Germany’s ‘Sausage King’ Is Said to Explore $5 Billion Sale
- Family owners to seek buyer for meat processor Toennies
- Move comes nearly a year after controversy over Covid outbreak
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Billionaire Clemens Toennies is exploring a sale of Germany’s largest meat processor, almost a year after his namesake company was embroiled in a nationwide scandal due to a huge coronavirus outbreak at one of his packing plants.
Toennies Holding ApS & Co.’s family owners are preparing a sale process for the 50-year-old company, according to people familiar with the matter. The business may be valued at as much as 4 billion euros ($4.8 billion) in an auction, they said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private.