World Animal Protection names JBS Foods worst offender in new scorecard ranking meat industry's climate impact

13-Apr-2023 - JBS Foods, the giant global meat producer, ranks highest in Greenhouse Gas emissions in World Animal Protection's new Factory Farming Climate Culprits Scorecard. Released today, the scorecard ranks the world's top five factory farming giants based on the total emissions released from their ...

JBS defines the next step for the Cultivated Protein Research Center

With the US$ 60 million investment, the JBS Biotech Innovation Center will be installed in the Sapiens Parque technology center in Florianópolis

20-May-2022 - JBS, global leader in protein-based food, has chosen the city of Florianópolis (SC) as the headquarters of theJBS Biotech Innovation Center, a research center dedicated to the food area. To begin with, the location will focus on developing in-house technology for the production of cultivated ...

JBS is entering the cultivated protein market

The investments total US$100 million

22-Nov-2021 - JBS, the largest global protein company and the world's second-largest food industry, has entered into an agreement to acquire control of Spanish company BioTech Foods.The deal signals the company's entry into the cultivated protein market, which consists of producing food from animal cells and ...

Meat company JBS confirms it paid $11M ransom in cyberattack

11-Jun-2021 - The world's largest meat processing company says it paid the equivalent of $11 million to hackers who broke into its computer system late last month. Brazil-based JBS SA said on May 31 that it was the victim of a ransomware attack, but Wednesday was the first time the company's U.S. division ...

World's largest meat company JBS hit by cyber attack

02-Jun-2021 - A hacker attack on the world's largest meat company JBS from Brazil has paralysed large parts of production in North America and Australia. A White House spokeswoman said on Tuesday (local time) in Washington that JBS had informed the US government about the attack on Sunday. Earlier, the ...

JBS acquires European company to expand its global plant-based food platform

Purchase of Vivera, Europe’s third-largest plant-based protein producer for €341 million includes three manufacturing facilities and a research center in the Netherlands

21-Apr-2021 - JBS, the world’s largest protein company and second-largest food producer, has entered into an agreement to purchase Vivera, Europe’s third-largest plant-based food company, for an enterprise value of €341 million. Vivera develops and produces a broad range of innovative plant-based meat ...

Plumrose USA Announces Intention to Build $200M Ready-to-eat Facility

JBS is a major player in the value-added, Italian meats category

13-Aug-2020 - Plumrose USA, a branded packaged meat company and subsidiary of JBS USA, a leading American food company with the second largest pork production footprint in the world, today announced its intention to construct a new, state-of-the-art Italian meats and charcuterie production facility. The ...