The Amaggi Group, Portuguese Grupo Amaggi is a large

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian commodities company involved in the soybean industry. It is the largest private producer of soybeans in the world. The company has annual sales of over $500 million, and is a large domestically owned exporter that exports to destinations in both

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and the

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. Amaggi was founded in 1977 by André Maggi of Italian origin as a seed producer. In the 1980s he acquired large tracts of land in Mato Grosso and went into soybean production. There he also had the city of Sapezal built. After his death in 2001, his son

Blairo Maggi Blairo Borges Maggi (born 29 May 1956) is a Brazilian billionaire businessman, and former governor of the state of Mato Grosso. Maggi owns the Amaggi Group, a large company that harvests, processes, and exports soybeans, and owns soy termina ...

took over the company. It is headed by CEO Blairo Maggi, son of the group founder Andre Maggi. He is a former Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply who is linked to the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest. The company consists of smaller parts: *Amaggi: involved with exports of soybean products *Agropecuaria Maggi:

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*Hermasa: infrastructure of soybeans *Maggi Energy

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External links

André Maggi Group homepage
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