Cade, Brazil’s anti-monopoly organization, approved two requests from Perdigão and Sadia to make joint purchases of ingredients and supplies, including beef, grains and packaging materials.
The two companies joined in mid-2009 to form Brasil Foods and have been ordered by Cade to maintain separate administrative and commercial business structures.
This recent authorization by Cade is not an integration of those structures and applies only to the beef part of their businesses, since they are not major players in that market, according to Gazeta do Povo.
This new authorization does not apply to joint purchases for their poultry and pork businesses, because Perdigão and Sadia dominate those sectors in Brazil.
