Poultry integrators or “vertically integrated” poultry enterprises refer to poultry companies or production chains that are involved in all production aspects in the poultry value chain right from chicken breeding to feed manufacturing to poultry growing, processing and marketing. These are generally multi-billion peso enterprise that produce a lot of products and employ numerous people.
Bounty Fresh Chicken
Bounty Fresh Chicken is one of the brands that falls under the Bounty Fresh Group of Companies. Founded in the 1980s, the company has grown over the years to become one of the biggest and fastest growing broiler integrators in the Philippines. The company, along with its sister brand Bounty Agro Ventures Inc are today some of the biggest and best suppliers of various value added chicken products, table eggs and fresh chilled chicken for the Filipino market. They supply a variety of buyers including restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and many institutional food companies. Recently, the company also entered into the food retail market via its new brand Chooks-to-Go.
The company has a fully integrated broiler farming operation that includes various grandparent farms, parent stock farms, poultry hatcheries, poultry feed mills, chicken dressing plants as well as cool-cell broiler complexes.
The company began its operation in the 80s as a layer farm and has grown over the years into one of the most successful poultry integrators in the Philippines. Unlike other poultry integrators in the Philippines that have entered into various partnerships in certain aspects of the value chain, Bounty Fresh Group of Companies has fully invested in its company-ownedunits including a dozen hatcheries across the Philippines, feed mills, dressing plants, parent and grandparent farms and broiler complexes among others. The company has a total of 10 feed mills to meet various market requirements.
Foster Foods Inc
Foster Foods Inc is a fairly young industry player and is one of the newest poultry integrators in the Philippines. The company began its operation in 1997 through live broiler sales. Over the years, the company has ventured into the dressed chicken market and has been curving a niche in the meat products market in the Philippines over the past few years.
Foster Foods Inc serves a vast array of buyers in the Philippines including fast food chains, hotels and restaurants. The company has been growing at a steady pace and expanding its capacity to meet the growing customer demand. http://fosterfoods.com/home.html
San Miguel Foods Inc (SMFI)
San Miguel Foods Inc (SMFI) is perhaps one of the best known poultry integrators in the Philippines. SMFI is subsidiary of San Miguel Corporation which is one of the biggest business conglomerates in the Philippines with vast interests in the agri-industrial sector in areas such as the commercial feeds manufacturing, poultry, pork, as well as beef.
The company commands the leading market share in each of these agricultural sectors. Unlike Fresh Group of Companies that owns most of its enterprises, SMFI has built its portfolio of businesses through franchising and outsourcing via sustainable partnerships built over the years. It plays its hand in the poultry sector through a huge network of third-party owned and operated businesses in the poultry value chain such as hatcheries, poultry feed mills, poultry farms, distribution facilities as well as warehousing facilities. The company also has a huge network of branded retail outlets throughout the Philippines that sell everything from chicken to pork and beef.
Vitarich
Vitarich is one of the oldest agricultural integrators in the Philippines having been founded in 1950 by the Sarmiento brothers. The company has undergone massive expansion over the past six decades and is currently ranked as one of the biggest poultry integrators in the Philippines. Vitarich operates various production facilities in the Philippines including hatcheries, feed mills and dressing plants.
The company is involved in various feed and livestock operations in the Philippines with its plants located throughout the country. Its range of products includes poultry, hog and aqua feeds. The company formulates, produces, stores and markets its poultry feeds which are available in various formats including crumbles, pellets, mash and extruded forms. The company sells its livestock feeds products via retailers, wholesalers and distributors. The Vitarich livestock operations cover everything from the breeding of livestock, growing the livestock, processing and marketing to the end users.
Other smaller contract poultry farming companies in the Philippines include the following:-
- Nutriva Agri Ventures
- Danway Contract Growing
- Gama Foods
- CPF Philippines