Bachoco Snapshot
As Mexico's leading chicken and chicken egg producer, Industrias Bachoco doesn't care if the chicken or the egg came first. The company operates poultry production and distribution facilities throughout Mexico and accounted for more than 30% of Mexico's total chicken production in 2008. Bachoco breeds, processes, and markets chicken (accounting for about 77% of the company's sales that same year). It produces and distributes eggs, swine, and animal feed. Although it brings in less than 1% of the company's sales, Bachoco also offers turkey and selected value-added beef products. (It raises no turkey or cattle, it only processes them.) The Robinson Bours family owns an 83% interest in the company.