潜水简报:
- 包括泰森食品公司，Cargill Inc.和FoSum International的几家公司有兴趣收购Keystone Foods，为麦当劳提供鸡块的公司，彭博新闻报道。
- Marfrig Global Foods SA, based in Brazil, plans to sell Keystone and raise more than $3 billion to help pay down debt and to acquire a controlling share in National Beef Packing, unnamed sources told the news organization. A transaction could happen during the next few weeks.
- Marfrig bought Keystone for $1.26 billion in 2010. A Tyson spokesman declined to comment on the rumor, while Cargill didn't have a comment.
潜入洞察力：
As美国的肉类和家禽消费量继续上升,companies are looking for ways to expand their reach.
A purchase of Keystone would be a logical acquisition for Tyson in that it falls within their poultry, beef and pork areas of expertise. The Arkansas company could potentially use its existing relationships to supply meat and poultry products to McDonald's and other restaurants and CPG companies. Tyson also is intimately familiar with the protein space and could leverage that insight after acquiring基石。买方甚至可以考虑与麦当劳合作，将掘金纳入零售货架，如PF张的，Arby的和Bob Evans已经完成了他们的一些产品。
The deal also seems to make sense for Cargill. As reported in商业期刊，Minnesota-based Cargill already supplies Illinois-based McDonald’s, so the sale could naturally expand that relationship.
马弗里格似乎准备专注于行业的牛肉部分。Marfrig Beef主要负责牛肉和羊肉的屠宰，制造和分配，Forbesnotes. Selling off Keystone — a division that manufactures multi-protein foods to sell to restaurant chains such as McDonald’s, KFC and Taco Bell, as well as to companies such as Campbell’s Soup — in order to focus on beef production seems like a smart move for Marfrig, especially with its aqusition of National Meat Packing.
Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows Americans are consuming more protein than ever. Total red meat and poultry consumption is expected to increase to 220.4 pounds per person in 2018 from 216.8 pounds a year earlier.
With a sale apparently still in its early stages, it’s hard to predict who will win the race to buy Keystone, but with the food company's chicken nuggets and other items in hot demand, the new owner will get a business with a predictable source of revenue and products that people want.
