Cargill loses bid to block rival's hiring of meat executive
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- Mark Reilly
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A federal judge rejected Cargill Inc.'s effort to stop a former meatpacking executive from joining a competitor, ruling that the agribusiness giant's worries about trade secrets were unfounded.
Reuters has a report on this week's ruling, which followed a bid by Wayzata-based Cargill to block the hiring of Jason Kuan by JBS in Colorado. Cargill had sued Kuan, who once led its "case-ready" meat business in Canada, saying he had copied files.
But Kuan countered that the copied files were just backups and that he didn't have any trade secrets. A judge agreed, ruling that his "knowledge now is generalized."
Mark Reilly manages daily and weekly coverage at the Business Journal newsroom.
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