Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Meat processors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 10,223 meat processors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 312,183 professional contacts across them, including 43,980 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Chicago the largest hub.
This list covers meat processors 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 processors 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 processors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 37,017 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Na JBS, a gente alimenta um futuro melhor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 10,271 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PÁGINA OFICIAL • Missão "Valorizar a qualidade de vida no campo e na cidade, produzindo alimentos de excelência".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 7,884 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Minerva Foods is the leader in beef exports in South America and is also present in the processed meat segment, selling its products to more than 100 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 7,178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marfrig Global Foods is one of the world’s leading beef producers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 5,314 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a company born in the O’Higgins Region that produces chicken, pork, turkey, and processed foods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established 45 years ago, Grupo VIZ / SuKarne is today the Mexican leader in the Global animal protein market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a modern, global food company undergoing an ambitious transformation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,408 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Marel, we're driving the transformation of food processing in close collaboration with our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,909 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wayne-Sanderson Farms is an industry leader and the nation’s third-largest poultry producer, serving customers, consumers and communities with integrity, leadership and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,905 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mountaire Farms has been family owned and operated since 1914, setting the standard in service and quality in minimally processed chicken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,874 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Seaboard Foods, we create the most sought-after pork.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,707 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pilgrim’s Europe is a top UK and European food company with 40+ sites in the UK, Ireland, France and The Netherlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,510 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sofina Foods is a privately owned Canadian company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada dedicated to providing great-tasting, high-quality food products for consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,476 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “bonÀrea Agrupa cuenta con una amplia experiencia en el sector agroalimentario.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,444 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Silver Fern Farms is New Zealand’s leading marketer, processor and exporter of premium quality lamb, beef, venison and associated products.'Inspirational Food created by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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. | |||||
| 18 | 1,317 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A história do grupo Masterboi começou há 25 anos, em Pernambuco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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. | |||||
| 20 | 1,186 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nortura SA is Norway’s leading supplier of meat and eggs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 1,142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Grupo Frigol está entre as grandes organizações brasileiras que se destacam pela evolução empresarial, precisamente no ramo frigorífico com destacada participação no mercado de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1941 by the Dulcich Family, Pacific Seafood is a family-owned and operated company dedicated to providing the healthiest protein on the planet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,080 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Com atuação no mercado desde 1989, a Ad'oro é uma empresa brasileira especializada no abate e comercialização de frangos (inteiros, cortes especiais, desossados e marinados…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,047 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Alibem se dedica à produção e comercialização de carne suína, sendo reconhecida como a quinta maior produtora nacional em volume de abate.” 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 processors. 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 processors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of meat processors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name meat processors. 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 processors 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 processors, 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 processors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “meat processors”. 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 processors), 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 processors, 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, 43,980 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 processors by location
28 lists · largest firstEvery Meat processors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Meat processors based in the United States1,741
- Meat processors based in Italy761
- Meat processors based in Germany639
- Meat processors based in Brazil632
- Meat processors based in Spain536
- Meat processors based in the United Kingdom457
- Meat processors based in the Netherlands420
- Meat processors based in Canada413
- Meat processors based in France406
- Meat processors based in Australia315
- Meat processors based in Poland207
- Meat processors based in Belgium192
- Meat processors based in Argentina153
- Meat processors based in Mexico149
- Meat processors based in Türkiye139
- Meat processors based in India123
- Meat processors based in South Africa101
- Meat processors based in Sweden100
- Meat processors based in Switzerland90
- Meat processors based in Denmark78
- Meat processors based in Portugal76
- Meat processors based in Ireland66
- Meat processors based in Chile59
- Meat processors based in New Zealand52
- Meat processors based in Greece48
- Meat processors based in Austria38
- Meat processors based in Hungary36
- Meat processors based in Norway36
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 processors, 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 processors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 10,223 meat processors 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?
JBS, headquartered in Sao Paulo, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most meat processors?
The United States leads with 1,741 companies, followed by Italy (761) and Germany (639). Every meat processors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most meat processors?
Chicago leads with 46 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (46) and London (39).
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 43,980 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 10,223 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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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.