Of note: Smithfield, the ham company, was Virginia owned and operated until about 2013 when it was sold to a Chinese company for just over $4 billion. The bottom line: The Isle of Wight's old ham ...

That is, I would guess, particularly true if you`re a ham producer from Smithfield, Va., ”The Ham Capital of the World,” risking your reputation, indeed perhaps your livelihood, in competition ...

SMITHFIELD, Va. -- Smithfield Foods celebrated its newest food venture - a restaurant that showcases the company's hams and other specialty food products - over ham biscuits, roasted peanuts and ...

The town also is home to the world’s oldest cured ham from 1902 at the Isle of Wight museum. As important as the pork itself is Smithfield Foods, which employs about 3,800 people in Virginia.

SMITHFIELD, Va. — Painted pig statues grace the picturesque brick sidewalks of this small Virginia river town of 8,000, and its slogan, “Hams, History and Hospitality,” probably tells ...

Decades before the receipt for Smithfield ham pioneer Mallory Todd’s landmark shipment to the West Indies in 1779, Virginia planters were sending thousands of hams alongside huge quantities of ...

SMITHFIELD, Va. — With Christmas just around the corner, Smithfield Foods is helping feed families across Hampton Roads and the surrounding areas with its "Hams for the Holidays." On Saturday ...

WH Group, the Chinese parent company of Virginia-based pork producer Smithfield Foods, is planning to put Smithfield’s businesses in the U.S. and Mexico on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq ...

Virginia-based Smithfield Foods says it will shutter its Altoona ham boning facility, a move that will leave 314 workers without jobs. Smithfield's announcement this week comes on the heels of ...