Smithfield Foods News

The Western Tidewater Free Clinic received a large contribution from Smithfield Foods on Nov.

Cyber Monday is looking good to local retailers. By Veronica Chufo 247-4741 , November 30, 2009 A La Tienda packer stuffed a cardboard box with chorizo, cheese, chocolate and cookies.

Since my last update, nearly three months ago, the Basic Food Fund, or "BFF," has risen 6.4% from $182.93 to $194.66 versus an 8.4% increase in the Dow.

Celebrity chef Paula Deen and Smithfield Foods want to make sure the homeless have food for Thanksgiving.

Audrey Kraemer considers the Luter Family YMCA in Smithfield to be her second home.

Oh, she looks gentle and sweet. She makes biscuits like your mama did, and tells y'all to come to supper anytime.

A $4.6 million water treatment plant expansion should meet the maximum demands of the city of Clinton until 2030, engineers told city officials during a recent meeting.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International entered into a settlement agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades: Citigroup upgraded FPL Group to buy from hold on valuation and recommends buying the stock into the staff recommendation.

Smithfield Foods reached a 13-month high Wednesday, after the pork processor was upgraded.

Shares of Smithfield Foods Inc. charged to their highest level in more than a year Wednesday, stoked by upbeat analyst comments and a rising number of bankruptcy filings among rival hog producers that should help cut oversupply.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: Macy's Inc., down $1.57 at $17.86 The department store's third-quarter loss shrunk on inventory controls and localization, while it raised its full-year outlook.

Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading this morning.

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Times Staff Writer There is an effort underway to - revitalize' Smithfield's Main Street, but some business owners south of Cypress Creek said their part of town has long been neglected.

Utility AES sees spate of call selling : The electric utility has been dead money for the last three months, and now one investor may be throwing in the towel.

Loading... 1 of 2 Smithfield Foodsa 413,000-square-foot food packing facility, which will close soon.

For eight hours Wednesday, Christopher Newport University students, staff and administrators stuffed cardboard boxes with food in front of the Ferguson Center for the Arts .

Christopher Newport University launches a 10-hour food drive for the Peninsula Foodbank Wednesday with a multi-ton donation of ham from Smithfield Foods .

Nov. 1--The International Paper mill outside Franklin -- gone by next spring, shredding 1,100 jobs.

Loading... 1 of 2 Stihl Inc. employee Jocelyn Hull works with a tray of housings at the factory in Virginia Beach Friday.