Sadia S.A. is a major
Brazilian
food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is inge ...
producer that has been a subsidiary of
BRF S.A.
BRF S.A. is a Brazilian food processing company with over 30 brands in its portfolio. They include Sadia, Perdigão, Qualy, Paty, Dánica and Bocatti. Its products are sold in over 150 countries and on five continents. More than 100 thousand e ...
since 2009. It is among the world's leading producers of
frozen foods, and is Brazil's main exporter of meat-based products.
In Portuguese the word ''sadia'' means "healthy", but the name is also an abbreviature of "''
Sociedade Anônima Indústria e Comércio
Concórdia''", with the bold letters being the letters that compose the abbreviature.
Sadia was founded in
Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, and has its headquarters there.
As of 2008, Sadia had about 20 industrial plants that together produced over 2.3 million tons of food including chicken, turkey, pork and beef, pasta, margarine, desserts, and other products. The company supplies over 70 thousand direct points of sale in Brazil and exports to over 100 countries.
Sadia's former chairman Luís Fernando Furlan was appointed
Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade by president
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2003.
In 2008, the company accrued enormous losses on the derivative market.
In 2009 the company announced a merger with its major competitor
Perdigão, forming
BRF - Brasil Foods (technically a takeover of Sadia by Perdigão, which already changed its corporate name to BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.).
In March 2017,
BRF was revealed to have sold processed rotten meat, resulting in food scares and worldwide recalls.
References
External links
Sadia's international siteSadia's Brazilian siteCompany fact sheet
Meat companies of Brazil
Companies based in Santa Catarina (state)
Food and drink companies established in 1944
1944 establishments in Brazil
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