date:Apr 14, 2014
WH Group Ltd's CEO and another top company executive have been awarded nearly $600 million worth of shares for helping the Chinese pork giant secure its $4.9 billion takeover of U.S.-based Smithfield Foods Inc last year, its preliminary prospectus showed.
WH Group and some of its shareholders launched an up to $5.3 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong last week, the second-biggest ever listing by a food and beverage company.
Wan Long, the company's 73-year-old chief executive and chair