Corporate InformationTrust, cooperation, and Japan’s top level of technological innovation

Corporate Profile

  • Name:

    Global Pig Farms, Inc.

  • Representative:

    Katsuyoshi Akachi, Representative Director

  • Address:

    800 Kamihakoda, Hokkitsu-machi, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma,
    377-0052, Japan

  • Phone:

    +81-279-52-3753

  • Facsimile:

    +81-279-52-3579

  • Founded:

    June 1983

  • Capital:

    179.2 million yen

  • Annual sales:

    33 billion 161 million yen (FY2016)

  • No. of employees:

    140

Business Policy

  1. To bring together the power of individual small-scale (family-operated) farms on a basis of trust and cooperation and introduce Japan’s top level of technological innovation in order to improve the management and increase the productivity of each enterprise.
  2. To increase awareness among employees at all levels and promote technological innovation within an integrated system of production and distribution, in order to offer customers safe and delicious pork with no compromises.

Features of Our Management

  1. Realizing an integrated pork production chain
    We have created a supply chain for Waton Mochibuta that integrates the entire process, from stock breeding and feed design to production management, shipment, and sales. This integration of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries allows us to exert comprehensive control over every procedure.
  2. A cooperative organization formed through investments by family-run pig farms
    Requirements for investors:
    • 1）Incorporation as a business
    • 2）Submission of financial and production data
    • 3）Use of the same breeding stock as other member farms
    • 4）Use of the same feed as other member farms
    • 5）Shipment of all stock through the Global Pig Farms supply chain
  3. Vertical technological innovation
    We promote technological innovation in all pork industry processes – including breeding, feed design, pig raising, pork production and distribution, and financial management – based on a philosophy that is shared by the entire group.
  4. Management scale (FY2016)
    • Number of group farms:79
    • Total number of dams:24,558
    • Shipping volume (per year):559,458 pigs*
    • *542,481 market pigs, 5,005 pigs as breeding stock, and 11,972 pigs as culled breeding stock