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June 20, 2005
Beef processors
Minnesota, Wisconsin beef processors to merge
This article is from the Star Tribune, June 16 paper. It explains how two beef processing companies are merging together to hopefully strengthen against their competition. The companies merging together are Rosen Meat Group (Minnesota) and American Foods Group, Inc. (Wisconsin). The new location will be located in Minnesota near Rosen's Long Prairie packing plant and will be called American Foods Group. One of the owners stated, "Together as one company, we can offer a wide variety of products and services to our customers and provide more growth opportunities for our employees and their communities." They are also hoping because the beef industry has been suffereing for a while that this will help prevent layoffs for their employees and hopefully create opportunities to move up in the company. They also want to do this before the Canadian border and international markets open up.
Our group discussed this and we thought that it was a good idea that they are combining and that it will help strengthen their market. We also talked about how we would rather buy from a market that is local or in the United States rather than in an international country. We also would prefer to buy locally because then you have a better chance to know how the animals are treated.