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Primary Poultry Breeders of Company
ProfilesMerial - ISA - Hubbard-ISA - Shaver - Babcock - BUT - BUTA Lohmann-Wesjohann - Hyline - Herstorf & Neilson - Lohmann Tierzucht-GmbH Nutreco - Euribrid/Hybrid BC Partners Ltd. - Aviagen Group Ltd. - Ross Breeders - Arbor Acres - Nicholas Toshoku Ltd. - Dekalb Poultry Research Inc. Tyson Foods - Cobb-Vantress Inc. (CVI) - Cobb Groupe Grimaud La Corbière - Grimaud Frères Nickerson Group - Cherry Valley Farms Anak Breeders Ltd. Peterson Farms Inc. Hendrix Poultry Breeders Babolna Rt. TETRA Sasso - Sepalm Legarth Avian Farms Inc. Dominant Ltd. Kabir Chicks Ltd. Broholm Breeding Centre Georg Stolle Group - Seddiner Zucht- und Mastenten GmbH  Merial - ISA - Hubbard-ISA - Shaver - Babcock - BUT - BUTA ISA was founded in 1976 by grouping - through the Merieux Institute - the existing genetic potential of the two most important breeders in the French poultry industry - the Vedette (broiler breeders) and Isabrown (brown egg layers). Later on in 1981, the acquisition by ISA of the American firm Babcock Poultry Farms Inc. completed a basic plan of action for world-wide operations. Over the past few years ISA has gradually set up a network of 15 subsidiary companies in different areas of the world, namely, the United Kingdom, the U.S.A., Canada, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Brazil, Venezuela, Poland and Czechoslovakia. In the latter part of 1989, Canada's Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms Limited was acquired by ISA. ISA's commercial program includes production of various broiler strains and laying strains of both white and brown eggs. ISA, with its acquisitions, affiliations and subsidiary companies, now supplies over sixty five (65) percent of the world's brown-egg market, thirty five (35) percent of the world's white-egg market, and fifteen (15) percent of the world's broiler market. For some years prior to 1997, ISA was a subsidiary of the multinational company - Rhône-Poulenc. British United Turkeys (BUT), an amalgamation of British breeders and research was incorporated in 1962. It was acquired in 1978 by Hubbard Farms a US primary breeder of layer and broiler breeds, which was itself a subsidiary of Merck Drugs Co. Inc. In 1981 BUT established a US company British United Turkeys of America (BUTA) which develops its own lines and serves over 40% of the North American market. In 1997 a new company - Merial Animal Health - came into effect through the joint efforts of Merck & Co. Inc and Rhône Poulenc. This brings together breeding lines from ISA, Babcock, Shaver, BUT and Hubbard to form the largest company in poultry genetics incorporating layer, broiler and turkey lines. Lohmann-Wesjohann - Hyline - Herstorf & Neilson - Lohmann Tierzucht-GmbH The Lohmann-Wesjohann Group is a conglomerate of over thirty companies working in close cooperation in various fields and disciplines. They encompass poultry breeding, egg-type pullet production/multiplication, animal nutrition, livestock feeds and concentrates, pharmaceuticals, technology and poultry meat processing plants. Business activities of the group are worldwide. The Group's U.S. subsidiaries - Hyline International and Hy-Vac - are breeders of egg layers whose products are marketed worldwide, the latter producing eggs for use in vaccines. Lohmann-Tierzucht and H&N International located in Germany are also breeders of egg type layers and producers of SPF (specific pathogen free) eggs with an international reputation. Nutreco - Euribrid/Hybrid Euribrid B.V. and Hybrid Turkeys operate as a joint company that is unique in the world of animal breeding. Combined this is the only company to be active across the 4 product groups of turkeys, broilers, layers and pigs. This span of involvement in the intensive livestock species enables Euribrid/Hybrid to invest in, and develop genetic techniques and programs that are at the very forefront of industry progress. Euribrid, established in 1951, is headquartered in Boxmeer, the Netherlands. Company operations are located in Denmark, Belgium and Spain alongside a comprehensive sales and service team operating from more than 20 locations around the world. Regional distributor agreements are established on all continents to provide local access to supply for producers. Euribrid's poultry breeding program is in broiler breeders and white and brown egg layers. Euribrid's layer breeding activities (Hisex) are being merged with Hendrix (Bovans) in a 50/50 joint venture in order to expand their joint market position and reduce the overall cost base. Hybrid Turkeys, headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, is one of only 3 primary turkey breeders in the world. For more than 30 years Hybrid Turkeys has been developing turkey genetics for the North American and international markets. Euribrid/Hybrid's parent company is Nutreco N.V., a publicly listed company on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (AEX). Nutreco is an international agribusiness and aquaculture company with key activities in the areas of animal nutrition, compound feed processing and technology, poultry processing, fish nutrition and farming. Other members of the Nutreco group include Moore- Clark in Canada, Trouw Nutrition, Hendrix Feed, Sada Poultry, UFAC (all in Europe) and Mares Australes in Chile.
Toshoku Ltd. - Dekalb Poultry Research Inc. Dekalb Poultry Research Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshoku Ltd., Japan. Until 1993 it was a subsidiary of Dekalb Genetics Corporation (DGC), a company dating back to the 1920s when it was active only in seed genetics - corn, alfalfa, soybeans etc , and was called Dekalb AgResearch Inc. In the early 1980s Dekalb purchased Pfizer's seed division calling the new seed company Dekalb/Pfizer Genetics, and later changing it to Dekalb Genetics Corporation. In the early 1940s it branched into poultry genetics (egg layers) and into swine genetics in the 1970s. Dekalb Poultry Research Inc, through its foundation department, produces grandparent stock and multiplier breeders and offers to commercial egg facilities around the globe several varieties of layer type chicken, each bred for a different combination of marketable traits. Tyson Foods - Cobb-Vantress Inc. (CVI) - Cobb The Cobb Breeding Company Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cobb-Vantress Inc. (CVI) which is owned and controlled by Tyson Foods of Arkansas, USA. The Cobb 500 is the world's most popular broiler breeder. It is the product of over 25 years of pedigree breeding, developing its genetic capabilities to meet the changing demands of the world broiler industry. The Cobb Breeding Company, based in the UK is responsible for sales and technical support across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Japan and Australasia. The parent company, CVI with headquarters in Arkansas takes responsibility for the rest of the world. Primary breeding is carried out in both these locations. Cobb has separate but parallel breeding programs in Europe and North America linked to more than 20 grandparent centres for distribution of parent stock to customers in more than 60 countries worldwide. Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, Arkansas, is the world's largest poultry producer with sales of $6.5 billion in 1996. With a reputation for innovative products to boost chicken consumption, Tyson has the capacity to process 46 million birds per week. Groupe Grimaud La Corbière - Grimaud Frères Grimaud Frères has been operating for nearly 30 years in the genetic selection of pure lines of ducks and rabbits. The company is a subsidiary of the Groupe Grimaud La Corbière S.A. which includes A L'Autruche S.A. which breeds ostrich and Euro-Pigeon S.A. which breeds pigeons. Nickerson Group - Cherry Valley Farms Cherry Valley Farms is based in Rothwell, England, and is the world's leader in the genetic development of new Pekin strains. It is also the world's largest breeder of duck breeding stock and is a fully integrated duck producer. Cherry Valley is owned by the Nickerson Group of companies, a United Kingdom food group that specializes as well in the genetics of grain and livestock production. Through Nickerson's many integrated facilities Cherry Valley has access to markets world wide. Anak Breeders Ltd. Anak Breeders Ltd. is the only international primary breeder located in a country with a hot climate. For this reason Anak products are ideally suited to regions in which high temperatures prevail. The production program includes: Anak Broilers, Yaffa layers for brown eggs, and Yarkon tint, feather sexed layers for "off-white" eggs. A team of highly trained geneticists, veterinarians and poultry technicians works in close cooperation with the academic institutions in Israel. The government Veterinary Services supervises the shipments of hatching eggs and day-old chicks abroad. Anak Breeders provides technical assistance and turnkey projects, of the highest professional level, for areas seeking breeding independence. Anak Breeders Ltd. is privately owned by several kibbutzim and Moshavs in Israel. Peterson Farms Inc. Peterson Farms is a privately owned company founded by Lloyd Peterson in 1943. It is situated in Decatur, Arkansas with a distribution centre in Georgia. The company's main product, the Peterson male, is sold in 64 countries around the globe. The Hendrix Group - Hendrix Poultry Breeders Hendrix Poultry Breeders is a family owned business which breeds layer strains marketed under the "Bovans" brand name. The Bovans egg layer breeding company was created in the early 1950s by a group of Dutch poultry breeders. In the mid 1960s the Bovans breeding company merged with Hypeco Poultry Breeders - a Dutch broiler breeder but the broiler line was dropped in 1991 when the companies were taken over by the Hendrix Group. "Bovans" layers are marketed worldwide. Breeding stock and commercial layers are produced from grandparent stock and parent stock operations in more than 60 countries. For the North American market, "Bovans" breeding stock is produced by Centurion Poultry Inc. in Georgia. The Hendrix (Bovans) layer breeding activities are being merged with Euribrid (Hisex) in a 50/50 joint venture in order to expand their joint market position and reduce the overall cost base. The Hendrix Group is composed of several other companies with poultry interests, including Plumex and Plumex Intégra. Babolna Rt. TETRA Babolna has been a centre of animal breeding excellence for over 200 years, and a breeder of brown egg-laying hybrids for the world-wide market for nearly 30 years. The company produces the TETRA-SL and HARCO brown layer breeders. The former was developed at Babolna, and HARCO was transferred from Arbor Acres in 1990. TETRA-SL supplies 70% of the Hungarian layer market. Both TETRA and HARCO are used in over 50 countries covering a diversity of climates and management conditions. Grandparent operations are found in Germany, Peru, India, China and Japan. Babolna Rt. TETRA is a state owned company. Sasso - Sepalm Sasso was created in the late 70s to develop customised strains of meat birds - particularly of coloured breeds. Male and female parent stocks are selected and distributed for cross breeding. Sasso is the main shareholder of Sepalm created in 1978 in response to requests from French producers for a good "foie gras" producing strain. Since then, working in collaboration with INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), the company has developed customised strains of geese for meat purposes and also ducks. Legarth Legarth Breeding Centre is a privately owned company established in 1964. It was taken over by Broholm ApS in 1993 but is still doing a limited amount of goose breeding and sells parent stock. Avian Farms Inc. The basic objective of Avian Farms' genetic program has been the genetic development of "specific products for specific markets". To this end they have developed breeder stock to serve three distinct poultry markets - fresh meat-case products, K.F.C. type products and deboned further processed products. Farms in Texas, Kentucky, Maine and Georgia the USA, and in Holland, and joint ventures in Spain, China, Venezuela, Asia and the Ukraine all ensure that Avian chicks can serve markets world-wide. Avian farms has a close connection with the Charoen Pokphard Group (Thailand), some of whose principals hold shares in Avian Farms. This Group has processing plants in Thailand and China and plants under construction in Indonesia and the USA. Dominant Ltd. The history and tradition of poultry selection and research in Dobrenice dates from 1928 when the State Selection Institute was founded. Dominant was privatized in 1995 and the breeding program for layers and broilers continued. More than 40 lines of high performance poultry lines are maintained and collaboration with the Institute of Molecular Genetics ensures that the pure lines are avian leucosis virus free. Exports are made to 20 countries in the world and the company has large market shares in the Czech and Slovak Republics and in the Ukraine. High performance layer and broiler lines are offered as well as layer lines for alternative farming. Kabir Chicks Ltd. Kabir Chicks Ltd. is an Israeli company established in 1962 by Zvi Katz, the managing director of the company. The Katz family holds 100% of the stock. Kabir specializes in breeding chickens for special markets. Of note are a broiler for extreme climatic and growing conditions, a heavy-weight broiler, 'farm chicken' for the Label market, a coloured broiler for the Chinese market, a special broiler for the Kosher market and a dual purpose bird for Third World markets. Kabir exports breeding stock (great grandparents, grandparents and parents) to 33 countries in 5 continents. Broholm Breeding Centre Broholm is a family run, independent company which has been established as a breeder and distributor of ducks and geese to many countries since 1953. In 1993, Broholm took over the Legarth pure lines which are sold under the trade marks of Danducks and Dangeese. Overview
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