Hungry in the wrong direction

It wasn’t too long ago when Vion Food aimed to become Europe’s largest meat company in North West Europe. Nowadays the company is struggling to find its way up again. In early 2009, in the early days of the worldwide financial crisis, Dutch meatpacker Vion Food sold a relatively small Thai poultry operation, called Grampian Foods Siam, of about 4,000 employees. For Vion, the Thai company had been a side catch when acquiring the British meatpacker Grampian Country Foods Group one year earlier