Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Meat packers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,879 meat packers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 71,434 professional contacts across them, including 10,090 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Chicago the largest hub.
This list covers meat packers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for meat packers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest meat packers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8,129 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Smithfield Foods is an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,921 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The dynamic growth of Grupo Bafar is due to its high quality brands, products of exquisite flavor with high nutritional value at affordable prices, responding to the needs of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,388 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “THE MEAT OF THE STORY Foodsphere’s remarkable growth from an aspiring small-scale industry to a competitive mega-enterprise was powered by the vision of dietitian and enterprising…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “National Beef Packing Company, LLC, is America’s Premier Beef Company® Since National Beef® opened the doors to our first processing plant in 1992, we have forged alliances and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kepak Group is a family-owned food company and one of Europe’s leading producers, with over 4,500 people across 14 sites in Ireland and the UK, and a global footprint across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 974 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “West Liberty Foods, headquartered in West Liberty, Iowa is a recognized leader in the food industry and one of North America’s top protein processors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 850 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maple Lodge Farms is Canada’s largest independently owned poultry processor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 787 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Take our word for it: Micarna, member of the Migros group, is one of Switzerland’s leading meat processors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The NOEL Food Group is a family-owned, 4th generation company based in La Garrotxa (Girona), specializing in the production and distribution of cooked, cured, and serrano ham…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 692 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Bell Food Group is one of the leading processors of meat and convenience food in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 649 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elivia : Engageons-nous pour un avenir meilleur Chez Elivia, nous transformons et commercialisons des viandes de bœuf, porc, veau et agneau, destinées à la grande distribution…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Augusta, GA, FPL Food is the number one privately owned processor of fresh beef products and ground beef selections in the Southeast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 585 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leading food service operations, restaurant chains, retailers, and other customers today demand innovative thinking and premium products from their suppliers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 584 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Farmer’s Choice was founded in 1980, with the central purpose of selling fresh cuts and value-added pork products to all income groups in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 566 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, CTI is a culinary-driven company that offers a diverse range of custom food solutions to the food service, retail, industrial, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 544 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos parte de grupo Minerva Foods, la principal empresa comercializadora de proteína animal, contamos con plantas productoras en Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay y…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 542 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At American Foods Group, we work together to feed the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 494 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than 100 years, AFFCO New Zealand Limited has been supplying quality meat products to New Zealanders and around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 475 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A SUINCO é a maior cooperativa processadora de carne suína do estado de Minas Gerais e referência nacional na tecnologia e processamento de carnes e derivados.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 443 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mataboi Fridge” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 404 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Argal Alimentación es, con más de 100 años de historia, una compañía de referencia del sector de la alimentación y la tercera en cuota de mercado en el sector de los elaborados…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 362 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Virginia Food, Inc.(VFI) is engaged in the manufacturing, distribution, and selling of processed meat products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 353 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Myton Food Group, we have a legacy to be proud of.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 344 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creekstone Farms produces Premium and Natural Black Angus beef, Irodori Wagyu and Heritage Duroc pork trusted by restaurants, retailers, distributors and butcher shops around the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 334 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Guided by our relentless effort in being an industry leader, Erie Meats focuses on providing the highest level of quality for all our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: meat packers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names meat packers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of meat packers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name meat packers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Meat packers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among meat packers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for meat packers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “meat packers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names meat packers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among meat packers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 10,090 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Meat packers by location
13 lists · largest firstEvery Meat packers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Meat packers based in the United States604
- Meat packers based in Italy364
- Meat packers based in Brazil194
- Meat packers based in Spain145
- Meat packers based in Canada135
- Meat packers based in Germany125
- Meat packers based in the Netherlands110
- Meat packers based in the United Kingdom88
- Meat packers based in France81
- Meat packers based in Australia64
- Meat packers based in Argentina56
- Meat packers based in Belgium46
- Meat packers based in South Africa25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names meat packers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many meat packers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,879 meat packers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Smithfield Foods, headquartered in Smithfield, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most meat packers?
The United States leads with 604 companies, followed by Italy (364) and Brazil (194). Every meat packers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most meat packers?
Chicago leads with 28 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (14) and Milano Mi (11).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 10,090 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,879 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.