Farm subsidies enable big business to control many farms in the UK
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The majority of Britainâs poultry meat is produced by a handful of large companies including Faccenda, Moy Park, Cargill, 2 Sisters and Banham Poultry -all of which are privately-owned.
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The five major poultry companies
Responsible for âprocessingâ approximately 1.5 Billion chickens a year
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Company | Operating Profit
2015 -2016 | âProcessingâ | Notes |
Cargill PLC | ÂŁ19.2 million | 988 million chickens a year | chickens are received from Cargillâs network of more than 100 independently owned farms. Cargill UK Holdings is owned by Cargill, Inc, a private US company which made $1.64 billion adjusted operating earnings in 2016. |
Faccenda Foods Limited | ÂŁ7.8 million | 114 million chicks per year | Operates or partners with 150 farms across the UK for chicken rearing. |
Moy Park | 50.6 million | 35 million chickens âon the ground at any one timeâ. https://moypark.com/about | In September 2017, JBS a Brazilian company was sold to Moy Park to Pilgrims Pride
 for £1 billion; JBS owns 79% of Pilgrim's Pride. Has 590 Broiler Farms |
2 Sisters Food Group Limited | ÂŁ2.2 million | very approximately 520 million chickens a year. | 10 sites in the UK |
Banham Poultry Limited | -ÂŁ473,612 loss | 21.8 million birds a year. | Has its own hatchery, which supplies all farms producing poultry for the
company, these may be owned, rented or leased. The company. Sells 34 million chickens a year |
updated 2022
đ Source: Intensive farming in the UK, by numbers (2017)
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