WATT PoultryUSA - November 2011

WORLD’S TOP POULTRY COMPANIES
The Americas: Diverse business models
across the region

Twenty-one companies are highlighted from a region with government quotas in
Canada, a breast meat-oriented domestic market in the U.S. and a focus on exports
by Brazil.

LATIN AMERICA &
THE CARIBBEAN

Argentina

➥Granja Tres Arroyos

Headquarters: Buenos Aires
Product: Chicken

Production: 104.5 million birds (annually) Employees: 4,500

Granja Tres Arroyos is Argentina’s top poultry producer and currently exports 30% of its total production.

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

➥Rasic Group

Headquarters: Buenos Aries

Product: Chicken, Hatching Eggs Production: 88 million birds (annually) Employees: .......................................... 3,500 Processing: ................................................. 2

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

Brazil

➥Brasil Foods

Headquarters: Itajai - Santa Catarina Revenue (2010): BRL 22. 6 million Product: Chicken, Turkey

Production: 1.69 billion birds (annually)

Brasil Foods is one the largest poultry producers in the world. BRF produces 36 million turkeys annually. Once the merger

process with Sadia is complete, BRF will be one of the biggest processed foodstuffs companies in the world. In 2011, Sadia became a wholly owned subsidiary of BRF, but the companies will continue to maintain their operations entirely separate until CADE publicly announces its position on the merger.

RTC: .................................578.2 million lbs
For more information, see:
www.WATTAgNet.com/brf.html

➥Doux Frangosul

Headquarters: Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul

Product: Chicken, Turkey

Production: 247 million birds (annually) Employees: 10,000

French poultry giant Doux entered the Brazilian poultry market upon buying Frangosul in 1998. Since then Doux Frangosul (as it was renamed in 2008) has maintained a low pro-;le, but has remained one of the top broiler producers and exporters.

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

➥Marfrig

Headquarters: Curitiba, Paraná Revenue (2010): BRL 15. 9 billion Product: Chicken, Turkey, Cattle Production: 650 million birds (annually)

Marfrig is the second-largest poultry producer in Brazil. The company’s operations in South America, North America and Europe have a daily processing capacity of 21,000 head

of cattle, 4,000 pigs and 1. 7 billion chickens annually. In January 2010, the company concluded the takeover of Seara Alimentos SA from Cargill for $705.2 million. In June

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2010 the company paid $1.26 billion for Keystone Foods LLC of West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. In April 2011, Marfrig and Beijing-based Cofco Ltd. jointly invested $252 million in six food-distribution centers in China. Marfrig said later in a regulatory ;ling that it also agreed to a venture with Weifang, China-based Chinwiz to invest $57 million in poultry production. Marfrig’s subsidiary, Keystone Foods, will retain 45% of the venture with Cofco and 60% of the business with Chinwiz.

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

➥Tyson do Brasil

Headquarters: São José, Santa Catarina Product: Chicken, Turkey

Production: 36 million birds (annually)
Tyson do Brasil is a global poultry pro-
ducer.
For more information, see:
www.WATTAgNet.com/TysonBrasil.html