Who owns Friboi?
Friboi is owned by JBS (Brazil, B3: JBSS3).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: JBS S.A. Annual Report 2025, 26 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- JBS S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇧🇷 Brazil, São Paulo
- Origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Founded
- 1953
- Category
- Food › Meat, poultry & seafood › Fresh meat & poultry
- Parent ticker
- B3: JBSS3 NYSE: JBS
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Friboi
Friboi is the founding JBS beef brand in Brazil and the largest branded beef in the country. The company invested heavily in advertising it in the 2010s, an unusual step in a market where beef had almost always been sold as an unbranded commodity.
Ownership timeline of Friboi
Where Friboi sits in JBS
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by JBS
JBS controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in fresh meat & poultry, and who owns them
The 56 brands in fresh meat & poultry on Brandtree belong to 27 owners. The largest is LDC, with 6; JBS has 3.
About the owner: JBS
JBS is a publicly listed company headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 1953. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as B3: JBSS3 and NYSE: JBS.
JBS was founded in 1953 as a small Brazilian slaughterhouse and is now the largest meat processing company in the world by revenue, operating in more than fifteen countries. It expanded into the United States by acquiring Swift and Pilgrim's Pride, and is controlled by the founding Batista family through J&F Investimentos.
🇧🇷 Friboi and other Brazilian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 177 brands that began in Brazil. 32 of them (18%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Friboi is not one of them.
- Adria — M. Dias Branco 🇧🇷
- Biotônico Fontoura — Hypera 🇧🇷
- Camil — Camil 🇧🇷
- Guarani — Tereos 🇫🇷
- Perdigão — MBRF 🇧🇷
- Queensberry — Hero Group 🇨🇭
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Friboi?
The parent company of Friboi is JBS, a publicly listed company headquartered in Brazil.
Is Friboi Brazilian?
Yes. Friboi originated in Brazil in 1953 and its owner, JBS, is also headquartered in Brazil.
Is Friboi still owned by JBS?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Friboi is still owned by JBS. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] JBS S.A. Annual Report 2025 — JBS S.A., Annual report, published 26 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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