The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the all clear for Baiada Poultry to purchase the owner of the Steggles brand (Bartter) in a deal that will create a new market leader in the chicken processing industry. The ACCC initially outlined a decision to oppose the combination of Australia’s second and third largest chicken processors but have now been satisfied by a commitment by Baiada to sell Bartter’s Victorian assets to La Ionica Poultry. “On February 11 2009,... ...Read more »