JBS

In 1935, one of the founders of modern genetics, JBS Haldane, studied a group of men with the blood disease haemophilia.

It is his only customer and sends inspectors to the farm four times a year to monitor the cattle's food and board.

The company has been talking about a sale to Brazilian protein producer JBS and has attracted interest from private equity buyers.

Stores in those states have been asked to take the products off their shelves, states a news release from JBS Swift Beef Company.

JBS has behaved differently, bringing in professional management and expanding through ambitious acquisitions from an early stage.

Others are private firms, like Gerdau, a steelmaker, or JBS, soon to be the world's biggest meat producer.

A far bigger problem for JBS is how to integrate all its new operations into a coherent beast.

Brazilian companies like JBS are banned from exporting it to America for fear of foot-and-mouth disease.

Brazilian companies in other industries are watching how JBS gets on and plotting similar moves themselves.

Globally, lusophone corporate imperialism is better known via the likes of Vale and JBS, the world's largest meat producing group.

JBS's strategy was perfect for overcoming those obstacles and gaining access to the final consumer.

Part of the resistance to JBS in America has come from the distinctively Brazilian way in which the firm is financed.

This is one reason why in 2007 JBS bought Swift, then America's biggest beef processor, based in Colorado.

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Like other emerging-market firms, JBS found it cheaper to buy brands than to build them.

JBS buys 2, 500 Hilton-grade cattle each year from Edson Crochiquia's Santa Izabel farm, an hour or so from Lins.

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