Marfrig


Marfrig is the second largest Brazilian food processing company, after JBS. The company is headquartered in São Paulo. The company has an operational base in 22 countries, exporting to over 100, and is the second-largest beef producer in the world.
Marfrig has about 90,000 employees and has the following structure of units: 33 units of cattle industry, 21 industrial units of chickens, 48 plants for industrial goods and processed, four industrial pig units in Brazil, two industrial units of turkeys, five plants of lamb, 27 own factories of feed for chickens, turkeys, and pigs and two trading companies, 14 industries and commercial offices for leather. The daily capacity is 31,200 head of cattle, 10,400 pigs, 10,400 sheep, 350,000 turkeys, and 3.7 million chickens.
In addition, the company has an installed capacity around 126,000 tons of processed products, and more than 178,500 pieces of leather processed per month. In June 2010, it announced the acquisition of Keystone Foods, a supplier of processed meats for the restaurant chain McDonald's and other companies. In 2018, Marfrig sold Keystone to Tyson Foods.
The company was a sponsor of the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups, the latter held in Marfrig's home country of Brazil.