The company has priced its offering of senior notes, which will be issued in one series of 5.250 per cent senior notes due 2018 in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000 and one series of 5.875 per cent senior notes due 2021 in an aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000 .

Merger Sub is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Shuanghui International Holdings Limited.

Subject to customary closing conditions, the offering is expected to close on 31 July.

On the closing date, the proceeds of the offering will be deposited into an escrow account. Upon release from escrow, the Company and Merger Sub expect that the net proceeds of the offering will be used to partially fund the Acquisition, at which time, Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation as an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent, and assuming all of Merger Sub's obligations by operation of law.

The Notes will be offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers in the United States pursuant to Rule 144A and outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The Notes will not be registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.

Henan Shuanghui Investment and Development Co., Ltd majority share owned by Shuanghui International Holdings Limited, has been ranked 128th on 2013 Fortune China 500 list released on this 16 July. According to Fortune China’s website, the ranking included all Chinese companies listed in domestic as well as international markets and based on the data released from the public listed companies at the stock exchanges.