Minerva Foods is a Brazilian food company founded in 1924 in the city of Barretos, São Paulo. The company is specializes in the trading of fresh beef, leather, derivatives, and the export of live cattle, as well as meat processing. It is the second-largest beef company in Brazil and Uruguay and the largest beef exporter in Paraguay, Colombia, and Argentina. It sells its products in over 100 countries. Minerva operates 26 slaughter and deboning plants and 3 processing plants, with a daily capacity to slaughter and debone approximately 54,000 heads of cattle. Wikipedia