JBS S/A Brazil

With access to 100% of the consumer markets of the world and production capacity in the 4 major producers of beef (Brazil, Argentina, USA and Australia), JBS became the leading export in this sector, first in the world in slaughtering capacity - 47.1 thousand head per day - Brazil's largest multinational food and also win a significant position in the market for pork (with purchase of Swift and Company, JBS to enter the market for pork). The company operates in the sectors of food and transport. Over 40,000 employees contribute to their success. The management of JBS is marked by an entrepreneurial spirit. It was the first to enter the field of activities in the refrigerator industry in Brazil. With strategic vision, determination and political expansion the company has become increasingly internationalized in 2005 from the acquisition of Swift Argentina. It was also the first to go public in this segment in 2007. One should also mention the acquisition of Swift Foods Company and the United States, becoming the largest sector in the world of proteins of bovine and third largest producer and processor of pork in the U.S.. With this acquisition is replaced Farms also in the USA (3 pig plants , 4 cattle and 1 sliced meat. And in Australia 4 plants and 4 units of confinement). The quest for modernization, growth and welfare of partners, customers, employees, society and the satisfaction of its shareholders, marking the business management issues linked to the s of Social and Environmental Responsibility.