GREELEY – Swift & Co., one of the nation’s largest meatpacking processors, may find it more lucrative to sell its assets separately instead of as a whole or testing the market with a stock offering, industry analysts said Tuesday.
With beef- and pork-processing plants in six states and an operation in Australia, Swift may find buyers more interested in pieces rather than the whole company, the analysts said.
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DENVER
SkyWest to hire 150 for area operations
SkyWest Airlines announced it is hosting open houses to hire employees in Denver. The events are on various dates through the end of March.
SkyWest plans to hire 150 employees in Denver in the next few months. The carrier wants to increase staffing “to make sure that employees are getting the time off they need,” spokeswoman Sabrena Suite said.
More information at www.skywest.com/skywest/.
DENVER
Decisioneering sells to Hyperion Solutions
Decisioneering Inc. a developer of decision-analysis software, said Tuesday it has been acquired by Hyperion Solutions Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.- based maker of business-performance software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Decisioneering has 75 employees. More than 65 of them are based in Denver, although the company has offices in London and Frankfurt, Germany.
FORT McMURRAY, Alberta
Suncor fights fire at oil-sands processor
Suncor Energy Inc. reported a fire Tuesday at one of its oil- sands processing units in northern Alberta. No injuries were reported. The company said late Tuesday that the fire was brought under control but was still burning “under controlled conditions.” A portion of the processed oil sands is sent to Suncor’s Commerce City refinery for conversion into fuels.
NEW YORK
News Corp. enters bid to buy Tribune Co.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has joined in a bid for the Tribune Co. with the Chandler family, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.
The report said Murdoch may want to combine functions from Tribune-owned New York Newsday with those of News Corp.’s New York Post, citing a person familiar with the situation.
Murdoch would most likely take a minority stake in a consortium, the paper said.
