Gallina Blanca

Name

Gallina Blanca

Legal name

THE GB FOODS EUROPA, S.L.U.

Website

https://gallinablanca.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

1940

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Packaged Food

NAICS

Food Manufacturing (311), Mayonnaise, Dressing, and Other Prepared Sauce Manufacturing (311941)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Pesto, Cooking Pastes & Concentrated Flavor Bases Manufacturing (AFAKADAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Dips, Salsas, Relishes & Chutneys Manufacturing (AFAKADAM)

Keywords

• Packaged soup products
• Bouillon and broths
• Culinary seasoning cubes
• Ready meal sauces
• Spanish consumer food

Headquarters

HQ city

Hospitalet De Llobregat

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Consumer packaged food products: Gallina Blanca generates revenue through the sale of branded consumer food products including bouillons (Avecrem), broths, soups, sauces, sofritos, and ready meals sold through Spanish retail channels and supermarkets.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Gallina Blanca manufactures and sells branded consumer packaged food products in Spain, spanning bouillons and seasoning cubes (Avecrem), liquid broths (Caldos Caseros, Caldos Gourmet, Caldos Especialidades), instant and cream soups (Sopas, Sopinstant, Cremas Caseras), sauces (Salsas), sofritos (Sofritos Caseros), and ready meals (Platos Preparados). The brand operates the gallinablanca.es recipe platform with over 4,000 recipes, a Menu Planner tool, and an AI-powered Chef Guía assistant to support home cooking and drive product usage.

Product overview

Gallina Blanca operates as a food products company with two interconnected offerings: a portfolio of culinary food products across multiple sub-brands, and a digital recipe platform at gallinablanca.es. The product portfolio centers on the Avecrem seasoning brand and includes multiple sub-brands covering broths (Caldos Caseros, Caldos Gourmet, Caldos Especialidades para cocinar), prepared foods (Cremas Caseras, Platos Preparados, Sopas Gallina Blanca, Sopinstant), sauces (Salsas), and tomato-based preparations (Sofritos Caseros). The digital platform serves as a marketing and engagement channel featuring over 4,000 recipes, a Menu Planner tool, and AI-powered features including a Chef Guía assistant and AI-generated ingredient images. Users can register for free to access advanced Menu Planner functionality, save favorites, and rate recipes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Avecrem: Stock cube and seasoning brand including Avecrem Pollo, Avecrem Sabor Carne, Avecrem Vegetal, Avecrem Pescado variants
• Caldos Caseros
• Caldos Gourmet
• Caldos Especialidades para cocinar
• Cremas Caseras
• Sopas Gallina Blanca
• Sopinstant
• Sofritos Caseros
• Platos Preparados
• Salsas
• Menu Planner

Products and services

• Avecrem Brand of cooking and seasoning products including broth cubes, powdered broths, and seasoning blends. Includes variants such as Pollo (chicken), Sabor Carne (meat flavor), Vegetal (vegetable), and Pescado (fish), as well as reduced-salt and 100% natural options.
• Caldos Caseros Line of ready-to-use liquid broths positioned as homemade-style, including Pollo, Cocido, Pollo y 8 Verduras, Pescado, Verduras, Carne, Escudella, Puchero, and low-salt variants. All labeled as 100% natural.
• Caldos Especialidades para cocinar Specialty cooking broths designed for specific Spanish dishes including Paella Fácil (Marisco, Mixta, Carne), Fideuá, and Fumet de Pescado de Roca y Marisco.
• Caldos Gourmet Premium broth line featuring high-end ingredients such as Pollo de Corral, Pollo con Jamón Ibérico Enrique Tomás, Pescado con Bogavante, Cocido con Ibéricos Enrique Tomás, and Navidad varieties.
• Cremas Caseras Ready-to-use cream soups including Calabaza con Nata, Pollo con Verduras, 7 Verduras con Emmental, Espárragos con Jamón, and Champiñones con Pollo. All labeled 100% natural.
• Platos Preparados Ready meals including Spaghetti 3 Quesos and Risotto de Setas.
• Salsas Prepared sauces line including Pimienta Verde (green pepper), Roquefort, Bechamel, Chilindrón, and Champiñones.
• Sofritos Caseros Ready-made sofrito and tomato products including Sofrito de Tomate y Cebolla, Tomate Frito Casero, Sofrito de Tomate y Verduras, and Pisto Casero de Verduras. Positioned as 100% natural and preservative-free.
• Sopas Gallina Blanca Instant dry soup mixes including Pollo con fideos finos, ave con fideos, Pollo con Maravilla, Cocido, Jardinera, Verduras, Ternera con Estrellitas, Puchero con Fideos Finos, ave con arroz, and a baja-en-sal variant.
• Sopinstant Instant soup cups designed to be prepared with boiling water, including Pollo con Picatostes, Verduras con Picatostes, Pollo con Pasta, Champiñones con Picatostes, Espárragos con Picatostes, and Consomé al Jerez con Picatostes.

Quantifiable outcome

• Platform offers over 4,000 recipes with various difficulty levels and cooking times

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Buitoni: Buitoni (Nestlé) competes with Gallina Blanca's Platos Preparados (Spaghetti 3 Quesos, Risotto de Setas) and pasta-coded recipes. Both brands operate in the Spanish packaged pasta and ready-meal category with overlapping distribution and recipe-marketing approaches.
• Maggi: Maggi (Nestlé) is the immediate mirror of Gallina Blanca: bouillon cubes, instant soups, sauces, and seasonings sold through Spanish supermarkets. Notably, Gallina Blanca was divested by Nestlé to GBfoods in 2019, making Maggi the former parent's competing brand.
• Knorr: Knorr (Unilever) is the dominant global bouillon, broth, and seasoning brand and the most direct competitor to Gallina Blanca's Avecrem cubes and Caldos Caseros ranges. Both compete for the same Spanish shelf space with overlapping core products (cubes, granulated broths, liquid stocks).
• Calve (Unilever): Calve is Unilever's Spanish prepared-sauce brand and the direct shelf competitor to Gallina Blanca's Salsas line (Pimienta Verde, Roquefort, Bechamel, Chilindron, Champiñones). Both serve the same Spanish household cooking occasion with branded ambidextrous sauces.
• Aneto: Aneto is a Spanish natural broth specialist competing directly with Gallina Blanca's Caldos Caseros line. Aneto's 100% natural, refrigerated positioning is the closest premium alternative to Caldos Gourmet and forces Gallina Blanca to compete on clean-label and culinary authenticity.

Broad incumbents

• Progresso (General Mills): Progresso is a large packaged soup brand (canned and ready-to-serve) competing with Gallina Blanca's Cremas Caseras and Sopas ranges. Broader US-anchored portfolio with global retail ambitions, providing a comparable template for shelf-stable soup scale.
• Campbell's: Campbell's is the archetypal global soup and condensed broth player and a structural benchmark for Gallina Blanca's broth, soup, and ready-meal lines. Relevant for category economics and recipe-led marketing precedent rather than direct Spanish retail overlap.
• Heinz: Heinz (Kraft Heinz) overlaps with Gallina Blanca in soups, sauces, and ready meals sold through Spanish food retail. It is a broader portfolio player rather than a Spain-specialist, but competes in the same Mercadona/Carrefour shelf set.

Regional players

• Orlando / Pastificio Lucio Garofalo: GBfoods owns this Italian pasta brand alongside Gallina Blanca, so it is a true same-portfolio peer within the GBfoods group. It illustrates the cross-category pasta reference point for Gallina Blanca's Platos Preparados and Sopas Gallina Blanca lines and benchmarks how the parent scales Mediterranean food brands.

Others

• Hacendado (Mercadona): Mercadona's Hacendado is the dominant Spanish private-label competitor to Gallina Blanca across bouillons, broths, sauces, and sofritos. While not a direct brand peer, it sets the price floor in Spanish supermarkets and is the principal private-label threat to Avecrem and Caldos Caseros.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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