An absolute leader in Italy in beef sector
Inalca S.p.A. has been operating since 1963 in the beef sector and today it is the absolute leader in Italy and one of Europe's principal operators in this sector.
On 3 March 2008 the 50% acquisition of Inalca S.p.A. by the Brazilian JBS Sa Group, world number one in the production of meat, was concluded. This alliance has a strong strategic value because it guarantees direct access to high quality raw material and synergic commercial development world-wide for the next few years. Based on the agreements, governance of the new Inalca JBS remains entrusted to the Cremonini Group.
Inalca JBS is renowned for the high level of industrialisation of the production process and for the strong compliance to the E.U. regulations concerning safety and for a wide range of processed products.
Inalca JBS, besides realising the first phase of the transormation typical in the slaughtering industry (beef sides, quarters, fresh and frozen cuts), also produces products with a high commercial sevice with the brand Montana (portions, minced, crumbed, pre-cooked, pre-sliced and grilled, canned meat, hamburgers and meat extracts) which contributes added value to the raw materials and guarantees the complete production cycle.
Economic results
Inalca JBS ended 2009 with total revenues of Euro 1,026.5.
These results position Inalca as the absolute leader in the beef sector and one of Europe's principal operators.
The factories
InalcaJBS's productive structure consists of five highly specialised plants according to processing line. The butchering, boning, processing and packing of the meats is performed in Castelvetro di Modena, Ospedaletto Lodigiano (LO) and Roveleto di Cadeo (PC), while the processing and packing is carried out in the plants of Rieti and Capo d'orlando (ME).
All the plants use modern production technologies and state of the art safety systems which have allowed the company to be at the forefront of control methodologies, of network programmes and of the identification and labelling processes of meats.
The products
Inalca JBS sells a complete assortment of beef, fresh and frozen, packed under vacuum or in a protective atmosphere. It also offers the entire range of cuts.
In the canned meat sector, Inalca is Italy's prime producer and exporter (annual productive capacity 200 million cans, both with its own brand and for third parties). It is one of Europe's leading producers and exports, world-wide, with brands such as Bill Beef, Texana, Montex and Tuschonka.
The company is the absolute leader in the frozen hamburger sector, with an annual productive capacity of 40,000 tonnes. It supplies the major international fast food chains and the most important catering and retail operators.
The new ready to cook products "MONTANA"
On the domestic market the Group, has put into place an "umbrella brand" policy by extending the Montana brand from tinned meat to a wide product range with a high service content, such as processed hamburgers, ready pre-cooked meals, veal cutlets, grilled and roasted products sold with the Montana brand.
Sales channels
The main Inalca JBS sales channels are 30% in large scale retail chains, 11% national and multinational food industries, 28% catering and restaurant operators, 20% traditional retailers and the remaining 11% represent others.
The export
The company successfully operates on international markets: over 32% of its revenues come from exports to countries in the European Union, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Code of conduct
INALCA JBS S.p.A, the largest national company in the meat sector, carries out integrated industrial activities extended to all working and manufacturing processes of this sector and is present on all international main markets.
INALCA JBS S.p.A. since its origin has prefixed the business plan of the satisfaction of productive standards required by its own clientele of reference, developing in the time its own ability of planning and develop of products destined to specific market frames.
INALCA JBS S.p.A. believes that the development of an enterprise in the agroindustrial sector is connected to a sustainability that cannot exclusively be limited to the economic dynamics of market, but extends to environmental and social factors capable of assuring a suitable level of maintenance to the primary agricultural activities and the equilibrium of the agricultural productions with the surrounding environment.
For INALCA JBS S.p.A. the base of a sustainable development is concretised, therefore, in a progressive functional and economic integration with the agricultural activities, based on the productive specialization, the interchange and the transfer of the best knowledges and available techniques and the planning of the primary productions.
Aware of its own techical capacities, INALCA JBS S.p.A. has radically developed its production technology and implemented the relevant control systems in order to optimise the management of all the main requirements necessary to satisfy its reference markets, especially:
• Food safety requirements
• Organoleptic requirements;
• Service presentation;
• Respect of the environment;
• Optimal management of workers safety and health;
• Awareness of the company's corporate responsibilities.
INALCA JBS S.p.A. considers essential instruments for the development of the company the use of international standards applied by a single integrated system. INALCA JBS S.p.A. applies the following:
- UNI EN ISO 9001 ed. 2000 "Quality Management Systems";
- ISO 14001 "Environmental Management Systems" ed. 2004;
- BRC British Retail Consortium
- Beef labelling (CE) n. 1760/2000
- Code of conduct concerning the company's corporate responsibilities.
The INALCA JBS S.p.A. management system available for its main clientele, has the objective of "continuous improvement".
This effort, which involves the whole company, is carried out so as to guarantee:
1) That all activities, both compulsory and voluntary, are supervised, managed and documented in terms of quality, environmental protection, safety in the workplace and corporate responsibility;
2) That the highest level of food safety is always considered as the first requirement for all the company's products;
3) That information concerning the corporate quality-environment-safety-responsibility system becomes more accessible to the offices involved, clients and suppliers and are coherent with corporate objectives;
4) That the current policy is easily available to the public and employees with transparency in communication and effectiveness in replying to the requests of external and internal subjects;
5) That production activities are closely controlled in relation to contractual obligations undertaken with clients;
6) That the number of errors and level of non-conformity in production activities are reduced in order to reduce the work required to correct them;
7) The identification of environmental risks, real or hypothetical, that are or may be caused by production processes and other INALCA JBS S.p.A. activities, especially:
- The commitment to prevent environmental risks due to work accidents or anomalies;
- The continuous commitment to study and apply methods and solutions to reduce the environmental impact of our work and to limit the use of raw resources and materials, avoiding wasting materials and energy;
- Rationalising the use of resources and energy and, when possible, re-cycling or re-using leftovers and waste;
- Identifying well-defined and quantifiable objectives and goals for improving the environment;
- Conformity with possible requests or environmental prescriptions provided by our clients or other requirements undersigned by the company or the group.
8) That safety and prevention in the workplace is supervised, managed and shared, with both workers and contracted third party companies;
9) That effects on the company's activities due to the application of ethical codes of conduct drafted or received by INALCA JBS S.p.A. are supervised and managed, and especially that;
- Employees are adequately remunerated and can count on salaries which conform to the applicable national laws;
- There is no discrimination in employing personnel and in the methods of employment for reasons of race, skin colour, religion, sex, age, physical capabilities, nationality or any other prohibited reason;
- Employees are provided with a safe and healthy working environment;
- Suppliers are requested to conform to this policy.
10) That all its suppliers are involved in the quest of its own goals
Coherently with its code of conduct, the company Directorate will periodically define and re-examine the improvement objectives.
The full participation of every one of us is required to implement and maintain this policy of care and attention, with the awareness that everyone's work is the base for attaining this important objective.
