Food giant Cargill to buy $290 million stake in Chile salmon farmer

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Chile is the world’s second largest salmon producer after Norway. Cargill is a leading supplier of salmon feed.

Under the deal, Salmones Multiexport will also have a 1.13% stake sold to a local unit of Japan’s Mitsui & Co, whose stake in the firm will also reach 24.5%.

Multiexport Foods is set to receive a total $303.3 million.

The conditions of the deal – which still requires approval from antitrust watchdogs in the Unites States, Brazil and Chile – must be fulfilled in up to six months.