by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Agribusiness & Food, Brazil Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMarfrig is Marcos Molina’s beef empire — founded in 2000, only the third-largest Brazilian meatpacker for years, until a sequence of contrarian bets (National Beef in the US, BASF-grade discipline at home, the patient conquest of BRF) made its...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Agribusiness & Food, Brazil Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRBRF was born in 2009 from the shotgun merger of Sadia and Perdigao — Brazil’s two beloved food brands, one wrecked by derivatives in the 2008 crash. It became the world’s top chicken exporter and halal-market leader, stumbled through...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Agribusiness & Food, Brazil Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRJBS is the world’s largest meat and protein company — built from a 1953 Anapolis butcher shop by the Batista family into a global machine slaughtering across four continents, feeding hundreds of millions daily through brands from Swift to...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRPrio — born PetroRio — built Brazil’s leading independent oil company on a contrarian model: buy mature offshore fields the majors abandon, slash costs, drill smart tie-backs and squeeze decades of profitable life from ‘dead’...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRCosan is Rubens Ometto’s infrastructure-energy holding: from a family sugar mill in Piracicaba to controlling stakes in Raizen (bioenergy), Compass (natural gas), Rumo (railways), Moove (lubricants) and farmland platform Radar — capped by an...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DREletrobras is Latin America’s largest electricity company — the state holding created in 1962 that built Brazil’s continental hydro-transmission system, then starred in the country’s boldest privatization: the R$33 billion...
