Achor

What Achor does

Achor is a Spain-based, privately held agricultural cooperative founded in 1962 and headquartered in Valladolid. With 101-250 employees, the company produces and supplies three primary commodity categories — sugar, edible oils, and vegetable flour — to downstream buyers in food manufacturing, retail, and industrial channels. The cooperative (for-profit) structure implies member-aggregated production and value distribution back to member producers, a model common in European sugar beet and oilseed processing.

The product portfolio spans refined sugar, edible oils, and vegetable-based flour, all of which are mature commodity categories with established industrial demand. The cooperative is privately held with no public ticker or external equity investors disclosed in the available data, and operates a single primary footprint in Valladolid. No capacity figures, production technology, certifications, customer roster, distribution architecture, or pricing mechanics are disclosed in the source data; the company's website (cooperativaacor.com) returned only a verification/loading screen during data collection, and the aggregated structured inputs contain no product-level, financial, or customer information.

Consequently, deeper judgments on operational scale, vertical integration, channel strategy, regulatory exposure, or competitive positioning cannot be made from the current evidence base. The available signals support only a baseline profile: a multi-decade Spanish agricultural cooperative in commodity sugar/oils/flour categories, privately held, with a small-to-mid employee count and no disclosed technology or growth indicators.

Name

Achor

Website

https://cooperativaacor.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1962

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Achor is a Spain-based for-profit agricultural cooperative, founded in 1962 in Valladolid, that produces and supplies sugar, edible oils, and vegetable flour to downstream commodity buyers across food and industrial markets. (32 words)

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Products Manufacturing

NAICS

Food Manufacturing (311), Sugar and Confectionery Product Manufacturing (3113), Fats and Oils Refining and Blending (311225)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000), Sugar & Confectionery Products (2060), Fats & Oils (2070)

akta.pro primary industry

Farmer Cooperatives & Co-op Retail (AFABAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

International & Ethnic Packaged Foods (CRADAAAG)

Keywords

• Sugar production
• Vegetable oils
• Agricultural cooperative
• Vegetable flour
• Food ingredients

Headquarters

HQ city

Valladolid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

Achor is an agricultural cooperative that produces and supplies sugar, oils, and vegetable flour. Operating from Valladolid, Spain since 1962, the cooperative produces and distributes these food ingredients from its own agricultural production and processing operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sugar

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Cosun Beet Company: Dutch cooperative sugar beet processor also producing plant-based ingredients and biobased products — analogous cooperative structure and adjacent end markets to Achor.
• Tereos: French sugar beet cooperative producing sugar, ethanol, and starches — similar cooperative governance and multi-product commodity profile to Achor.
• Cristal Union: French sugar beet cooperative producing sugar, ethanol, and other agri-products; structurally and product-wise similar to Achor.
• Nordzucker: Northern European sugar beet producer operating multiple beet processing factories; comparable core sugar manufacturing activity to Achor.
• Südzucker: Europe's largest sugar producer and a leading processor of sugar beet, with diversified activities in ethanol, fruit, and specialty ingredients — directly comparable to Achor's sugar/oil platform.
• Pfeifer & Langen: German sugar producer (part of Savencia Fromage & Dairy group) operating sugar beet factories; directly comparable beet sugar processing scale and geography.
• British Sugar: UK sugar beet processor and a major producer of sugar and co-products including animal feed; comparable beet-based processing model.

Broad incumbents

• Louis Dreyfus Company: Global merchandiser and processor of oilseeds, grains, and sugar with EU exposure; offers overlapping capabilities as a broad incumbent against Achor's portfolio.
• ABF Sugar (Associated British Foods): Diversified food conglomerate whose sugar arm operates beet processing across Europe; competes with Achor in packaged and industrial sugar channels.
• Cargill: Global agricultural commodities and oilseeds processor with European operations; competes with Achor in edible oils, sweeteners, and bulk agri-commodity supply.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ACOR_COOP
• Facebookfacebook.com/AcorCoop

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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