Article: Two beef processors announce merger; Rosen Meat Group of Fairmont made a deal with American Foods of Green Bay.(BUSINESS)

Byline: Joy Powell; Staff Writer

Two beef processors in Minnesota and Wisconsin on Wednesday said they're merging into a new food company to combine their strengths at a time when a crisis in the beef industry is forcing others out of business.

Officials of Rosen Meat Group, a subsidiary of Rosen Diversified Inc. in Fairmont, and American Foods Group Inc. of Green Bay, Wis., anticipate no layoffs but instead want to restore the full-time work hours workers have lost as cattle supplies tightened during the two-year-old ban on Canadian cattle. "This industry is going to change, there's no question about it," said Carl Kuehne, CEO and owner of American ...

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