date:Jun 10, 2014
Hillshire expires Dec. 12. It is contingent on Hillshire dropping plans to buy Birds Eye frozen vegetable seller Pinnacle Foods Inc (PF.N) for $6.6 billion deal, including debt.
Hillshire on Monday said it had not approved the Tyson offer and had not changed its recommendation that shareholders vote for the Pinnacle deal.
Some analysts say China's Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd set the current food fight in motion last May when the company, now called WH Group Ltd, bought Smithfield Food