An agrifood group with different reporting boundaries
Vall Companys is a Spanish agrifood group headed by Inversions Fenec, S.L. Its operational headquarters are in Lleida; the non-financial report identifies the parent at Calle Núñez de Balboa, 35, Madrid. Vall Companys, S.A.U., which produces animal feed and pigs, is one of its companies. The parent, that subsidiary and commercial brands are distinct entities.
This profile uses the consolidated group for 2025 turnover. CEGECO, Compañía General de Compras Agropecuarias, S.L.U., is identified as the corporate website’s service provider. That does not make its separate revenue the group’s revenue.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 20 (PDF p. 11) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 129 (PDF p. 65) · Vall Companys: visit to the Lleida headquarters, 19 March 2025 · Vall Companys: legal notice.
From La Meta to integrated food production
The corporate history traces the business to the La Meta flour mill in 1956. Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana attributes its purchase to brothers Josep Maria and Antoni Vall i Companys. Breadmaking flour production expanded into animal feed and early experiments in integrated pig farming.
During the 1970s that model became established and extended to poultry. Transport, veterinary pharmaceuticals, genetics and industrial plants were added later. Slaughterhouse acquisitions strengthened integration between 2000 and 2010; subsequent stages expanded processed and cured products, digitalisation and international operations.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 18–19 (PDF p. 10) · Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana: history of Vall Companys.
Family ownership and divisional management
Corporate communications in 2026 describe Vall Companys as a family group. The non-financial report identifies Inversions Fenec as its parent and the board as responsible for strategy and oversight. Each company has a management body for executive decisions. The reviewed sources do not establish current individual ownership percentages here.
Documented divisional leaders in 2026 include Albert Morera, managing director of the pig division, identified by the Barcelona Chamber on 9 June, and Josep Solé, managing director of the poultry division, named by the group on 26 February. These are divisional roles and are not presented as a single chief executive position covering every company.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 112 (PDF p. 57) · Barcelona Chamber: Albert Morera, 9 June 2026 · Vall Companys: Josep Solé at AECOC, 26 February 2026.
Connecting farms, industry and services
The model brings together animal feed, breeding and rearing, meat production, processing, distribution and supporting activities. It also produces breadmaking flour and provides genetics, animal health, purchasing and transport services. Coordinating these stages explains the business: selling a finished product depends on distinct agricultural, livestock and industrial operations.
The report counts 2,709 associated farms using their REGA registration codes, linked to the companies specified in its methodology note. Association or integration does not establish group ownership of every farm’s land and facilities. Nor does it make each farm an additional business whose revenue should be added to the consolidated total.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 20–21 (PDF p. 11) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 24–25 (PDF p. 13).
Products and customers across the food chain
Activities include pork, poultry and beef, cured ham and processed meat, alongside feed and flour. Consumer brands shown in the report include BonPollo, Dolz, La Joya, Silencio de Jabugo, Finura and Frimancha. These are catalogue examples rather than a list of independent companies.
Customers include wholesalers, meat manufacturers, slaughterhouses, major retailers, smaller shops and food service businesses. The importance of business customers helps explain why substantial operations are less visible than supermarket brands. Product food safety and the occupational safety and health of the people producing it require different evidence.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 21 (PDF p. 11) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 26–27 (PDF p. 14).
Spain, Portugal and international expansion
Plants and sites are concentrated mainly in Spain, including the Balearic and Canary Islands, with operations in Portugal and Mexican companies joining the 2025 reporting perimeter. The report explains that Latin American expansion began through investments in family businesses and that Vall Pork México and Vallyava became fully consolidated in 2025.
The sales breakdown assigns 77.3% to the domestic market and 22.7% to foreign markets. These are commercial percentages for the year, not a workforce distribution or evidence that all international investees use the same consolidation method.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 24–25 (PDF p. 13) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 26 (PDF p. 14).
2025 turnover and the comparison basis
The report records total sales of EUR4,625.841 million in 2025, against EUR4,162.804 million in 2024, describing rounded growth of 11%. It links part of the change to newly incorporated companies, so the entire increase cannot be attributed to organic growth.
The economic summary, which the report says is drawn from audited consolidated accounts, rounds turnover to EUR4,626 million: EUR4,571 million of sales and EUR55 million of services. This profile uses the group total and preserves that documentary basis. Aggregated tax-reporting revenue and Vall Companys, S.A.U.’s separate turnover are not substituted for it.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 26 (PDF p. 14) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 120–121 (PDF p. 61).
Consolidated employees and the broader collaborator figure
The workforce table for fully consolidated companies records 9,761 people at year-end 2025: 9,317 in Spain, 41 in Portugal and 403 in Mexico. Of that total, 9,191 had permanent contracts and 570 temporary contracts. Newly incorporated companies change the perimeter compared with 2024.
The headline figures use a different measure: 17,336 collaborators. That table does not reconcile the number with the 9,761 employees. This profile therefore uses the workforce section for employment comparisons and does not use the broader collaborator figure as an accident-rate denominator.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 74–75 (PDF p. 38) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 14–15 (PDF p. 8).
Research applied to processes and products
The 2025 report describes studies of pig and poultry nutrition, animal health and welfare, manure processing and emissions reduction, alongside digital technologies for farms and industrial operations. It also identifies meat product development and process improvements.
These are company-reported workstreams. Their existence alone does not demonstrate accident reduction or establish that a digital tool makes autonomous prevention decisions. Assessing an OSH improvement would require connecting the process change to exposure and outcomes in the particular job.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 120 (PDF p. 61).
Training subjects and reporting scope
The group reported training expenditure of EUR1,418,591 in 2025. Its hours table totals 67,786, with company exclusions identified in the notes. The figure covers different subjects and should not be described as 67,786 hours of occupational safety training.
The report does identify specific preventive topics: maintenance, work at height, confined spaces, emergencies, forklift trucks, psychosocial risks and stress management. It also records a theoretical and practical incident and accident investigation course in 2025. Separating these programmes from the overall total avoids treating all business training as an OSH measure.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 88–89 (PDF p. 45) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 90 (PDF p. 46) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 82–83 (PDF p. 42).
How prevention is organised
The report describes a common safety and health system with group coordination and prevention leads in individual companies. Depending on each company’s organisation, in-house or shared prevention services work alongside external prevention-service specialists. The July 2025 policy assigns responsibilities at different levels and covers people providing services at the facilities.
The system uses an application to follow preventive and corrective measures and working groups that share problems and solutions. These tools describe an organisational approach. Their availability does not automatically establish that every risk is controlled or that every company is certified.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 81 (PDF p. 41) · Wellbeing and Occupational Prevention Policy, July 2025, p. 1 (PDF p. 1).
Noise, machinery, explosions and transport
The 2025 report describes risk assessments and periodic noise measurements where appropriate. Plant prevention leads check equipment, installations and implementation of instructions. The annual safety meeting covered explosive atmospheres, work permits, equipment isolation and coordination between businesses.
Specific measures included machinery and production-line adaptations, updated explosion-protection documents at flour and feed mills, preventive improvements in chemical stores and continued internal audits. Transegre fleet improvements included a fall-protection lifeline. These are specific actions reported for 2025; the report does not separately quantify the effectiveness of each measure.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 82–83 (PDF p. 42).
Ergonomics and health promotion
The Empresa Saludable programme includes occupational hygiene and ergonomic studies, training on musculoskeletal disorders and collaboration with mutual insurance organisations. The report mentions warm-up exercises and access to physiotherapy at selected sites, without extending that service to the entire network.
It also describes medical check-ups, mental health campaigns and sites equipped with defibrillators and training. Health promotion accompanies job-specific prevention but does not replace it. This profile attributes no specific clinical benefit or injury reduction to programmes whose effectiveness is not separately evaluated.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 86–87 (PDF p. 44).
Worker participation and contractor coordination
The business-activity coordination platform manages prevention information with external companies. The reported training also covers subcontractors working at the facilities. The report identifies safety and health committees, representatives or internal groups, depending on the organisation, and translation of instructions where needed.
Proyecto Participa collects proposals concerning tasks, installations and equipment. Connecting consultation, technical assessment and follow-up is particularly relevant where shifts, maintenance and different employers overlap. Sending documentation alone is not equated with effective coordination during each intervention.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 81 (PDF p. 41) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 82–83 (PDF p. 42) · Wellbeing and Occupational Prevention Policy, July 2025, p. 1 (PDF p. 1).
Injuries: what the figure of 790 includes
The 2025 table records 790 occupational injuries, with and without time off: 189 among women and 601 among men. It reports zero fatalities and zero high-consequence injuries within that dataset. Ergonomic complaints and cuts are identified as the main injury types. The occupational illness table records eight cases among women and six among men.
These tables exclude several companies, including Inasur, Agroalimentaria Chico, Vall Pork México and Vallyava; the full list appears in the notes on pages 84–85. Working hours are estimated and the rates have further specific exclusions. The 751 cases reported for 2024 use a different perimeter. These figures should not be treated as universal group outcomes or as a comparable trend without adjusting coverage.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 84–85 (PDF p. 43).
Certification limited to identified companies
The 2025 report states that ISO 45001-certified management systems operate at Patel, S.A.U.; Grupo SADA PA, S.A.; Cárnicas Frivall, S.L.U.; and Cárnicas Cinco Villas, S.A. This list does not establish universal certification of Inversions Fenec or all its investees, nor the current validity of each certificate without checking the relevant document.
The distinction also applies to Empresa Saludable, which has a different list of certified companies. ISO 45001, human-resources recognition, food safety and wellbeing programmes address different subjects. None is equivalent to an absence of accidents.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 81 (PDF p. 41) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 86 (PDF p. 44).
African swine fever, reorganisation and internal controls
The report links some market closures to African swine fever detected in November 2025. On 30 October 2026, ACN reported a force-majeure temporary employment adjustment at Patel in L’Esquirol affecting about 450 people, including employees and subcontracted personnel. The company attributed suspension of one shift to trade restrictions; it is not presented here as permanent closure.
Separately, the non-financial report records twelve communications concerning alleged human-rights violations in 2025 and says investigations and appropriate measures followed. It provides no breakdown that would justify treating them as twelve established infringements or identifying their individual outcomes.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 25 (PDF p. 13) · ACN/Nació: Patel temporary employment adjustment, 30 October 2026 · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 115 (PDF p. 58).
Circularity and the limits of the evidence
The Penta programme covers climate and circularity, animal welfare, people, quality and innovation, and responsible management. The report identifies treated-water reuse initiatives at Patel and Cárnicas Frivall and water-risk studies at production sites. Environmental actions need their own reporting scope and do not provide indirect proof of occupational safety.
The non-financial report covers January–December 2025 and states that RSM verified it. A signed assurance report has not been identified in the consulted file, so this profile does not attribute an assurance level, date or verifier’s opinion that has not been inspected. The documentation supports examination of measures and reporting limits without turning corporate statements into guarantees of outcomes.
2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 38–39 (PDF p. 20) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 50–51 (PDF p. 26) · 2025 sustainability report: Vall Companys Group (Inversions Fenec), p. 124–125 (PDF p. 63).
Frequently asked questions
Is Vall Companys, S.A.U. the same as Vall Companys Group?
No. The group parent is Inversions Fenec, S.L. Vall Companys, S.A.U. is an operating company in feed and pig production. CEGECO provides the corporate website. This profile uses consolidated turnover and specifies the workforce and OSH reporting perimeters. [1] · [2]
Who founded Vall Companys?
The corporate history dates the origins to the La Meta flour mill in 1956. Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana attributes its purchase to brothers Josep Maria and Antoni Vall i Companys. The business expanded from flour to feed and integrated livestock production. This historical reference does not establish today’s ownership percentages. [1] · [2]
What was group turnover in 2025?
The non-financial report gives total sales of EUR4,625.841 million and rounds turnover to EUR4,626 million, including services. It states that the economic summary comes from audited consolidated accounts. The figure concerns the group rather than one subsidiary, and growth is affected by additions to the consolidation perimeter. [1]
Which company-specific OSH measures are documented?
The 2025 report describes group prevention coordination, a contractor platform, risk and noise assessment, machinery adaptations, explosion protection at flour and feed mills, and improved fall protection at Transegre. It also identifies training, worker participation, ergonomics and health initiatives at specified sites. [1] · [2]
Do the 790 injuries cover the entire workforce?
No. The 2025 table records 790 occupational injuries with and without time off but excludes companies listed in the notes on pages 84–85, including some acquisitions and the Mexican companies. Hours are estimated and rates have additional exclusions. The profile neither divides these cases by the entire workforce nor asserts a comparable trend against 2024. [1]
Is the entire group ISO 45001 certified?
The 2025 report identifies Patel, Grupo SADA PA, Cárnicas Frivall and Cárnicas Cinco Villas. That statement concerns specific companies and the reporting year. It does not establish universal certification or the current validity of each individual certificate. Empresa Saludable and food-safety certifications have different scopes. [1]
