Vall’s agri-food group ended the 2023 financial year with sales of €4,148 million, taking into account its operations throughout Spain. According to the annual accounts filed with the Commercial Register, the group’s operations increased by 38% compared to €3,010 million the previous year. The group, which consists of around 45 companies in Spain, made a net profit of €243 million last year, more than double that in 2022, when it reached €110 million.
With its central services in Lleida and a total of fifteen companies in its delimitation and area of influence, the company has become a major player in the Spanish and European agri-food sector. In fact, taking into account the group’s companies in Lleida and its surroundings, it was this area that focused the largest volume of investment in its production plants. Specifically, investment in Lleida and its area of influence rose to €27.7 million, 12% more than the previous year, benefiting local service providers. In this chapter, the $8.6 million allocated for the construction, adaptation and start-up of the Al Manar plant stands out. The rental of new trucks and the adaptation to biosecurity measures for poultry included investments of $5.6 million. The Avidel chicken slaughterhouse recorded improvements in machinery, production processes and renewable energy for $3.2 million.
The group made a net profit of $243 million last year, compared to $110 million the previous year.
Thus, throughout the financial year, investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and optimization of production processes stand out to keep the plants globally competitive, as well as in particular in the new Al Manar feed mill. The volume of sales to third parties generated by Lleida companies grows by 5% and rises to 655.5 million, strengthening the zero kilometer and the company’s asset
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The company emphasizes that it has always bet on Lleida and its area of influence and gives as examples the strengthening of the flour business, the livestock integration contracts or the industrial poultry business. In 2023, the Vall Group of Companies, as a company, has begun to implement actions of a social nature that strengthen its attachment to the city of Lleida.
On the one hand, it promoted the Grup Vall – UdL Chair: Sustainable Food with the aim of promoting knowledge exchange and consolidating and attracting the best university talent. The Chair organized two awards to honor the best final degree thesis and the best final master’s thesis, and in return, the Vall Companys Group also became a collaborator with the Colles de l’Aplec del Snail consortium from Lleida.
Create 1,950 new jobs in 2023
The increase in trading volume has created more jobs, specifically 1,943 positions, according to the group. An increase of 9.5%, much higher than the growth in operations. This increase is due to the recruitment of professionals in all companies, especially transporters at the logistics level, and the start-up of the new Al Manar feed mill. The company has more than 2,600 associated farms and closed in 2023 with 12,558 direct jobs in central production and service plants. It has been awarded the Top Employer certification for the fourth consecutive year from 2020 to 2024, making it a reference company in the field of recruitment. The Vale Group has more than 200 training agreements with universities and vocational training centers throughout Spain, many of them in Lleida and Catalonia. Since 2017, the Vale Group has gradually been established as a minority shareholder in Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador. Uruguay and Brazil, and all operations have been based on building synergies and exchanges know how Strengthening the livestock and meat value chain. The implementation conditions stipulate that these markets must suffer from a deficit in national production, so local production must be encouraged. On the other hand, the year 2023 also stands out for strengthening the group’s Iberian pork project.
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