MILESTONES
QUALITY POLICY
Our Group is committed to continuous improvement and to meeting the expectations placed upon us. In line with this commitment, we operate an integrated food safety management system in accordance with the IFS standard. Our employees carry out their work with full regard to good manufacturing and hygiene practices, as well as food safety and environmental regulations, to ensure that our products are always of high quality and safe to consume. Our products are produced and delivered under controlled conditions and regular inspections. The safe and lawful production of food is ensured through the operation of the HACCP system.
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
Feed production
Each year, Gallus Group produces 24 thousand tonnes of feed for its broiler chickens in its feed mixing plant. The feed is hygienised and de-salmonised at high temperatures, and its quality is constantly inspected in the company’s own laboratory.
Parent pair rearing
We are committed to ensuring the highest quality hybrid meat breeding pairs, as this is the basis for producing high quality hatching eggs. Each year we rear around 650,000 breeding pairs, which the company keeps in nearly 200 poultry houses. This represents more than 25 percent of the domestic production. The hatching eggs produced by the breeding pairs are sent to the Gallus Group hatcheries.
Hatching
The eggs from our own breeding pairs are hatched in-house and sold as day-old chicks on the domestic and export markets. Our broiler day-old chick hatcheries in Devecser and Bábolna have been modernised with the help of EU funding to incorporate the most advanced hatching technology. As a result, we now have one of the largest and most modern broiler hatcheries in Hungary. The group has two more hatcheries in Zala County. Our hatcheries have a combined capacity to hatch 125 million eggs.
Broiler chicken rearing
As part of a full integration operation, we raise our broiler chickens ourselves. Our rearing activities are carried out to the highest quality standards and under constant quality control. We pay particular attention to the quality of the feed, we do not feed the chickens animal protein and we seek the optimum housing conditions. We monitor the health status of our birds under constant veterinary control and with a veterinary laboratory background. It is of paramount importance to us that the birds live a healthy life in a good environment.
At our sites, we have installed a security and remote monitoring system that constantly monitors the conditions to ensure that they are in compliance with the regulations, sending an immediate alert to the security centre if it detects any faults or sub-optimal conditions. All measurement results and values are available retrospectively, ensuring that the high quality requirements are fully met on an ongoing basis.
Processing
Broiler chickens reared in our integration are processed in our slaughterhouse in Sárvár. This is where the group’s fresh and frozen products are made. In 2016, the Gallus Group invested more than HUF 1 billion in the slaughterhouse, which will enable the slaughter of 15 million broilers per year. In addition to the development of the slaughterhouse, the product range is also being continuously expanded: in line with market demand, we have increased the volume of fresh products in equalised protective gas packaging and the sale of premium products. Every year, new processing and packaging machines are added to the Sárvár slaughterhouse, while production volumes are also constantly increasing.
Oven ready products
We produce our seasoned grill and minced meat convenience food products in the Bakonypölöske processing plant in protective gas and vacuum packed packaging, which can be found mainly in large Hungarian retail chains.
We pay particular attention to product development, which means that every year we are able to introduce new products together with our partners.
DIRECTION
Ákos Szabó
Managing Director
Péter Szabó
Managing Director
Zsolt Salamon
Director of Finance
Szabó Marianna
HR Director
András Tóth
IT Director
Lajos Lajtos
Production Director
Bálint Vozár
Technical Director
György Horváth-Takács
Supply Chain Director
Founded in 1991, Gallus Ltd. was the first member of our Group, starting with barely 100 employees. Over the past 30 years, the company has grown steadily, and today the family-owned business has developed into a Group employing more than 1,000 people, operating successfully at 36 sites across 6 counties. The main activities of Gallus Ltd. include feed production and drying, feed raw material and compound feed manufacturing, parent stock rearing, hatching egg production, broiler chick hatching and rearing, as well as the sale of day-old chicks. Our products are present on both domestic and international markets.
Since 2007, SÁHÓ-A Ltd. has been responsible for the Group’s service activities. It carries out essential preventive maintenance and repair work for a fleet of 120 vehicles. In addition, SÁHÓ-A Ltd. is also in charge of the hygienic cleaning of the sites and technological equipment.
As its name suggests, Inforg 2008 Ltd. joined the Gallus Group in 2008. Its main activity is broiler chicken rearing, which it carries out not only at its Devecser center but also at five other sites: Felsővasdinnye, Középvasdinnye, Pápa, Vanyola and Novákpuszta.
The poultry farms in Borsodpuszta and Kimle joined the Gallus Group in 2012. At these sites, the main activities are hatching egg production and broiler fattening. The flocks reared here are later transferred to our processing plant in Sárvár.
Since 2017, Mezőtek Zrt. has been a member of the Gallus Group. Its main activities include poultry parent stock rearing, hatching egg production, and service and maintenance. This demonstration site also provides an opportunity for newly joined colleagues, as well as visitors and student groups interested in these exciting processes, to gain insight into our daily operations.
Since 2001, our central processing plant in Sárvár has been producing the Group’s continuously renewed range of fresh and frozen products made from broiler chickens reared within our integration system. Thanks to ongoing investments and modernization, we achieve an annual slaughter volume of more than 15 million broilers. Every tenth chicken in Hungary is processed by us.
Taravis Plusz Ltd. has been a member of the Gallus Group since the very beginning. In close cooperation with Taravis Ltd., marinated products, minced meat, hamburger patties, and GMO-free breast strips are produced in Bakonypölöske.
We established this retirees’ cooperative in 2017 to promote the continued employment of active seniors within our Group under flexible conditions. We value the transfer of knowledge, professional skills, and life experience from our senior colleagues to younger generations.
HB Transz Ltd., established in 1998, is one of the main pillars of our logistics processes. In our cold storage facility, we store both frozen and fresh products processed by us. Within a warehouse of nearly 2,000 m², products are placed on a process-optimized racking system with a capacity of 500 pallets, where they move through an electrically controlled, mobile storage system.
