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Meat processing firm Smithfield Foods is acquiring private label pre-rigor sausage processor and manufacturing firm Kansas City Sausage Company LLC, boosting the Smithfield, VA-based company’s presence in packaged meats.

The move “simultaneously enhances our vertically integrated supply chain, further harmonizing our live production and processing capabilities,” Kenneth M. Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of Smithfield Foods, said in a company press release. “With this transaction, we will strengthen our focus on branded pre-rigor pork products and leverage Smithfield’s expansive sales and distribution network to bring these premium offerings to more customers.”

The Kansas City, MO-headquartered meat firm produces a range of products from Bratwurst to breakfast patties and has facilities in Des Moines, IA and Kansas City.

“The full acquisition further supports the growth of several key packaged meats categories, including breakfast and fresh dinner sausage, as well as Italian style meal solutions like meatballs,” the president of Smithfield’s packaged meats division, Joseph B. Sebring, said in a statement. “Kansas City Sausage produces some of Smithfield Foods’ fastest growing products including Smithfield Breakfast Sausage, Smithfield Craft Collection seasonal Brats, and Carando Meatballs.”

Smithfield said Kansas City Sausage’s plant in Kansas City is the “newest and most modern” sausage processing facility in the country.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the firms.

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