BTG — BETAGRO PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED (Consumer Defensive >> Farm Products)

Description: Betagro Public Company Limited operates through agro-industrial and food business in Thailand, Southeast Asia, the rest of Asia, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Agro Business, Consumer Food Business, Pet Business, and Others. The company produces and distributes livestock and aquaculture feed under the Betagro, BE-LAC, P-LAC, FARM, Balance, MASTER, BIO, and Amina brand names; animal pharmaceuticals, supplements, and hygienic products under the Better Pharma and Nexgen brand names; and packaged fresh, frozen chicken meat, pork meat, eggs, processed food and meat under the BETAGRO, S-Pure, and ITOHAM brands. It provides poultry, pork meat, eggs, processed food and meat, and other food products; fresh pork and poultry products; and pet food products, including snacks for dogs and cats, as well as pet care products, such as medicine, supplementary food, and shampoo. In addition, the company engages in the sale and provision of farm equipment installation services, comprising ventilation systems, feeding, water, layer cage, heating and composter systems, silometric sensors; provides laboratory testing services; leftover animal parts from the slaughterhouse process; rearing and sale of live chicken, pig, fish to farm and industrial processors; swine, poultry, and egg production; operates feed mills, breeding and finishing pig farms, fattening swine and chicken, layer farms, fattening pig contract farms, broiler contract farms with local farmers, poultry farms, Betagro shops, and slaughterhouses; and swine breeder trading. Further, the company operates through consumer food, non-packaged meat products, co-products and by-products, other food, livestock, pet, and other business. Additionally, it sells swine raised free of certain diseases and is involved in the manufacturing and distribution of concentrated soup and extracted oil from animal bones. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.