Major Chinese buyer circling Moy Park in €1bn sale by Brazilian owner JBS

A Moy Park factory

Samantha McCaughren

Irish poultry giant Moy Park may attract the interest of a large Chinese buyer after being put up for sale by its Brazilian owner JBS.

The Chinese group WH, which controls the American company Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, has been tipped as a suitor for the business in the Brazilian media.