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Smithfield Foods, Inc.

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane
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Abstract

Smithfield has become the number-one pork producer and processor in the world--given all the changes in the global agribusiness industry. How does the company develop its future strategy? A rewritten version of an earlier case.

Keywords

Economy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Agribusiness; Globalization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

Citation

Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and David Lane. "Smithfield Foods, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 900-015, December 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
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