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Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CP Foods)
Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (Bangkok Thailand; SET: CPF; CP Group subsidiary; ~$17B revenue; founded 1978 as the agricultural division of CP Group, itself founded in 1921 as Chia Tai Company seed importing from China) is the world's largest integrated broiler and egg producer and a major global poultry feed manufacturer. CP Foods operates feed mills, poultry farms, processing plants, and retail food brands in 17 countries including Thailand, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Turkey, UK, Belgium, and Malaysia. CP Foods' formula: produce its own compound poultry feed in-country, use that feed in CP-owned broiler farms, process and sell under CP brand names (5-Star chicken in Thailand; Betagro in some markets). CP Foods processes approximately 2.5 billion chickens per year globally — making it the largest single broiler producer in the world. CP Group's agricultural origins (importing seeds from China in the 1920s) evolved into the integrated poultry empire: by the 1970s CP Group was importing US broiler genetics (from Arbor Acres, now Aviagen) and feed technology, building Thailand's modern poultry industry from scratch. Thailand became a major chicken exporter (to Japan, EU, UK) on the foundation of CP Foods' integrated supply chain.
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CP Foods Linyi Feed Mill and Chicken Complex (Shandong, China) →
CNShandong Province · manufacturing
Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) feed mill and integrated broiler complex in Linyi, Shandong Province, China. CP Group has been operating integrated poultry feed and farming operations in China since the 1980s — among the earliest foreign investors in Chinese animal agriculture. China is CP Foods' second-largest country operation. Source: https://www.cpfworldwide.com/en/about-us/cpf-business-overview
CP Foods Saraburi Integrated Feed Complex (Thailand) →
THSaraburi Province · manufacturing
Charoen Pokphand Foods integrated feed mill and poultry processing complex in Saraburi Province, Thailand — one of CP Foods' largest integrated broiler production complexes. Feed mill, breeder farms, hatchery, and processing plant on a single vertically integrated site. Thailand is CP Foods' home market and largest single-country operation. Source: https://www.cpfworldwide.com/en/sustainability/supply-chain
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Poultry (Broiler & Egg)
40%Animal Feed
28%Aquaculture (Shrimp, Fish)
18%Swine
10%Food Processing & Retail
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Did you know2024
CP Foods is tracked as a food production company (poultry, shrimp, swine), but its parent CP Group also operates Thailand's 7-Eleven franchise (13,000+ stores, more per capita than Japan). CP Group is therefore simultaneously the world's largest integrated broiler producer AND a dominant convenience retail network operator. CP-produced chicken goes through CP supply chains to 7-Eleven stores where CP sells it to Thai consumers as ready meals. The food supply chain and the food retail distribution chain are vertically integrated within the same Thai family conglomerate — eliminating the independent layer of food distributors and retailers that exist between production and consumption in Western food systems.
CP All PCL ↗Origin2023
CP Foods is a subsidiary of CP Group, which was founded in Bangkok in 1921 by Ek Chor Chearavanont — a Chinese immigrant from Chaozhou (Teochew), Guangdong Province, who started Chia Tai Company to import vegetable seeds from China. The Chearavanont family (Overseas Chinese from Chaozhou) built CP Group from seed importing into animal feed, then into the world's largest integrated poultry production company. CP Group is now Thailand's largest conglomerate spanning agriculture, food, 7-Eleven (Thailand franchisee), telecom, and the largest foreign private investor in China, where CP has major poultry, agri, and retail operations.
Charoen Pokphand Foods ↗