Brazil: Minas Gerais slaughterhouse takes pork to the world

“This is a story of planning, determination and quality.” Thus, the director and president of the Board of Directors of Saudali, Tito Garavini, summarizes the trajectory of the slaughterhouse that was opened in 2000, in the municipality of Ponte Nova, in Vale do Piranga, Zona da Mata, with the aim of improving the quality of pork produced in the region and conquer the Brazilian and international market. In terms of planning, the story begins five years earlier, when a group of pig farmers decided to create an agribusiness to promote the production of animal protein. Today, what seemed like a difficult dream to become a reality, generates around 1,700 direct jobs and should end the year with revenues close to R$1 billion. And it is on this same path of innovation and understanding, that it is people who ‘do the business’, that Saudali arrives at today’s edition of the Mineiridade series. Between 1995 and 2000, the group, with around 50 partners, prepared to launch Saudali. During ...