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Minerva Foods
Brazilian multinational food company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Minerva Foods is a Brazilian food company founded in 1924 in the city of Barretos, São Paulo.[3]
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Minerva S.A. | |
Company type | Publicly traded company |
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Industry | Food |
Genre | Public company |
Founded | 1924 (1924-age) |
Founder | Antonio de Pádua Diniz |
Headquarters | Barretos, Brazil |
Number of locations | Worldwide |
Products | Beef production Fresh and frozen meat Bovine-derived products Processed meat Sales of leather and live cattle |
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Owner | Vilela de Queiroz Family |
Number of employees | +21,000 (2021)[2] |
Website | www.minervafoods.com |
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The company is specializes in the trading of fresh beef, leather, derivatives, and the export of live cattle, as well as meat processing.
It is the second-largest beef company in Brazil and Uruguay and the largest beef exporter[4] in Paraguay, Colombia, and Argentina. It sells its products in over 100 countries.[5]
Minerva operates 26 slaughter and deboning plants (11 in Brazil, 3 in Paraguay, 2 in Uruguay, 1 in Colombia, and 5 in Argentina) and 3 processing plants, with a daily capacity to slaughter and debone approximately 54,000 heads of cattle.[5]