After more than 8 years of conflict, the largest companies in the country ended on Thursday (15) with He buys All Eldurado Silolus Brazil J & F. For more than $ 15 billion.
Victory helps to unify the Baptist brothers to the Baptist brothers as the largest business group in Brazil, with revenues of $ 434 billion in 2024 and 340 billion US dollars.
He said: “The closure of this conflict is very important for J & F because it allows us to focus completely on business, which we know the best thing we do. By resolving this conflict in a friendly way, we open a new chapter in the history of Eldurado.” Exclusively for CNN, Aguinaldo Filho, President J& F.
The end of the conflict, which lasted for nearly a decade, brought optimism to the market, which is betting on expanding investments in the pulp industry, while the company analyzes new opportunities.
“The sale of participation in paper excellence must open to J& f derdo delicious investment. Now, expecting is that Eldorado seeks to recover lost time and enter more active in the merger and purchase market.”
In addition to the pulp sector, J&F is placed and unified in several other sectors. They are: food, mining, energy, cosmetics, cleaning, financial ecosystems and communication.
In the past decade, Holding has sought to strengthen areas that are already a global pioneer, such as animal protein, but also increasing the position in the historical sectors historically for Brazil, such as mining and pulp.
“This diversification plays an important role in business that reduces risk. Receiving commodities is exposed, but also to technology, finance and others. So when one passes, others can compensate for some performance. Now, the increase in the site of the core industry strengthens this diversification,” said Arthur Horta, GTF Capital Investment Investment.
See below the company’s performance in each sector.
protein
JBS is one of the main J&F cars and is responsible for a lot of the holding company contract. Brazilian is the largest protein company in the world, with more than 350,000 customers and 600 units in 20 countries.
The food company ended 2024 with net revenue 416.9 billion dollars, an increase of 14.6 % compared to the previous year. One of the most prominent budgets of the public budget for the past year was an increase of 128 % of profit before interest, taxes, depreciation and firefighting (EBITDA), which amounted to $ 39 billion in this period.
The company’s portfolio of the company includes Friboi, Mataratta, Seara, Seara Gourmet, Doriana and Amazing! Swift, Pilgrim’s PRIDE, HUON, Savora, Moy Park, King’s and others.
In addition to making the refrigerator, the company also works with related companies such as leather, biological lodes, collagen, natural wraps, personal hygiene, cleaning, recycling, mineral packing, transportation and waste management.
Cellulose
Eldorado Brasil, the target cellulose sector, is J&Year, against paper distinction, one of the world’s main part.
Experts highlight the full process of the company, whose actual production exceeds 20 % of the initially expected during the opening in 2012.
“The work is a good operational, it works at full capacity. This Imbroglio is an equation, J&A can accelerate other pulp investments in Brazil. We do not have this information yet, but this possibility increases with the legal conflict decision and companies.”
Eldorado Brasil Celulose achieved net revenues of $ 17 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024, which is 30 % annual drainage. Modern results and purchase all J&F shares for about $ 15 billion in investors that the company sees a future cash flow for operations that justifies the payment of a high price, according to Daniel Ottz.
energy
J & F is also placed in the power and marketing market with Aber Energia. The company also provides natural gas transportation, to contribute to the challenges of expansion and diversification in the energy matrix.
In the marketing part, amber works through Aber Energy, based in Sao Paulo. It is a company that sells and exported electricity.
Indeed, power generation assets combine Uruguayan plants (RS), Candiota (RS) and Araucaria (PR), as well as the built -in Cuibá Energy project, with thermal photovoltaic plants and a set of pipelines that carry natural gas from Chiquitos, Bolivia, Cuibá, Mato Grosso.
To Eletrobras Sold Last year, Amber’s natural gas heat portfolio for $ 4.7 billion, which was raised with the Baptist Holding of 4.6 Gigawats (GW).
Mining
In 2022, in one of the latest Baptist Holding Movements, the group entered the mining sector with the purchase of the origin of Vale, LHG Mining, in Mato Grosso Do Sul.
Since the acquisition of LHG mining by the J&F Group, the company has focused efforts to expand the productive capacity, which increased the production of iron and manganese from 2 million to 12 million tons in two years.
cleaning
It was initially created as JBS Hygiene and Cleang, and FLORA became an independent company in 2007, and it merged the J & F Group wallet. In 2023, the company exceeded for the first time a teacher from 2,400 employees and reached revenues of $ 2.2 billion.
Today’s plants are gathered on the fifteenth brands. They are: Minuano, Francis, Neutrox, Albany, Ox Cosmetics, Breeze, and therefore, Phytoderm, Kolene, Karina, Vyvedas, Mat Inset, Capi Vida, Hydratta and not Ihum.
Finance and technology
Currently, J & F Group has a relevant relevant prize for the financial ecosystems: the original bank and Picpay.
The bank was purchased in 2011 and operates exclusively, with a focus on companies, companies and agricultural business, which led to its path. The original Pall L contains a wholesale credit portfolio of $ 7.1 billion.
Already with technology -oriented representation, Picpay adds more than 33 million active users, provides a range of products and services such as digital arithmetic, cards, loans, investments and insurance, and recently innovation via open financing.
beginning
The billionaire company started today in the middle of the decimal century, in a butcher store called Casa De Meat Mineiras in Anápolis (Go). In 1953, the company was opened as a simple trade by the group’s Patriarch, Jose Batista Suprinho, who traveled to buy and resell livestock.
In the sixties of the last century, the butcher store took an important step by installing slaughterhouses in the cities of Goiás Anápolis and Formosa. In the seventies of the last century, J&F started leading the meat market in Brazilia. In the next decade, Greasestore has broken down the meat to the appearance of plants and cosmetics.
As in the eighties of the last century, the youngest children in the Patriarch of the Family, Wesley and Josli Batista entered the work. The first was appointed to manage a refrigerator in Luziânia (Go), while Joesley took over the role of the industrial manager of Minuano. The company was expanding as a refrigerator in Anápolis (Go), where everything began, in the early 1990s.
During the end of the century, there was the merger of the brands of Jurdon and active, then Fribavi was combined into driving into the beef protein sector in Brazil.
expansion
International expansion began in 2005, with the acquisition of Swift Armor, Argentina, and in the next two years, six other refrigerators were purchased in the neighboring country.
In 2006, Friboi appeared for the first time in the international financial market with the emission of bonds, and the following year, Public subscription made and began to adopt the name JBS.
In July 2007, JBS acquired American Swift Co. , Which have achieved five times higher returns. In less than a year, the process reached profitability under the leadership of Wesley Batista.
Protein diversification was expanded in 2009, with the purchase of Pilgrim’s pride, on the same day on the day when BERTIN SA, which enhances JBS as the largest producer of animal proteins in the world.
The growth strategy has advanced to other sectors. From 2011, J & F acquired Banco Matone, which led to the original bank, and the opening of Eldorado Brasil Celulose.
In 2013, JBS expanded her performance in poultry chains and pigs in Brazil with a seen. In the same year, he bought the rural channel. Two years later, amber energy came. Indeed, in 2021, JBS acquired Vivera, the third largest vegetable protein company in Europe, and joined the water farming sector with the purchase of Australia Hun. In 2022, he bought Spanish biotechnology and announced the establishment of a research center in Santa Catarina, both focused on developing implanted meat.
The latest diversification movement was the creation of LHG mining in 2021, from the acquisition of the origins of manganese of iron and manganese in Mato Grosso Do SUL.
