JBS S.A.

Introduction: For more than 50 years, JBS has been providing customers around the world with a wide variety of quality products at tremendous value. In 1953, my father started a small-family-owned beef company in Brazil. He had a single mission: to provide the best possible service, selection and value to our customers. Today, JBS is the world's leading animal protein processor. Our mission remains unchanged.

JBS is the largest multinational food processing company in the world, producing factory processed beef, chicken and pork, and also selling by-products from the processing of these meats. It is headquartered in São Paulo. It was founded in 1953 in Anapolis, Goias. The company has 150 industrial plants around the world.

JBS began as a family business and today our principles remain the same. We value honesty, integrity and sincerity. We are passionate about our work and we encourage our employees to take ownership of their daily tasks. We know that our customers have a choice in suppliers. That’s why we believe in working together to grow your business.

The company has established itself as the world's largest company in the beef sector with the acquisition of several stores and food companies in Brazil and the world, with emphasis on the 2007 US$225m acquisition of U.S. firm Swift & Company,[4] which was the third largest U.S. beef and pork processor, renamed as JBS USA. It leads the world in slaughter capacity, at 51.4 thousand head per day, and continues to focus on production operations, processing, and export plants, nationally and internationally.

With the new acquisition, JBS entered the pork market, featuring an impressive performance in this segment, to end the year as the third largest producer and processor of this type of meat in the U.S. The acquisition expanded the company's portfolio to include the rights worldwide use of the Swift brand.

The next year, JBS acquired Smithfield Foods' beef business. It was renamed JBS Packerland.
JBS's production structure is embedded in consumer markets worldwide, with plants installed in the world's 4 leading beef producing nations, Brazil, Argentina, USA and Australia, serving 110 countries through exports.