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In 2021, WH Group ranked 3rd on FBIF's Top 100 Chinese Food & Beverage Companies list. [8] Wan Long is the chairman and chief executive officer of WH Group. [2] Kenneth M. Sullivan, the president and chief executive officer of Smithfield Foods, became an executive director of WH Group in January 2016. [9]
Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion. [9] [10] It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date. [11] The acquisition of Smithfield's 146,000 acres of land made WH Group, headquartered in Luohe, Henan province, one of the largest overseas owners of American farmland. [b]
In 1968 Wan Long started work for Luohe Meat Products Processing United Factory, and became the factory's general manager in 1984. [3]Wan Long is the chairman of WH Group, the world's largest pork company, with subsidiaries including Smithfield Foods in the US. [2]
He was shortly thereafter promoted to chief executive officer, and from January 2016 was a director of Smithfield Foods and its Chinese parent company WH Group. [1] [2] [3] During the summer of 2020, animal rights activists from Direct Action Everywhere attacked Sullivan's home, along with some Smithfield facilities, by spraying it with pig ...
A fact from WH Group appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 June 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know ... that Wan Long, chairman of Shuanghui , is known as China's "number one butcher" due to the number of pigs his company slaughters?
The expanding WHSmith group adopted a new "house style" or corporate identity in 1973, with a new logo and a change of name from W. H. Smith & Son to WHSmith. The new hexagon-shaped logo featured the initials of the group on the sides of a box employing a new orange and brown colour scheme, replacing a logo that had been in use since before 1830.
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Brady Corporation was founded as W.H. Brady Co. in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 1914, by William Henry Brady (1879–1953). [2] In 1984, the company went public and began trading on the NASDAQ market. In 1998, W.H. Brady Co. became Brady Corporation and in 1999, the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BRC.