquisition of Smithfield Foods Inc, the world's leading pork producer, Reuters reports.

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