WATT PoultryUSA - November 2011

WORLD’S TOP POULTRY COMPANIES
Middle East & Africa: Poultry’s melting pot

Seventeen companies are highlighted in the region that includes importing countries in
the Middle East, a developing industry in Ethiopia and the highly integrated companies
of South Africa.

Egypt

➥Cairo Poultry Company

Headquarters: Giza

Revenue (2010): EGP 1.981 billion Product: Chicken, Hatching Eggs, Feed Sales

Production: 45 million birds (annually) Employees: 8,000

This integrated poultry producer operates 193 breeder houses and 349 broiler houses, under the brands Americana and Koki. CPC is the sole agent for one-day-old grandparent chicks from Arbor Acres and Hubbard.

Cooking Plants:......................................... 1
RTC: ..................................... 0.8 million kg
For more information, see:
www.WATTAgNet.com/Cairo.html

Ethiopia

➥Elfora Agro-Industries

Headquarters: Addis Ababa

Product: Chicken, Table Eggs, Hatching Eggs

Production: 0.42 million birds (annually) Employees: 1,108

Elfora Agro-Industries is the largest livestock company in Ethiopia. It supplies 34 million eggs/year and has large-scale poultry farms at four locations, with a slaughtering capacity of 500,000 kg/year.

Slaughter: ................................................... 1
For more information, see:
www.WATTAgNet.com/Elfora.html

Israel
➥I. T. Group
Headquarters: Hadera

Product: Chicken, Turkey, Hatching Eggs

I.T. Group is a fully integrated company specialising in turkeys and chickens. I. T. owns grandparent stock and parent stock farms, hatcheries and slaughterhouses for both turkeys and chickens. It is 50% owned by Ambar and 50% owned by Tnuva. The group supplies the local market with about 90% of turkey parent stock, some 40% of broiler parent stock, 44% of one-day turkey chicks, 17.5% of one-day broiler chicks, 28% of turkey meat yield and 12% of chicken meat yield.

Slaughter: ................................................... 2
Cooking Plants: ......................................... 2
For more information, see:
www.WATTAgNet.com/ITGroup.html

Jordan

➥Jordan Poultry Processing and
Marketing Company

Headquarters: Amman

Revenue (2010): USD 16 million Product: Chicken, Table Eggs Employees: 251

Jordan Poultry Processing and Marketing Company Ltd is engaged in poultry slaughtering and produces whole chicken, chicken parts, table eggs and frozen chicken. Hammoudeh is the major shareholder of the company.

For more information, see:
www.WATTAgNet.com/JordanPoultry.html

Namibia

➥Namib Poultry Industries Ltd.
Headquarters: Windhoek

Product: Chicken, Table Eggs
Production: 0.25 million birds (annually)
In 2011, the company added ventila-
tion systems to a farm with 53 poultry
houses. The farm should be in operation
in 2012.
Processing: ................................................. 1
For more information, see:
www.WATTAgNet.com/NamibPoultry.html

Oman

➥A’Saffa Poultry

Headquarters: Ghala

Revenue (2010): OMR 2.44 million
Product: Chicken

Production: 17 million birds (annually) Employees: 242

A’Saffa Poultry was the ;rst integrated poultry project in Oman and remains the largest. Its farms comprise a complex of parent bird farms, a hatchery, broiler bird farms, slaughter houses, a processing plant, a rendering plant, a power station, a laboratory, cold storage and an ef;uent treatment system. The company has 54 broiler houses with 25,000 birds/house.

Processing: ................................................. 1
Further Processing: ................................. 1
For more information, see:
www.WATTAgNet.com/ASaffa.html