About Our Company

Business Snapshot

>280MM

Meals provided daily

9

Countries of operation

132

Processing facilities

>109K

Team members

JBS USA is a leading global provider of diversified, high-quality food products, including a portfolio of well-recognized brands and innovative, value-added premium products. In the U.S. we are a leading processor of beef, pork, poultry and prepared foods; a leading processor of beef and prepared foods in Canada; and a leading processor of beef, lamb, pork, seafood and prepared foods in Australia. JBS USA is the majority shareholder (81.68%) of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (Pilgrim’s), with operations in the U.S. and Mexico, owner of Moy Park, a leading poultry and prepared foods company in the U.K. and Europe, the owner of Pilgrim’s UK, a leading pork and prepared foods company in the U.K., and the owner of Pilgrim’s Food Masters, a leading value added and prepared foods company in the U.K. and Continental Europe. As a global team, we process, prepare, package and deliver fresh, further-processed and value-added premium meat and poultry products for sale to customers in more than 125 countries on six continents.

Headquartered in Greeley, CO, JBS USA provides more than 280 million daily meals. The company includes 73 production facilities, 59 prepared foods facilities, six feedlots, six live hog operations and eight transportation terminals with operations in 29 U.S. states, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Europe, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. Our more than 109,500 team members work hard to provide consistent, responsible and high-quality products to retailers, foodservice distributors and restaurants all over the world. We have the capacity to process more than 200,000 cattle, 500,000 hogs, 45 million chickens and 80,000 small stock (lambs, sheep, goats and veal calves) per week, providing more than 32 billion pounds of product each year to markets in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, among others.

Our History

JBS USA has enjoyed incredible growth, and we are proud of our history that demonstrates our commitment to being the best and creating a better future for our team members. For more information about our history, please visit Our Business in the general section of our company website.

2007

With the acquisition of Swift & Company, JBS USA is created with a presence in the U.S. and Australia
2008

Acquired Tasman Group in Australia and Smithfield Beef
2009

Acquired a controlling interest in Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
2010

Acquired Tatiara Meats and Rockdale Beef in Australia
2013

Acquired XL Foods beef production facility.
2014

Assumed full operation of the Alex Lee case ready meat processing facility in Lenoir, NC, and acquired the Fresh & Easy case ready meat facility in Riverside, CA.; acquired majority shareholding in Sydney-based Andrews Meat Industries
2015

Acquired Primo Smallgoods Group in Australia and Cargill's pork business; Pilgrim's acquired Tyson de Mexico
2016

Acquired a controlling interest in New Zealand-based Scott Technology Limited, an automated technologies manufacturer
2017

Pilgrim's acquired GNP Company and Moy Park. JBS USA acquired Plumrose USA, Inc.
2018

Scott Technology Limited acquired Alvey Group and Transbotics; JBS Canada acquired Mountain Creek Farms
2019

Pilgrim's acquired Tulip Ltd. (name changed to Pilgrim’s UK in 2020)
2020

JBS USA acquired Empire Packing Co. LP; JBS USA launched Planterra Foods
2021

Pilgrim's acquired Kerry Foods Meats and Meals, now renamed Pilgrim's Food Masters, and Randall Parker Foods. JBS Australia acquired HUON and Rivalea. JBS USA acquired Sunnyvalley Smoked Meats Inc. and Vivera Topholding BV.

Our Businesses

As one of the most diversified food production businesses in the world, JBS USA is structured into specific business units that allow our teams to focus on the details of their individual businesses: JBS USA Beef, JBS USA Pork, JBS USA Live Pork, JBS USA Retail Ready, JBS USA Carriers, Swift Prepared Foods, JBS Canada, JBS Australia, Pilgrim’s and Empire Packing.

JBS USA Beef

JBS USA Beef includes nine beef production facilities in the U.S. split into two business units: fed beef and regional beef. Our four fed beef facilities are strategically located near traditional cattle production centers in the U.S. to ensure access to high-quality, fed cattle, while our five regional beef facilities are located in strategic areas close to major population centers to increase our flexibility to meet the evolving needs of discerning customers.

Daily 4 oz. servings: >61 million
Beef production facilities: 9
Processing capacity: 28,000 cattle per day

JBS USA Pork

JBS USA Pork is the second-largest fresh pork producer in the U.S., with five pork production facilities and the capacity to process 92,000 hogs per day and one further processing facility.

Daily 4 oz. servings: >59 million
Pork production facilities: 5
Processing capacity: 92,000 hogs per day
Further processing facilities: 1

JBS USA Live Pork

JBS USA Live Pork consists of four live hog operations, made up of two boar stud operations and two sow farms, in which our more than 150,000 sows produce approximately 3.5 million hogs each year.

Sow farms: 2
Boar stud operations: 2

JBS USA Retail Ready

JBS USA Retail Ready includes three production facilities that specialize in further-processed beef and pork products. Our Retail Ready operations are strategically located on opposite coasts of the U.S. to provide service to customers across the country.

Daily 4 oz. servings: >454,000
Further processing facilities: 3
Processing capacity: 475,000 pounds per day

JBS USA Carriers

JBS USA Carriers, the transportation arm of JBS USA, is an over-the-road and regional truckload carrier handling both refrigerated and non-refrigerated freight. JBS Carriers has a fleet of more than 700 trucks and provides carrier services to JBS USA, Pilgrim’s and other customers throughout the U.S.

Transportation terminals: 8
Fleet size: 700 trucks

Swift Prepared Foods

Swift Prepared Foods provides high-quality, prepared food products throughout the U.S. and includes five production facilities that specialize in sliced deli meats, bacon, barbecue items and ribs.

Daily 4 oz. servings: >3.7 million
Further processing facilities: 7
Processing capacity: >330 million pounds per year

JBS Canada

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, JBS Canada is one of Canada’s largest beef and prepared foods processors and one of the largest employers in southern Alberta.

Daily 4 oz. servings: >10.4 million
Beef production facilities: 1
Case ready facilities: 1
Beef processing capacity: 4,200 cattle per day
Case ready processing capacity: 7 million pounds per year

JBS Australia

JBS Australia is a leading meat processor and cattle feeder in Australia. Through a network of 11 strategically located production facilities and six feedlots stretched from northern Queensland to Tasmania, JBS Australia has a weekly processing capacity of more than 50,000 cattle, 80,000 small stock and 20,000 hogs, as well as a one-time daily feeding capacity of 150,000 cattle. JBS Australia exports to more than 70 countries while also maintaining significant market share in the domestic beef and lamb markets. JBS Australia owns Primo Foods, a leading manufacturer of ham, bacon, salami and deli meats. JBS Australia is a majority shareholder in Andrews Meat Industries, a Sydney-based meat solution provider for the Australia foodservice industry. JBS Australia also owns controlling interest in Scott Technology, a leading global developer of automation and robotic solutions that improve safety, productivity, reliability and yield in the workplace.

Daily 4 oz. servings: >17 million
Beef production facilities: 7
Multispecies (cattle and small stock) production facilities: 1
Small stock (lambs, sheep, goats, hogs and veal calves) production facilities: 2
Further processing facilities: 8
Feedlots: 6
Beef processing capacity: 10,000 cattle per day
Small stock processing capacity: 16,000 small stock per day
Pork processing capacity: 4,000 hogs per day
One-time feeding capacity: 150,000 head of cattle

Pilgrim’s

As a leading chicken producer, Pilgrim’s has provided wholesome, high-quality products at a great value for more than six decades. With operations in 14 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Europe, Pilgrim’s has the capacity to process 45 million chickens per week. Pilgrim’s is also the owner of Moy Park, one of Northern Ireland’s largest private-sector businesses and Europe’s leading poultry producers, and Pilgrim’s UK, a leading fully integrated pork and prepared foods company in the U.K. JBS USA is the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s.

Daily 4 oz. servings: >134 million
Case ready production facilities: 36
Poultry processing capacity: 44.9 million chickens per week
Hog farms: 2
Pork production facilities: 3
Pork processing capacity: 45,000 hogs per week
Prepared foods facilities: 27
Prepared foods processing capacity: 22 million pounds per week

Empire Packing

Empire Packing specializes in retail case-ready meats, Ledbetter branded retail products and custom food processing and packaging services. It’s four processing facilities are strategically located across the United States to produce and provide 6 million pounds of case-ready beef, chicken, grinds and pork per week to customers.

Daily 4 oz. servings: >2 million
Further Processing production facilities: 4
Processing capacity: 1.5 million pounds per day

*Please Note: As Pilgrim’s Food Masters (formerly Kerry Foods Meats and Meals), Randall Parker Foods, Huon, Rivalea and Sunnyvalley Smoked Meats Inc. were acquired in 2021 , they have not been included in the scope of this sustainability update unless so noted. We will begin to be report on these businesses in our 2022 Sustainability Update.

Financials

Our financials are consolidated and reported with many of the business units described above. Financially, we report JBS Beef, inclusive of our beef production facilities in the U.S. and Canada, JBS USA Retail Ready, JBS USA Carriers and our entire JBS Australia business unit. We report JBS USA Pork, inclusive of all of our pork production facilities in the U.S., JBS USA Live Pork, Swift Prepared Foods and JBS USA Retail Ready. Pilgrim’s is reported inclusive of facilities in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico and Europe.

JBS USA net sales were US$48.8 billion in 2021, an increase of 24.2% in relation to 2020. Net Income totaled US$4.0 billion, an increase of 90.5% compared to 2020. Adjusted EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization), which we define as net income adding back income taxes, depreciation, amortization, interest and excluding foreign currency transaction gains/losses and non-recurring expenses, net, was US$6.9 billion in 2021, which corresponds to an increase of 81.6% in relation to 2020.