JBS N.V., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a protein and food company worldwide.
The company primarily sells protein products, which include fresh and frozen cuts of beef, pork, lamb, fish, whole chickens and chicken parts, to retailers (such as supermarkets, club stores and other retail distributors), and foodservice companies (such as restaurants, hotels, foodservice distributors and additional processors). The company’s food products are marketed under a variety of national and re...
JBS N.V., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a protein and food company worldwide.
The company primarily sells protein products, which include fresh and frozen cuts of beef, pork, lamb, fish, whole chickens and chicken parts, to retailers (such as supermarkets, club stores and other retail distributors), and foodservice companies (such as restaurants, hotels, foodservice distributors and additional processors). The company’s food products are marketed under a variety of national and regional brands, including: in North America, Swift, Just Bare, Pilgrim’s Pride, 1855, Gold Kist Farms, Del Dia, Northern Gold and Canadian Diamond and premium brand Sunnyvalley; in Brazil, Swift, Seara, Friboi, Maturatta, Reserva Friboi, Seara Da Granja, Seara Nature, Massa Leve, Marba, Doriana, Delícia, Primor, Delicata, Incrível, Rezende, LeBon, Frango Caipira NhÔ Bento, Seara Turma da MÔnica, and premium brands 1953, Seara Gourmet, Hans and Eder; in Australia, Great Southern and AMH; and in Europe, Moy Park and OKane. The company also produces value-added and branded products marketed, primarily under its portfolio of widely recognized consumer brands in some of its key markets, including Seara in Brazil, Primo, Rivalea and Huon in Australia and Beehive in New Zealand.
Business Segments
In order to efficiently manage its global operations, the company is organized according to the following seven business segments:
Brazil: The company’s Brazil segment includes all the operating activities from JBS S.A., mainly represented by slaughter facilities, cold storage and meat processing, fat, feed and production of beef by-products, such as leather, collagen and other products produced in Brazil.
Seara: The company’s Seara segment includes all of the operating activities of Seara and its subsidiaries, mainly represented by chicken and pork processing, production and commercialization of food products and value-added products.
Beef North America: The company’s Beef North America segment includes JBS USA’s beef processing operations in North America and the plant-based businesses in Europe. Beef North America also sells by-products to the variety meat, feed processing, fertilizer, automotive and pet food industries and also produces value-added meat products including toppings for pizzas. Finally, Sampco LLC imports processed meats and other foods such as canned fish, fruits and vegetables to the United States and Vivera Topholding BV produces and sells plant-based protein products in Europe.
Pork USA: The company’s Pork USA segment includes JBS USA’s pork operations, including Swift Prepared Foods. As a complement to its pork processing business, the company also conducts business through its hog production operations, including four hog farms and five feed mills, from which, the company will source live hogs for its pork processing operations.
Pilgrim’s Pride: The company’s Pilgrim’s Pride segment includes PPC’s operations, the majority of whose revenues are generated from United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Mexico sales of fresh and prepared chicken. The fresh chicken products consist of refrigerated (non-frozen) whole or cut-up chicken, either pre-marinated or non-marinated, and pre-packaged chicken in various combinations of freshly refrigerated, whole chickens and chicken parts. The prepared chicken products include portion-controlled breast fillets, tenderloins and strips, delicatessen products, salads, formed nuggets and patties and bone-in chicken parts. These products are sold either refrigerated or frozen and may be fully cooked, partially cooked or raw. In addition, these products are breaded or non-breaded and either pre-marinated or non-marinated.
Australia: The company’s Australia segment includes its fresh, frozen, value-added and branded beef, lamb, pork and fish products in Australia and New Zealand. The company also operates lamb, sheep, pork and fish processing facilities in Australia and New Zealand.
Others: The company’s Others segment includes certain operations not directly attributable to its primary segments set forth above, such as corporate expenses, international leather operations and other operations in Europe.
Products and Services
The company generates the majority of its revenue in each segment from product sales. It sells its products domestically in the countries where it operates its facilities, which it classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which the company classified as export sales. For example, a product sold in the United States would be classified as a domestic sale if produced in one of the company's plants in the United States, or an export sale if produced in another country.
The company’s range of fresh products includes fresh and frozen beef and lamb products (including traditional cuts, prime cuts and offal); fresh and frozen pork products (including pork carcasses, bone-in cuts, boneless cuts, pork bellies and offal); and fresh and frozen chicken products (including refrigerated and frozen whole and cut-up chickens, bone-in chicken parts and prepackaged case-ready chickens).
The company’s ranges of value-added and branded products includes: value-added and branded beef and lamb products (including frozen cooked and pre-cooked beef, corned cooked beef, beef cubes and consumer-ready products, such as hamburgers and sausages); value-added and branded pork products (including ham, trimmings, bacon, sausage and deli and lunch meats); and prepared value-added and branded chicken products (including refrigerated and frozen portion-controlled breast fillets, tenderloins and strips, delicatessen products and salads, formed nuggets and patties and bone-in chicken parts).
In addition, the company sells prepared food products (including ready-to-eat meals, frozen pizza and lasagna).
The company also generates revenue from the services it provides, including cattle hotelling in Australia and hog farming in the United States. Cattle hotelling operations involve the custom housing and feeding of cattle that are owned by third parties in return for fees.
Brazil Segment
Products, Sales and Marketing
The majority of the company's Brazil segment revenues are generated from the sale of fresh beef (including fresh and frozen chuck cuts, rib cuts, loin cuts, round cuts, thin meats, ground beef, offal, and other products) and value-added and branded beef products (including frozen cooked and pre-cooked beef, beef cubes, and consumer-ready products, such as hamburgers).
The company sells its Brazil segment products in Brazil, which it classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which the company classified as export sales.
The company’s customers include:
national and regional retailers (including grocery store chains and independent grocers), wholesale distributors and food processors;
international retailers and wholesale distributors (including in China, Hong Kong, the United States, the Middle East, Europe and emerging markets); and
the foodservice industry, including foodservice distributors, fast food and other restaurants, hotel chains and other institutional customers.
The company markets its products through local sales teams and agents and distribute its products both directly from the company’s facilities and through its distribution centers.
The company markets its Brazil segment products under the brand names Friboi, 1953, Maturatta and Reserva Friboi among other brand names.
Facilities
The company operates various beef processing facilities in Brazil, in the States of Acre, Bahia, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, RondÔnia, São Paulo and Tocantins. The company’s facilities are strategically located to access raw materials in a cost-effective manner and to service its global customer base.
Seara Segment
Products, Sales and Marketing
The majority of the company's Seara segment revenues from its chicken operations in Brazil are generated from the sale of value-added and branded chicken products (which may be fully cooked, partially cooked, or raw, in addition to breaded and marinated products, including chicken nuggets and patties) and fresh chicken products (including refrigerated and frozen whole chickens, breast fillets, and bone-in chicken parts).
The majority of the company’s Seara segment revenues from its pork operations in Brazil are generated from the sale of value-added and branded pork products (including trimmed cuts, marinated products, ham and bacon) and fresh pork products (including fresh and frozen pork carcasses, bone-in cuts, boneless cuts, pork bellies and offal).
The company also sells prepared food products (including ready-to-eat meals, frozen pizza, and lasagna) under its Seara segment.
The company sells these products in Brazil, which are classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which it classified as export sales.
The company’s customers include:
national and regional retailers (including grocery store chains, independent grocers and its own retail stores), wholesale distributors and food processors;
international retailers and wholesale distributors (including in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America); and
the foodservice industry, including foodservice distributors, fast food and other restaurants, hotel chains and other institutional customers.
The company markets its Seara segment products under the brand names Seara, Seara Nature, Doriana, Seara Gourmet, Massa Leve, Macedo, Frango Caipira NhÔ Bento, Rezende, Excelsior, Frangosul, LeBon, Big Frango, Confiança, Delícia, Primor, Gradina, Delicata, Marba, Incrível, Seara Turma da MÔnica, among other brand names.
Facilities
The company operates various fresh chicken processing and value-added, branded and prepared foods facilities in Brazil. The company owns and operates fresh pork processing facilities in Brazil, located in the States of Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and Santa Catarina.
Beef North America Segment
Products, Sales and Marketing
The majority of the company's beef revenues from its operations in the United States and Canada are generated from the sale of fresh beef products (including fresh and frozen chuck cuts, rib cuts, loin cuts, round cuts, thin meats, ground beef, offal, and other products). The company also sells value-added and branded beef products (including frozen cooked and pre-cooked beef, corned cooked beef, beef cubes, and consumer-ready products, such as hamburgers and sausages). In addition, it sells beef by-products to the variety meat, feed processing, fertilizer, and pet food industries. Cattle hides are sold for both domestic and international use, primarily to the clothing and automotive industries. The company sells these products in the countries where it operates its facilities, which are classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which are classified as export sales. Following JBS USA’s acquisition of Vivera Topholding BV, which was completed in June 2021, the company also sells plant-based food products in Europe.
The company markets products under several brand names, including Swift, Swift Premium, Swift Angus Select, Swift Premium Black Angus, Aspen Ridge, and Miller Blue Ribbon Beef. Its hallmark brand, Swift, was founded in 1855.
The company markets its products through several channels, including:
national and regional retailers (including grocery supermarket chains, independent grocers and club stores) and wholesale distributors;
prepared food companies who use the company’s beef products as a food ingredient for prepared meals, raw materials for hamburger and by-products for pharmaceutical and leather production;
the foodservice industry, including foodservice distributors, restaurant and hotel chains and other institutional customers; and
international retailers and wholesale distributors (including Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Hong Kong).
The company's largest distribution channel is retail. It intends to focus on increasing its direct sales to retail and prepared food customers, and to international distribution channels.
Global Exports
The company sells its U.S. and Canadian beef products in more than 60 countries on six continents. The international beef market is divided between the Pacific Block (which includes the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and South Korea) and the Atlantic Block (Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South America). This division reflects not only historical and geographical ties but also certain common sanitary criteria.
The Pacific Block prohibits imports of fresh beef from countries or regions where there is still a risk of new outbreaks of FMD and from countries or regions that are FMD-free but implement FMD vaccination programs. However, the Pacific Block permits imports of processed beef (including cooked and pre-cooked products) from these countries.
Most countries of the Atlantic Block permit imports of fresh beef from FMD-free countries that implement FMD vaccination programs. They also recognize that FMD can be eradicated on a regional (as opposed to national) basis in certain countries, including Brazil, which has areas that are FMD-free and have vaccination programs, qualifying them to export fresh beef. Under this regionalization concept, many beef producing regions in Brazil are thus qualified to export fresh beef to countries in the Atlantic Block. Notwithstanding the foregoing, most countries in the Atlantic Block impose import restrictions on beef treated with growth hormones, citing health concerns. Brazil and Argentina have prohibited the use of growth hormones on their cattle.
The United States has been an FMD-free country since the eradication of the disease, and it does not implement vaccination programs. However, the United States treats most of their cattle with growth hormones, and, accordingly, the European Union and several other countries have banned imports of beef from the United States treated with growth hormones.
The company secures its cattle needs under forward purchase arrangements and on the spot market. Its forward purchase contracts are not fixed-price contracts but are priced at market prices upon delivery, thus generally minimizing its exposure to price volatility before delivery.
On March 16, 2018, Pinnacle Arcadia Cattle Holdco, LLC, as supplier, and JBS USA Food Company, as buyer, entered into a live cattle supply agreement, pursuant to which the supplier agreed to exclusively sell, and buyer agreed to purchase, all cattle owned by the supplier and its affiliates to JBS USA Food Company and its affiliates.
Processing Facilities
The company owns and operates beef processing facilities in the United States and one beef processing facility in Canada. Its facilities are strategically located to access raw materials in a cost-effective manner and to service its global customer base. The company also owns and operates value-added and branded facilities in the United States and one in Canada, which are reported in its Beef North America segment and produce consumer-ready beef and pork products for certain customers. It operates hide tannery facility in the United States. The company also owns and operates plant-based protein processing facilities in the Netherlands that are included in its Beef North America segment.
The company's facilities utilize modern, highly automated equipment to process and package beef products, which are typically marketed in the form of boxed beef. It also customizes production and packaging of beef products for several large domestic and international customers. The company's facilities are also designed to reduce waste products and emissions and dispose of waste in accordance with applicable environmental standards. It has equipped its Riverside, California facility to process value-added and branded products, including, for example, the G.F. Swift 1855 brand line of premium beef products. The company's Greeley, Colorado; Cactus, Texas; and Grand Island, Nebraska, facilities have been equipped for value-added and branded operations, including slicing, grinding, and cubing of beef products for retail and foodservice customers.
The company's JBS Packerland facilities are engineered to process both fed cattle and cows. Steers and heifers raised on concentrated rations are typically referred to in the cattle industry as fed cattle, and cattle not fed such concentrated rations are usually referred to as non-fed cattle. In addition, JBS Packerland facilities are located near major metropolitan areas, resulting in lower freight costs compared to cattle processing plants in other localities. JBS Packerland’s Tolleson, Arizona plant is located near Phoenix, Tucson and Los Angeles; the Plainwell, Michigan plant is located near Chicago and Detroit; the Green Bay plant is located near Milwaukee and Chicago; and the Souderton, Pennsylvania plant is located near Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. The company has also invested in a ground beef operation at the Tolleson plant.
Pork USA segment
Products, Sales and Marketing
The majority of the company's revenues from its pork operations in the United States are generated from the sale of fresh pork products (including fresh and frozen pork carcasses, bone-in cuts, boneless cuts, pork bellies, and offal). It also sells value-added and branded pork products, including hams, bellies, and trimmings, which are sold predominantly to prepared food companies that, in turn, manufacture bacon, sausage, and deli and luncheon meats. The company's remaining sales are derived from by-products and from value-added and branded, higher-margin products. Due to the higher margins attributable to value-added and branded products, in recent years, the company has placed greater emphasis on the sale of moisture-enhanced, seasoned, marinated, and consumer-ready pork products to the retail channel, and boneless ham and skinless bellies to the prepared food channel. The company sells these products in the United States, which are classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which are classified as export sales.
The company sells its pork products in approximately 30 countries on five continents. Most of its United States pork exports are sold to Asia, Mexico, and Canada, since the European Union prohibits the import of animals treated with certain antibiotics and certain growth hormones commonly used in the United States. However, the company's Worthington, Minnesota pork processing plant is EU-certified and sells a portion of its production to the European Union.
The company's JBS USA Pork segment also includes Sunnyvalley, a smoked bacon, ham, and turkey processing business in the U.S., which it acquired on December 1, 2021, thereby expanding its presence in the value-added and branded product categories. Additionally, it includes TriOak, which was acquired on December 2, 2022, and ensures access to a consistent supply of premium hogs for its pork processing facilities.
The company markets its pork products through several channels, including:
national and regional retailers (including grocery supermarket chains, independent grocers and club stores) and wholesale distributors;
prepared food companies who use its pork products as a food ingredient for prepared meals, raw materials for sausage manufacturing and by-products for pharmaceutical and leather production;
the foodservice industry, including foodservice distributors, fast food and other restaurants, hotel chains and other institutional customers; and
international retailers and wholesale distributors (including in Japan, Mexico, South Korea and China).
Processing Facilities
The company owns and operates fresh pork processing facilities in the United States, located in close proximity to major hog growing regions. It also owns and operates pork-only value-added and branded facilities, in addition to the shared beef and pork value-added and branded facilities.
The company's facilities are also designed to reduce waste products and emissions and dispose of waste in accordance with applicable environmental standards. Its Worthington, Minnesota pork plant is a European Union-certified facility that enables it to export primal cuts to Europe.
Pilgrim’s Pride segment
Products, Sales and Marketing
North America
The majority of the company's revenues from its chicken operations in the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico are generated from the sale of refrigerated whole and cut-up chickens, and prepackaged case-ready chicken (including various combinations of freshly refrigerated whole chickens and chicken parts ready for the retail grocer’s fresh meat counter) and prepared chicken products (including refrigerated and frozen portion-controlled breast fillets, tenderloins and strips, delicatessen products and salads, formed nuggets and patties, and bone-in chicken parts). Its prepared chicken products may be fully cooked, partially cooked, or raw and include breaded and marinated products. The company sells these products in the countries where it operates its facilities, which are classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which are classified as export sales.
The company sells these products in the countries where it operates its facilities, which the company classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which it classified as export sales. Its customers include:
national and regional retailers (including grocery supermarket chains, independent grocers and club stores) and wholesale distributors;
international retailers and wholesale distributors in approximately 120 countries on five continents; and
the foodservice industry, including foodservice distributors, fast food and other restaurants, hotel chains and other institutional customers.
The company markets its North American chicken products under the brand names Pilgrim’s Pride, Pierce, Gold Kist Farms and Del Dia, among others.
Europe
The company's revenues from its chicken operations in Europe are generated from its Moy Park business, which includes the sale of fresh and frozen, value-added, branded, and prepared chicken products. In the United Kingdom, its fresh chicken sales primarily consist of refrigerated and frozen whole chickens, breast fillets, and bone-in chicken parts. In the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands, the company produces value-added, branded, and prepared chicken products for sale to customers in retail, foodservice, agricultural, and international distribution channels. It also sells a range of ready-to-cook, coated, and ready-to-eat chicken products to major retailers and large foodservice customers. The company maintains a new product development team and an executive chef to continue to develop new ideas for value-added products across its range and share those insights with its customers in order to drive sales. It has included new innovative products in its portfolio every year during the last five years, with a growing new product development pipeline.
The company’s Pilgrim’s Pride segment also includes its U.K. prepared meat and meals products business, which it acquired through PPC’s acquisition of the specialty meats and ready meals businesses of Pilgrim’s Food Masters (formerly known as Kerry Group plc). Pilgrim’s Food Master is a leading manufacturer of branded and private label meats, meat snacks and food-to-go products in the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland.
The company has strong brands with high levels of brand recognition in the markets in which such brands are sold, including Moy Park, Castle Lea, O’Kane Limited, and Moy Park’s Jamie Oliver range.
The company sells these products in the countries where it operates its facilities, which are classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which are classified as export sales. Its customers include:
national and regional retailers (including grocery supermarket chains, independent grocers and club stores) and wholesale distributors;
international retailers and wholesale distributors; and
the foodservice industry, including foodservice distributors, fast food and other restaurants, hotel chains and other institutional customers.
Processing Facilities
North America
The company owns and operates 25 chicken processing facilities in the United States, six chicken processing facilities in Mexico, and one chicken processing facility in Puerto Rico. For more information about the company's chicken processing facilities and processing capacities in the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico,
As a vertically integrated chicken processor, the company also owns and operates rendering plants, feed mills and hatcheries in the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Europe
The company owns and operates fresh chicken processing facilities, pork processing facilities, lamb processing facility, and hog farm in the United Kingdom. As a vertically integrated chicken processor, it also owns and operates feed mills and hatcheries in the United Kingdom.
The company conducts its value-added and prepared food operations in Europe through various processing facilities.
Australia segment
Products, Sales and Marketing
The majority of the company's beef revenues from its operations in Australia are generated from the sale of fresh beef products (including fresh and frozen chuck cuts, rib cuts, loin cuts, round cuts, thin meats, ground beef, offal, and other products). It also sells value-added and branded beef products (including frozen cooked and pre-cooked beef, corned cooked beef, beef cubes, and consumer-ready products, such as hamburgers and sausages). Additionally, the company operates lamb, pork, and fish processing facilities in Australia and New Zealand. It sells these products in the countries where it operates its facilities, which it classified as domestic sales, and elsewhere, which are classified as export sales.
The majority of the company's beef products are derived from grass-fed cattle. However, it also sells beef products derived from grain-fed cattle, which provide higher quality meat and command a premium price, primarily to Japan.
The company also provides cattle hotelling services in Australia. It operates several feedlots that provide custom feeds for other producers on an opportunistic basis, with a one-time feeding capacity of more than 150,000 cattle.
Processing Facilities
In Australia, the company owns and operates standalone beef processing plants, including the largest standalone lamb processing plants, and other combined beef and lamb processing plant. Additionally, it operates three pork processing plants and fish processing plants. The company also operates value-added facilities, retail locations, and 42 hog farms in Australia, along with one value-added facility in New Zealand. Its facilities are strategically located to access raw materials in a cost-effective manner and to service its global customer base. The company also operates hide processing facility in Australia.
All products are subject to stringent animal husbandry and food safety procedures. The company's processing plants are subject to extensive regulation and inspection by the Australian government, through the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS), the Australian equivalent of the USDA.
Others Segment
The company's Others segment includes its global leather business, its Italian value-added and branded beef business, and its trading companies.
The company operates several hide tanneries around the world, including one in Argentina, one in Uruguay, one in Mexico, one in Germany, one in Vietnam, and one in Italy.
Distribution and Transportation
The company's distribution and transportation network enable it to sell its products throughout the world and is fundamental to its strategy of expanding into new markets and consolidating its safe and high-quality services in markets where it already operates. The company continues to seek innovative solutions to accomplish this mission. Its distribution network consists of distribution centers and sales offices.
South America
The company's transportation network in Brazil consists of owned and outsourced trucks for the distribution and transportation of raw materials. It uses this fleet to transport raw materials, including cattle, grains, and chicken, to its processing plants and export finished products to various ports throughout Brazil, as well as other vehicles that serve its direct distribution network of domestic retailers and end consumers.
In order to facilitate export logistics, the company has an inland container terminal on land located in Cubatão, São Paulo (near the Port of Santos, the largest port in Latin America), which it purchased in October 2007.
North America
The company’s transportation network in the United States consists of owned or leased trucks in the United States that are especially equipped to transport raw materials and finished products. It also utilizes third-party shipping companies that provide the company with additional trucks to transport its raw materials and finished products. The company’s diesel fuel costs are not significant because fuel costs are generally borne by the customer and are therefore largely passed through to the buyer of the finished goods.
Europe
In Europe, the company relies on a mix of owned and contractor-operated vehicles to transport live chickens from farms to its primary production sites in specialized humane high-welfare containers. It also utilizes a mix of owned and contractor-operated refrigerated vehicles to move partly finished products between its various production sites for further processing. Once processed, the company's products are chilled or frozen and delivered to its customers. Chilled products typically move from the processing plant to the customer within one to two days.
For deliveries to customers, the company outsources distribution using a number of distribution partners, which enables it to make use of a variety of flexible solutions provided by these logistics providers. Certain customers are involved in the company's product distribution process, either by handling all of their own delivery and distribution needs (effectively taking delivery of the company's products at the factory door) or by acting as contractors to back-haul certain products from Northern Ireland to destinations in Great Britain.
Australia and New Zealand
The company's distribution network in Australia and New Zealand varies by product type. Its distribution facilities in Australia and New Zealand are strategically located near certain of its processing plants. The company also sells its products to foodservice distributors that further distribute its products to restaurants, hotel chains, and other customers. These foodservice distributors purchase the company's products from its processing plants.
Competition
Beef and Pork Industries
The company’s primary competitors are international beef producers, such as Marfrig and Minerva in Brazil, Tyson Foods, Inc., National Beef Packing Company, LLC and Cargill Inc. in the United States and Teys Bros Pty Ltd. and Nippon Meat Packers Ltd. in Australia. In the pork sector, the company’s primary competitors are Smithfield Foods, Inc., Tyson Foods, Inc., Seaboard Foods and Hormel Foods Corporation in the United States and Cooperativa Aurora—Cooperativa Central Oeste Catarinense Ltda. in Brazil.
Poultry Industry
In the poultry sector, the company’s primary competitors are Tyson Foods, Inc. and Sanderson Farms, Inc. in North America, BRF, S.A. in Brazil and 2 Sisters Food Group in Europe.
Regulation
The company’s operations in Brazil are subject to extensive regulation and oversight by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Ministerio da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento), the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária) (ANVISA).
The company’s United States operations are subject to extensive regulation by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The company also subject to government regulation by the Center for Disease Control, the USDA and the United States Food and Drug Administration (the FDA), in the United States.
The company’s Australian export beef and lamb operations also are subject to extensive food safety and animal welfare regulation and oversight by the Australian Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), as well as Australian state government environmental authorities.
The company’ operations are subject to regulation by a variety of national and international bodies in the area of animal welfare. These include the standards set by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, the USDA in the United States, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, as well as applicable European, Mexican, and Australian authorities.
In the United States, the company is subject to the U.S. Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (the HMSA). This U.S. federal law requires the humane, quick and effective slaughter of food animals. The HMSA, originally passed in 1958, is enforced by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (the FSIS).
History
JBS N.V., formerly known as Friboi Ltda, was founded in 1953. The company was incorporated in 2005.
