Walmart Names New China CEO, President
CHINA - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it has named Walmart executive Greg Foran as the president and chief executive of Walmart China, capping a series of leadership changes at the China unit tainted...

China Hog Markets in January 2012
CHINA - Looking at the size of the breakdown of the inventory for November 2011-breeding stock was around 49.05 million and total on farm inventory was around 476.25 million (as compared to October 2011-breeding...

TOPIGS Imports More Top Genetics to China
CHINA - TOPIGS has imported 500 top breeding pigs into China. This second successful importation comes just one month after a first import of 1,000 animals.

Mouldy Corn Hit Tianli's Business in Q4
CHINA - Tianli expects 2011 revenue and net income in the range of US$28.5 to $29.5 million and $8.2 to $8.8 million, respectively. Its fourth-quarter results were impacted by contamination of the feed...

Zhongpin Starts Trial Production at New Pork Plants
CHINA - Zhongpin has announced that trial production at its two newest chilled and frozen pork products plants, in Jiangsu and Jilin provinces, began on 16 December 2011.

IBM to Build Food-Safety System for Pork
CHINA - International Business Machines (IBM) Corp., the world’s largest computer-services company, won a contract to build a food-monitoring system in China as the nation toughens supervision of food...

China Hog Markets
CHINA - Ron Lane, Senior Consultant for Genesus China, writes, "China: it is the pork powerhouse of the world with over 51 per cent of the world’s population of pigs being raised within China."

TOPIGS Imports Top Genetics into China
CHINA - TOPIGS has successfully imported 1003 top breeding pigs to China. These animals originate from TOPIGS nucleus farms in Canada. The great grandparent pigs are the top of the TOPIGS breeding pyramid...

Tianli Agritech Reports Third Quarter 2011 Results
CHINA - Tianli Agritech, Inc., a leading producer of breeder and market hogs headquartered in Wuhan City, China, has announced its financial results for the quarter and nine month period ended 30 September...

Higher Revenues and Income for Zhongpin
CHINA - Chinese meat and food processing giant Zhongpin has reported higher revenues and net income for the third quarter of the year.

Pork Prices Driving Inflation in China
CHINA - The price of pork has risen so much in China that now it is the only driver of inflation in the country according to analysis by the Danish pig meat processor, Danish Crown.

China Hog Markets
CHINA - China is the pork powerhouse of the world with over 51 per cent of the world’s population of pigs being raised within China, writes Ron Lane, Senior Consultant for Genesus in China.

JSR Opens 900-Sow Joint Venture in China
CHINA - A lavish ceremony, attended by over 150 dignitaries, celebrated the opening of The Hubei Liangyou JSR Breeding Limited, a new Chinese joint venture between JSR Genetics and state-owned Hubei Liangyou...

Some Wal-Mart Stores Reopen After Scandal
CHINA - Thirteen Wal-Mart stores in south-west China have reopened after the recent scandal over pork labelling.

Wal-Mart Exec Replacement Normal, Says MOC
CHINA - The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday (19 October) it was a normal act for foreign firms to adjust company leadership, declining to comment on a recent decision by Wal-Mart Inc to replace...

Wal-Mart China CEO Quits Amid Pork Scandal
CHINA - The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc's China business has resigned citing personal reasons, after the world's largest retailer ran into trouble with Chinese authorities leading to store closures and...

Wal-Mart Employees Arrested Following Pork Scandal
CHONGQING, CHINA - Police in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality have arrested two Wal-Mart employees after the company was found to be selling regular pork that was falsely labeled as organic, local...

Loopholes Suspected in Wal-Mart Management
CHONQING, CHINA - Officials with the Chongqing Municipal government said on Tuesday that the business management of Wal-Mart may be "problematic" after 13 Wal-Mart stores in the city were closed temporarily...

Chongqing's Wal-Marts to Close for 15 Days
CHINA - Most of Wal-Mart's Chongqing branches have been ordered to pay heavy fines and suspend their business for 15 days after being found to have sold ordinary pork as high-quality pork.

Falsely Labelled Pork Leads to Wal-Mart's Closure
CHINA - The government of Chongqing municipality has shut down 10 Wal-Mart stores that have been accused of fraudulently selling ordinary pork as organic pork, according to the local administration of...

Tianli Acquires Land Use Rights, Facilities for Hogs
CHINA - Tianli Agritech, Inc. has acquired land use rights and facilities in the Osmanthus Village Industrial Park, Xiangfeng Town in Laifeng County, on which it also intends to build a 50,000-ton feed...

Zhongpin Starts Trial Pork Production in Tianjin
CHINA - Zhongpin Inc., a leading meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, started trial production at its new prepared pork products plant in Tianjin on Friday.

Pfizer Forms Vaccine Joint Venture
CHINA - Pfizer Animal Health, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., and Jilin Guoyuan Animal Health Co., Ltd. have announced that they will create a joint venture programme to develop, manufacture and distribute...

Wal-Mart Selling Ordinary Pork as 'Green' Pork
CHINA - The global retail giant Wal-Mart said on Wednesday that consumers who bought ordinary pork sold as higher-quality pork will get double their money back.

Continued Government Support for Pork Breeders
CHINA - Sen Yu International Holdings, Inc. commented yesterday that it expects a continuation in government support of animal husbandry and rural infrastructure policies for agricultural products to benefit...

Shuanghui's H1 Net Profit Goes Down
CHINA - China's Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development Co Ltd, the country's top meat processor, posted a 85 per cent slump in its first-half net profit and has forecast its third-quarter earnings to...

Pig Shortage Boosts Tianli's Results
CHINA - Tianli Agritech reports second-quarter revenue 41 per cent higher than last year and net income was up 17 per cent.

Pork Commentary: Road Trip to China
CHINA - Last week we arrived in China after our visit to Russia, writes Jim Long.

China Hog Market - July 2011
CHINA - Looking at the size of the breakdown of the inventory for May 2011—breeding stock was around 47.1 million and total on farm inventory was about 453 million head (as compared to 47.3 million sows...

Zhongpin Chairman Forecasts 'Very Good Year'
CHINA - Pork producers, Zhongpin, has reported higher revenues, net income and earning per share for the second quarter of 2011 than a year previously.