Meat, Poultry & Seafood Industry Brand Rankings

JBS S.A. is a Brazilian meat group founded in 1953 in Goiás and run from São Paulo, and it is the largest company on this page: US$86.2 billion of FY2025 revenue and US$2.02 billion of net income. Its 2025 Fortune Global 500 entry is 167th at US$77,182.6 million, filed under the Netherlands, because the listed parent is now JBS N.V., an Amsterdam-domiciled holding company, while the cattle, the plants and the 280,000 staff are Brazilian. The list admitted members at US$32.2 billion, so 92/100 marks a group reporting two and a half times the qualifying turnover on its own ac…

Tyson Foods, Inc. turns more chicken into food than any other company in the United States, and it has done so from Springdale, Arkansas, since 1935. It ranks 278th on the 2025 Fortune Global 500 at US$53,309 million of revenue, against that year's US$32.2 billion entry line. FY2025 group sales of US$54.44 billion produced US$474 million of net income, a pairing that says more about protein processing than any growth figure: the business moves an enormous volume of food at margins set by livestock prices rather than by itself. Membership of that list is what puts Tyson in t…

Cargill, Incorporated is a United States crop processor and merchandiser founded in 1865 and run from Wayzata, Minnesota, unlisted and about 88 percent owned by the Cargill-MacMillan family. Cargill is not on the Fortune Global 500: the list is built from companies that publish audited accounts filed with a government agency, and Cargill, the largest privately held company in the United States, is not among them; no parent or shareholder carries a membership that could pass to it. The 2025 list set its entry line at US$32.2 billion of revenue while Cargill turned over US$16…

WH Group Limited holds two national meat businesses: Shuanghui in China and Smithfield in the United States. The group is listed in Hong Kong as 00288 and keeps its registered home in the Hong Kong SAR, while its two operating centres sit in Luohe, Henan and in Smithfield, Virginia. FY2025 revenue was US$28.03 billion with US$1.591 billion of net income, which leaves it roughly US$4 billion short of the US$32.2 billion entry line used by the 2025 Fortune Global 500, and no membership passes down from a parent or affiliate. That is why it scores 88/100: the top of the band t…

Marfrig Global Foods S.A. is a leading vertically integrated meat processing company headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. With operations across 68 countries, it specializes in beef, pork, and meat products, maintaining a global production network of 32 slaughterhouses and 28 processing plants. Listed on the Brazilian Stock Exchange, Marfrig reported R$58.9 billion (approx. US$11.8B) revenue in 2024, sustaining its significant position in global meat processing through an integrated supply chain and sustainable practices.

Strengths: Marfrig's strengths are its global supply chain spann…

Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited has farmed and processed food since 1978, when it was set up as the listed food arm of Thailand's CP Group in Bangkok, where it still trades on the SET under CPF. FY2025 revenue was THB 571.135 billion, about US$18.2 billion, well short of the US$32.2 billion line the 2025 Fortune Global 500 used to admit members, so CPF is not on that list and takes 89/100 here, the highest mark this round gives a business outside it. JBS and Tyson Foods are the only Fortune Global 500 members across the brand and the manufacturer tables, in po…

Wens Foodstuff Group Co., Ltd. runs one of the largest animal protein businesses in China out of Xinxing, a county in the hills of western Guangdong, and has done so since 1983. The notable feature is not the size but who owns the production. Wens holds the genetics, the feed mills, the veterinary protocols and the recovery and slaughter network; the houses the animals live in belong to independent farm households, roughly 45,000 of them, each settled on a contract price for the stock it raises.

FY2025 put more than 30 million commercial hogs and over 1.1 billion chic…

BRF S.A. was assembled in 2009, when Sadia and Perdigão, two rival meat businesses from southern Brazil, were merged into a single processor; the Sadia name itself goes back to 1934. The company keeps its registered roots in Santa Catarina and its boardroom on Avenida das Nações Unidas in São Paulo, and trades on both sides of the Atlantic under NYSE: BRFS and B3: BRFS3. Marfrig, the Brazilian beef group, holds the controlling stake, a change that altered the operating culture more than the product range.

What rivals cannot easily copy here is the halal franchise. BRF…

Fujian Sunner Development Co., Ltd. is China's largest vertically integrated white-feather broiler chicken enterprise, headquartered in Nanping, Fujian Province. Operating across the complete value chain from feed production, breeding, farming, slaughtering, to deep processing, Sunner is a key strategic partner to global fast-food chains including KFC and McDonald's in China.

New Hope Liuhe Co., Ltd. is a feed and animal protein producer listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under ticker 000876, run from Chengdu and Beijing. It reports under its own name, and that fact fixes its place in this series. The 2025 Fortune Global 500 puts its parent, the privately held New Hope Holding Group, at No. 426, but a listed subsidiary does not inherit a parent's membership. New Hope Liuhe's own revenue of RMB 106.856 billion, about US$15.0 billion, stays below the US$32.2 billion entry line, so the company is scored at 85/100 instead of the 90-plus band rese…