International Business News - Foods http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Smithfield Foods Inc, known as the largest hog and pork producer in the world, is transforming itself into a packaged-foods company that is less reliant on hogs and lower-margin fresh pork products, its chief executive said on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090910/smith-field-becomingpackaged-foods-company-ceo.htm Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:14:29 EDT Smithfield Foods Inc reported a much larger quarterly loss on Tuesday, due to low hog prices, H1N1 flu and soft export demand for pork. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090908/smithfield-foods-posts-larger-loss-hurt-hogs.htm Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:27:18 EDT