Premium Iowa Pork, based in Hospers, Iowa, bid $13 million to buy the slaughterhouse in Windom, which is the largest employer in the southwestern Minnesota town. The plant was scheduled to close Saturday.
The new buyer will not retain the workforce, which totaled 1,007 employees at the time of bankruptcy. A South Dakota pork group will buy the plant's hogs for $1.3 million.
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