Plukon Food Group is an internationally active corporate group in the meat industry. It is one of the largest processors of poultry meat in Europe.[2]
In 2019, Plukon was the second largest chicken processor in the EU, as well as 16th in the world, with a slaughter volume of 426 million chickens.[3]
The activities of the group are concentrated in the company Bankiva B.V. headquartered in Wezep in the Netherlands.[4] The group has three shareholders: the German EW Group, the Dutch feed company De Heus, and the directors around Peter Poortinga, who together own 25% of the shares.[2]
History
In 1978, Plukon was created as a merger of the 1964 established brand Friki and the poultry company Bekebrede in