The recent announcement of a buyout offer for Hillshire Brands Co (NYSE:HSH) sending shares surging and will likely impact the company’s recent acquisition targets. Today poultry producer Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (NASDAQ:PPC) offered to purchase Hillshire for $45 per share in a $6.4 billion cash offer to acquire wider product diversification in the grocery arena. “From a financial basis, we think Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (NASDAQ:PPC)-Hillshire Brands Co (NYSE:HSH) would bring many more synergies than would Hillshire-Pinnacle Foods, primarily because putting two meat companies together likely would generate sales/marketing efficiencies, back office consolidation, and supply chain benefits,” said Ken Goldman at J.P. Morgan in…
Pilgrim's Pride Bid for Hillshire Brands Co Puts Pinnacle Foods In Limbo
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.