FAR

What FAR does

FAR (FAR Jamones y Embutidos) is a Spanish meat products business headquartered in Girona (Catalonia, Spain) that produces and sells burgers, pork products, lamb, and snack-format meats. Its website domain is far.es and its product positioning emphasizes Mediterranean diet provenance. The firmographic record lists the company as founded in 1957 with 101-250 employees, while legal-entity records identify the underlying corporate vehicle as Costa Brava Mediterranean Foods S.L.U. (founded 1965 per the company's own website and legal filings), creating a data discrepancy between the FAR brand and the broader legal entity.

FAR operates as a sub-brand within Costa Brava Mediterranean Foods, which itself sits under Grup Canigueral Holding. The parent group operates 17 specialized production plants covering more than 235,000 m2, employs 4,000+ professionals across the holding, and distributes to over 60 countries. Costa Brava Mediterranean Foods organizes its offering into three product lines — Fresh (Frescos), Processed (Elaborados), and Cured (Curados) — of which FAR Jamones y Embutidos is a category presence. No pricing model, named customer accounts, or recurring contract data is available in the source data, so customer mix and economics cannot be triangulated further.

The business positions itself around Mediterranean gastronomy heritage and a formal ESG framework aligned with the UN 2030 Agenda, structured around five externally audited pillars: Climate, Natural Resources, Plastic Reduction, People & Quality, and Animal Welfare. A separate FOODSERVICE subdomain signals a B2B foodservice go-to-market motion distinct from retail, and the corporate website is localized into seven languages (Spanish, Catalan, English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese), indicating an internationally oriented distribution posture. The financial data block for FAR contains clearly corrupted values that are not usable for revenue analysis, leaving the company's economic scale unauthenticated beyond the headcount and footprint statements noted above.

Name

FAR

Legal name

COSTA BRAVA MEDITERRANEAN FOODS, S.L.U.

Website

https://far.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

1965

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

FAR (FAR Jamones y Embutidos) is a Girona, Spain-based meat products company that makes and sells burgers, pork, lamb, and snack-format meats, operating as a sub-brand within the Costa Brava Mediterranean Foods / Grup Canigueral Holding group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Processed Meat Products

NAICS

Food Manufacturing (311)

SIC

Sausages & Other Prepared Meat Products (2013), Meat Packing Plants (2011)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYAFANAEAK

Specialty & Regional Processed Meats (Ethnic/Traditional Sausages, Regional Cures)

Agriculture & Food Production/Meat, Poultry & Seafood Processing/Meat Further Processing (Cured, Smoked, Deli Meats, Sausages)

SECONDARYAFANAEAE

Fermented & Air-Dried Charcuterie (Salami, Pepperoni, Prosciutto-Style)

Agriculture & Food Production/Meat, Poultry & Seafood Processing/Meat Further Processing (Cured, Smoked, Deli Meats, Sausages)

SECONDARYAFANAEAG

Hot Dogs, Frankfurters & Bologna (Emulsified/Comminuted Meats)

Agriculture & Food Production/Meat, Poultry & Seafood Processing/Meat Further Processing (Cured, Smoked, Deli Meats, Sausages)

SECONDARYCRADABAK

Jerky & Meat Snacks

Consumer Products & Retail/Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Manufacturing & Brands/Snacks & Confectionery

Keywords

• Cured meat products
• Meat snacks
• Burger patties
• Fresh lamb meat
• Mediterranean embutidos

Headquarters

HQ city

Girona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

FAR Jamones y Embutidos manufactures and sells meat-based food products including burgers, pigs (cured pork products such as jamón), lambs, and snack items. The brand operates under Costa Brava Mediterranean Foods and is part of Grup Canigueral Holding, producing fresh meats, processed meats (elaborados), and cured meats (curados) rooted in Mediterranean gastronomy.

Product overview

No product or service information available for FAR in the provided source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FAR Burgers
• FAR Pigs (Jamones y Embutidos)
• FAR Lambs
• FAR Snacks
• Costa Brava Foodservice Range

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Grupo Jorge: Spanish pork-to-finished-product integrator with cured-meat operations. Comparable vertically integrated meat manufacturer serving similar Iberian and export markets.
• Grupo Fuertes / El Pozo: One of Spain's largest meat processors producing cured ham, sausages and processed meats under El Pozo and Javier. Same geographic and product overlap as FAR — Iberian charcuterie and processed pork.
• Campofrío Food Group: Spain-headquartered, Europe's largest processed-meat company (hams, sausages, cold cuts). Directly comparable to FAR/COSTA BRAVA on product mix (jamón, embutidos, elaborados) and Iberian retail channel positioning.
• Noel Alimentació: Spanish processed-meat company producing cooked and cured products (charcuterie). Directly comparable product line and customer base to FAR.
• Embutidos Entrepinares: Spanish specialty producer of cured ham and embutidos. Closest product-line analogue to FAR Jamones y Embutidos across traditional sausages and Iberian cures.
• Coren (Cooperativa Ourensana): Major Spanish meat cooperative covering fresh meats, processed meats and cured products for retail and foodservice. Overlaps FAR across the full fresh/elaborados/curados stack.
• Argal: Catalonia-based (same region as FAR HQ in Girona) processed-meat manufacturer of ham, embutidos and patés. Strong regional and product overlap with FAR.
• Tello (Industrias del Jamón): Spanish cured-ham specialist serving retail and foodservice with sliced and whole-piece jamón. Closely aligned with the Curados pillar of FAR's portfolio.

Broad incumbents

• Smithfield Foods: Global meat-processing incumbent with broad cured and processed product lines. Comparable on scale and category but much larger, geographically broader and not Mediterranean-specialized.

Regional players

• Gruppo Veronesi (Veronesi Holding / AIA): Italy's leading integrated meat and charcuterie group. Comparable European cured-meat and processed-meat operator, but operating primarily in Italy rather than Spain — a regional analogue to FAR.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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