JBS Swift & Company is made up of 40,000 people, with plants and offices in 5 different continents and 13 different countries - Brazil, USA, Australia, Chile, Hong Kong, Egypt and England with exporting capacity to all nations of the world. The company was founded by Jose Batista Sobrinho, also known as "Ze Mineiro" in 1953 in the city of Anapolis, in the state of Goias Brazil. He had no idea that just 50 years later, his company would unite with Swift USA and Swift Australia creating a huge, global company. Today JBS has businesses in such diverse areas as Agribusiness, Food, Distribution and Transportation, Household Cleaning Products, Asset Management, and Retail Banking. We are the global leader in meat processing industry.