Grupo Cañigueral is a solid holding company in the food sector with more than half a century of experience. Born in 1965, we have grown while preserving our origins and family vocation. Today, led by the second generation, we keep alive the values inherited from our foundation: concern for people, continuous improvement through effort and passion for a job well done.
We organise our line of business in 4 large divisions: our own livestock, high quality fresh meat, traditional cured sausages and exquisite processed products, which allow us to obtain 360º traceability throughout our chain.
GRUP CAÑIGUERAL manufactures COSTA BRAVA MEDITERRANEAN FOODS products.
Companies: FRIGORIFICS COSTA BRAVA S.A., EMBUTIDOS MONTER S.L., COOPECARN GIRONA S.L.U., FRESCOS Y ELABORADOS DELISANO S.A., EMBUTIDOS CASEROS COLLELL, FRIGORÍFICOS CÁRNICOS LAS FORCAS, S.L., and COSTA BRAVA MEDITERRANEAN FOODS USA, LLC .
We’re a dynamic industry. We control the whole value chain, from the farm to the plate, a 360º industry where we ensure the quality of all our products and the transparency demanded by our customers and consumers. From our 17 specialist plants, certified for the main export destinations, we distribute a wide portfolio of pork and beef products across the whole world. And we go beyond that, with innovative cured turkey or chicken charcuterie and non-meat based products such as our spinach, cheese, cod and cuttlefish croquettes...
We offer solutions adapted to the needs of the 21st century with food safety and quality so that you enjoy your time for yourself and your loved ones.
Our team is the driving force of the organisation. More than 4,000 qualified people committed to animal welfare, innovation, food safety, quality, production processes, logistics and transport, so that the product arrives fresh on the shelves every day.
All people add up, and they are our greatest asset.
In 2020, the Cañigueral Group set up the investee company Pig Livestock Union S.L. (PLU) to grow its own livestock, both through the direct acquisition of farms and through vertical integration.
In 2021, PLU completed the purchase of Leridana de Piensos, a company founded in 1974 with extensive pig production. This network allows the Group to guarantee the necessary raw material, with the quality pigs demanded by our customers (Duroc pigs and with a higher percentage of infiltrated fat) and animals certified in animal welfare.
All our farms, both our own and integrated farms, have Welfair Quality certifications that guarantee healthy, well-fed and hydrated animals. All of them also work with domestically produced piglets and apply strict biosecurity and sustainability protocols.
Our 17 production plants are located in rural areas on the Mediterranean shore, except for our first international plant in Virginia (United States), creating economic dynamism and helping to stabilize the population. Overall, we have more than 200.000 m2 of industrial land, specialised by product type.
Our goal is to be efficient and this means exploring new ways of production. Such as, for example, the quartering, cutting and packing of our meat which is carried out in continuous flow, without stock in order to capture optimum freshness, and guarantee you get products of only the highest quality, whether they’re fresh or frozen.
Innovating in processes allows us to offer you new sensations on your palate. The juiciest hamburger meat because it’s made using the “low pressure” technique, offering a loose texture... Innovating is also using advanced technology to return to the past and replicate, step by step, the process of our grandmothers, making croquettes with creamy dough and fine and crunchy breaded batter, like ours. No one else makes them like this.
Together with INNOVAC, we are researching the recovery of proteins from slaughterhouses ( Read more ).
Defines our global strategy to act with honesty and integrity, based on a socially and environmentally responsible commitment.
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Download PDFOur aim to offer food products of the highest quality, balanced and healthy, made with sustainability and adapted to the tastes and needs of today's consumers, involves promoting products that include as few artificial ingredients as possible, labels that provide the most comprehensible information possible and basing our actions on the defence of a balanced and healthy diet.
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Descargar el PDFAn animal is in a satisfactory state of welfare when it is healthy, free from hunger and thirst, with comfort in the resting area, thermal comfort, ease of movement, freedom from injury, disease and pain, and appropriate behaviour.
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Download PDFThe founders, Joan, Joaquím and Càndid Cañigueral, started their family business in Cassà de la Selva (Girona), which later became the company JOAN CAÑIGUERAL S.A. and the commercial brand “MONTER” came into existence.
Later, commercialisation was extended in Barcelona and the surrounding area, with a centre in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.
Beginning of the activity of FRIGORIFICS COSTA BRAVA S.A. which has a pig slaughtering and cutting room.
EMBUTIDOS MONTER, S.L. was founded and the premises of a cured charcuterie factory in Sant Jaume de Llierca were acquired.
Creation of a clean room in the Sant Jaume de Llierca factory, with an expansion of the facilities, increasing the number of slicing lines and improving capacity and productivity.
The Cañigueral family acquired the Productos Cárnicos Pirene factory, in Les Planes d’Hostoles, in order to continue the business expansion.
In 2002 we launched the first cured turkey meat on the national Spanish market. Healthier products: up to 30% less fat.
Our Frigorífics Costa Brava plant has been approved by the Chinese authorities to export boneless ham and other pork products to China.
Acquisition of Coopecarn Girona S.L. (Quart). New activity with marinated and frozen meat, mostly for exportation.
Our Frigoríficos Costa Brava factory entered in the Japanese market.
One of our milestones in technology: Autonomous robot vehicles are implemented that circulate through magnetic fields, take our cured meats to the drying sheds and check that the curing process is in accordance with the defined pattern for each product.
A year later, the second phase of expansion of the Les Planes centre began, with new drying sheds.
Costa Brava is the first national company approved for the exportation of white-layer pork meat to the United States, thanks to having passed the most demanding standards for quality and food safety in the world.
Pernils Llémena, co-partnered by Embutidos Collell, part of Grup Cañigueral, begins exporting Serrano ham to the US and Australian markets.
Frigoríficos Costa Brava presents an extension of its factory in Riudellots, which totals 40,810 m², with a team of more than 1,300 specialised workers. With the subsequent expansion of the Vilamalla plant, it now has a total of more than 1,800 workers, more than 61,000 m² and a production capacity of more than 3.2 million pigs per year.
Our traditional star product, Serrano ham, has made a new entry into one of the world's major markets, the Japanese market. Three years later, in 2019, this product enters the Chinese market.
New addition to the Cañigueral Group: FRESCOS Y ELABORADOS DELISANO S.A.U., an innovative plant specialising in cutting and packaging.
Committed to freshness (production without stocks), it works with fresh pork, and specialises in processed products such as the widest range of gluten-free croquettes, breaded products and burger meats.
It is based in Cheste (Valencia) and has a workforce of more than 1,000 people.
Grup Cañigueral acquired the company FAR Jamón Serrano, S.A.U., located in Les Preses (Girona) with the aim of introducing the entire range of cured meats in the Group, diversifying business and expanding sales with increased exports.
We created a charcuterie package with a sustainability goal: the cuatripack, towards zero waste.
We updated our product catalogue with an innovative healthy option: chicken charcuterie in snack-type packaging, easy to eat anywhere.
In February, Grupo Cañigueral acquired new facilities in Vilamalla (Girona), which add 20,500 square metres more and become the company's second cutting plant. Including this plant and the one in Riudellots, the company has 61,280 m², more than 1,800 specialised workers and a production capacity of more than 3.2 million pigs per year.
In October, the Group presented the new international brand COSTA BRAVA MEDITERRANEAN FOODS, which brings together all the products of all the companies.
The SIAL PARIS International Fair, held from the 21st to the 25th of this month, was its commercial baptism.
Costa Brava Mediterranean Foods acquires the company Embutidos Caseros Collell, S.L.U. The four plants, located in the province of Girona, Les Preses, Sant Esteve de Llémena and Olot (2), will strengthen and expand a very important area for the Group, cured meats: sausages and cured ham.
The COSTA BRAVA MEDITERRANEAN FOODS portfolio includes beef products from the company FRICAFOR. From then on the new and extensive beef group was added to fresh pork, prepared meat-based products and charcuterie and snacks.
We are multiplying our efforts and precautions in these difficult times at Covid so that you can continue to have access to the highest quality and most food-safe staple products. Stay at home, you won't be short of anything. #EstoNoTieneQueParar
We have begun to conduct external sustainability audits, a commitment that requires us to improve our ESG indicators year on year, in the environmental, social and governance areas. They are our true sustainability roadmap. This year we also started calculating our carbon footprint.
Pig Livestock Union SL is created with Vall Companys, in which Costa Brava Mediterranean Foods holds a 60% stake, to buy Leridana de Piensos and the million pigs per year that will go entirely into our production chain. We are increasing our livestock production with the objectives of having more pigs with animal welfare certification, achieving higher quality animals and guaranteeing our raw material.
Expansions of 8,000 m² of our Serrano ham plant, which will allow us to grow in capacity and also in quality, as it will enable us to increase the average curing period. We continue to consolidate our position as one of the main ham producers in Spain.
In Costa Brava Mediterranean Foods we have solar panels in our largest plants, and we continue to plan to install them in more plants. This year is also the first year in which we have 100% energy from renewable sources throughout the Group.
We acquired a stake in a Serrano ham dryer, Jamcal Alimentación, located in Calamocha, Teruel. This move allows us to increase our ham production, one of the Group's objectives, and to climb positions as one of the country's largest producers of this delicious and traditional product.
After completing the installation of our slicing lines for Serrano ham and charcuterie in Toano, Virginia, we can announce our first international production plant. This new plant, which becomes the Group's 17th, is focused on producing for the entire US market, in order to gain presence and visibility in one of the most important markets in the world.
We have strengthened the Latin American market by opening a new product line, our cured meats, in an area where we were previously only present with our fresh/frozen meat. This year we have closed agreements with important partners in the area that make us strategic partners to take our cured meats to large retailers in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Central America...