Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V., a Mexico-based producer and processor of poultry and other food products, announced that through its subsidiary OK Foods acquired Alabama-based Albertville Quality Foods (AQF), Albertville, Ala.

Australian beef processor Kilcoy Pastoral Co. (KPC) reached a definitive agreement to buy what is said to be Chicago’s oldest operating beef processor, Ruprecht Co., Mundelein, Ill.

OSI Group, Aurora, Ill., joined forces with UK-based Pickstock Telford, Ltd. to assure a steady supply of quality beef to OSI’s further processing operations in Europe.