26 August 2024

2 minute read

By: Genesus Genetics

Europe

Costa Food Group, the meat-producing holding of Grupo Empresarial Costa, is a leader in the Spanish and European agribusiness sectors. With 160,000 sows (up 5,000 sows from last year’s World Mega Producer) it is one of the largest family-owned swine companies in the world.

The origin of the Costa Food group is linked to Piensos Costa, a leading company in the Spanish pork sector founded in 1966 in Fraga (Huesca), Spain. This company was initially dedicated to the buying and selling of grain and, later, of animal feed. Piensos Costa now has feed production of 4 million kg/day (8.8 million lbs./day) --- 170 tonnes/hour (187 tons/hour). Today, Grupo Empresarial Costa, which includes the meat-producing holding Costa Food Group, operates in 107 countries and has an annual turnover of €2,000 million ($2.2 billion USD).

At Costa Food Meat (the company’s butchering and storage component), they produce– to the highest standards – more than 200 million kg (441 million lbs.) of pork every year and exports to 56 countries. At Costa Food Meat and in accordance with the Group’s philosophy of continuous improvement, they reinvest all their profits every year to remain on the cutting edge of the sector, modernising facilities and improving all it's processess.

Costa Food Group key numbers 2023:

• 2,000 million Euros aggregate turnover
• 5,000 employees
• Over 900 pig farms and 450 poultry farms
• 3.6 million fattening pigs/year
• Exporting to 107 countries