date:Aug 28, 2014
Ball Park and State Fair as well as bakery products like Sara Lee.
The companies overlap in the business of buying sows when they are too old to breed, the Justice Department said.
Heinold Hog Markets, which had revenues of $270 million and has operations in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska, buys the animals from farmers and resells them to manufacturers. Hillshire buys them to make sausage for its Jimmy Dean and Hillshire Farm brands.
Although the sale of sows consti