Sadia S.A. is a major
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
food producer that has been a subsidiary of
BRF S.A. since 2009. It is among the world's leading producers of
frozen foods
Freezing food preserves it from the time it is prepared to the time it is eaten. Since early times, farmers, fishermen, and trappers have preserved grains and produce in unheated buildings during the winter season. Freezing food slows decompositi ...
, 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
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), known mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist, and former metalworker who is the president-elect of Brazil. A member of the Workers' Party ...
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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