Asociación Interprofesional del Cerdo Ibérico

What Asociación Interprofesional del Cerdo Ibérico does

Asociación Interprofesional del Cerdo Ibérico (ASICI) is a non-profit agro-food interprofessional organisation (OIA) founded in 1992 and officially recognised in 1999 under Spanish Law 38/1994. It represents the Iberian pig sector through bipartite governance, giving livestock farmers (ganaderos) and industrial operators (slaughterhouses, cutting plants, curing facilities) equal representation. ASICI is headquartered in Zafra (Badajoz), in the heart of Extremadura's Iberian pig production region, and operates across Spain and seven international priority markets (UK, China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, Italy).

The organisation's core technology is the ÍTACA traceability platform, a proprietary web-based system covering the entire Iberian pig value chain from breeder identification through slaughter to finished product, integrated with physical precint (seal) systems and the IBÉRICO consumer-facing mobile app, which has scanned over 1.1 million product codes across 38 countries. ASICI also owns the SELLO IBÉRICO ANIMAL WELFARE (IBAW) certification aligned with OIE standards and the B+ Compromiso Bienestar Animal cross-sector welfare seal. Its product portfolio extends to international promotional campaigns (Awaken Your Ibérico Sense, Despierta tu Sentido Ibérico), the Spanish-Ibericos.com B2B export portal, the IBERESCENCIA industry summit, professional ham-cutting training programmes, and co-organisation of the Porc d'Or Ibérico awards with IRTA.

ASICI's business model is a non-profit funded through mandatory sectoral contributions collected from all operators in the Iberian pig value chain via the extensión de norma regulatory mechanism, supplemented by EU co-financing (REA) for international promotion campaigns. The organisation does not sell products or services commercially; its customer base is the entire Iberian pig sector, served through services including traceability infrastructure, certification, international market development, and sectoral research.

Name

Asociación Interprofesional del Cerdo Ibérico

Legal name

ASOCIACION INTERPROFESIONAL DEL CERDO IBERICO SC

Website

https://iberico.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Asociación Interprofesional del Cerdo Ibérico (ASICI) is a Spanish non-profit interprofessional organisation representing Iberian pig livestock farmers and industry. It operates the ÍTACA traceability platform, IBÉRICO consumer app, and IBAW animal welfare certification, funded via mandatory sectoral contributions and EU cofinancing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Interprofessional Services

NAICS

Hog and Pig Farming (112210), Animal Slaughtering and Processing (31161), Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities (92614), All Other Animal Production (11299)

SIC

Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200), Agricultural Services (700), Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Accredited Certification Bodies (CBs) – ISO 22000/FSSC 22000/BRCGS/SQF (AFALACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Accreditation & Oversight Bodies for Food Safety Certification (ABs/Scheme Owners) (AFALACAB), Animal Welfare Auditing, Compliance & Certification Services (Non-testing Lab) (AFAEALAN), Supplier Approval, Verification & Food Safety Risk Management (GFSI-aligned) (AFALADAH), Sanitary & Phytosanitary (SPS) & Food Safety Regulatory Cooperation (BPADANAF)

Keywords

• Iberian pig traceability
• Meat quality certification
• Interprofessional agricultural organization
• Pork sector promotion
• Animal welfare certification

Headquarters

HQ city

Zafra

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Membership contributions and extension of norma: ASICI is a non-profit Agri-Food Interprofessional Organisation (OIA) representing livestock farmers and industry paritarily. It is funded through mandatory contributions extended to the entire sector via 'extensión de norma' regulatory mechanism, collected from all operators in the Iberian pig value chain.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Asociación Interprofesional del Cerdo Ibérico (ASICI) is a non-profit agro-food interprofessional organisation representing Iberian pig farmers and industry on a paritary basis. It operates the ÍTACA traceability system (140M+ precint codes), manages the IBÉRICO consumer verification app, issues the IBAW animal welfare certification, and runs EU-co-financed international promotional campaigns for Iberian Ham across China, UK, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea and Mexico.

Product overview

Asociación Interprofesional del Cerdo Ibérico (ASICI) operates a suite of traceability and quality assurance products centered on the ÍTACA system, which tracks Iberian pork from farm through processing. The consumer-facing App Ibérico enables buyers to scan precint barcodes and verify authenticity against the ÍTACA database of over 140 million codes. ASICI also runs the IBAW animal welfare certification program. Its promotional infrastructure includes international campaigns like Awaken Your Ibérico Sense (co-financed by the EU), the Restaurant Week event series, the digital Escuela del Ibérico platform, the B2B marketplace Spanish-Ibericos.com, and the annual IBERESCENCIA industry summit. The organization also co-organizes the Porc d'Or Ibérico awards with IRTA.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ÍTACA: Sistema de Identificación, Trazabilidad y Calidad - Identification, Traceability and Quality System for Iberian products
• App Ibérico
• SELLO IBÉRICO ANIMAL WELFARE (IBAW)
• Awaken Your Ibérico Sense
• Despierta tu Sentido Ibérico

Products and services

• ÍTACA (Sistema de Identificación, Trazabilidad y Calidad)

Quantifiable outcome

• App IBÉRICO: 85,000 downloads across 38 countries, 1.1 million precint scans
• +5 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IRTA (Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentarias)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 June 2026IRTA co-organises the Porc d'Or Ibérico awards with ASICI and provides the BDporc technical database underpinning the awards and sector benchmarking. The awards jury evaluates farm data submitted to BDporc (covering 85 farms and 71,855 breeding sows in 2025). IRTA also contributes scientific expertise and research transfer to the sector.
• ICEX España Exportación e InversionescoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 10 June 2026ASICI and ICEX have renewed their strategic collaboration agreement for the joint development of professional Iberian ham cutting courses in seven international markets (UK, China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, Italy). The agreement (published in the BOE) runs until 31 December 2027 with a joint budget of €125,000 (ASICI 80%, ICEX 20%). ICEX provides its network of Economic and Commercial Offices abroad and access to Restaurants from Spain-certified establishments.
• CEVA Salud AnimalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCEVA Salud Animal serves as the principal partner of the Porc d'Or Ibérico awards and sponsors the One Health award category, recognising integrated health management practices on Iberian pig farms.
• MingchuminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMingchu, one of China's largest digital platforms for chefs and foodservice professionals, collaborated with ASICI to help organise and promote professional Iberian ham cutting workshops in Guangzhou and Shenzhen (June 2026), reaching 80 culinary professionals.
• IBERAICEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIBERAICE (Asociación de Industrias de la Carne de España) represents the industrial sector within ASICI and is the driving force behind spanish-ibericos.com, the B2B export portal that groups over 300 Iberian pig processing and exporting companies. IBERAICE leverages ASICI's international promotion actions to benefit its member companies.
• CICYTEX (Centro de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica de Extremadura)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerASICI and CICYTEX signed a collaboration agreement to promote research and protection of the dehesa (Mediterranean woodland ecosystem essential to Iberian pig production), combining ASICI's sectoral knowledge with CICYTEX's scientific capabilities.
• FEMP Red Ganadero-Cárnica (Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerASICI participates in the Red Ganadero-Cárnica, the 11th thematic network of FEMP created on 13 June 2025 to group local and provincial entities where livestock and meat industries are strategically important. The network aims to bring livestock and rural issues to the centre of political and social agendas, with over 100 member entities and a strategic body (Foro Ganadero-Cárnico) comprising six interprofessional organisations.
• El Sentido de la Carne consortiumminorGTM or Marketing PartnerASICI is a member of 'El Sentido de la Carne', a collaborative initiative bringing together 170 companies and organisations across the entire meat value chain (manufacturers, distributors, specialised retailers, interprofessionals) to promote the role of meat in diet, culture, and gastronomy. Active July-October in Spanish retail, packaging, digital channels, and social media.
• European Research Executive Agency (REA)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe EU's REA co-finances ASICI's international promotion campaigns (Awaken Your Ibérico Sense, 2024-2027) under the European Union's agricultural promotion policy, providing significant funding that enables ASICI to execute large-scale international market development activities in China, UK, and Japan.
• MAPA (Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMAPA provides governmental support for ASICI's campaigns and is co-organiser of the Porc d'Or Ibérico awards. It also works on international market access issues, including recognition of PPA regionalisation by third countries (China, Japan, Philippines), which is critical for Spanish Iberian pig export growth.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• FoodChain ID: Global food safety, certification, and traceability services provider (BRCGS-affiliated, Non-GMO Project, FSMA, supply-chain compliance). Comparable as an enabling service provider in food-safety certification, though commercial rather than sector-specific interprofessional like ASICI; relevant adjacency given ASICI's IBAW and quality-standard remit.

Direct peers

• IBERAICE: Asociación de Industrias de la Carne de España — the industrial-side member association within ASICI, grouping 300+ Iberian pork processing and exporting companies. Operates the spanish-ibericos.com B2B export portal and shares staff/governance overlap with ASICI; effectively the commercial counterpart within the bipartite interprofessional structure.
• INTERCUN: Spanish Interprofessional Organisation for rabbit meat (Organización Interprofesional para impulsar el sector cunícola). Another Law 38/1994 interprofessional with identical governance and sector-promotion model; co-participant in cross-sector welfare and meat-promotion initiatives alongside ASICI.
• Fundación Jamón Serrano Español: Spanish Serrano Ham Consortium promoting the generic Serrano ham category internationally with similar ETG/quality framework and EU co-financed promotion campaigns. Comparable in mission (Spanish cured-ham export promotion) though serving non-Iberian cured ham.
• INTEROVIC: Spanish Interprofessional Organisation for sheep and goat meat. Same OIA legal structure and bipartite governance model as ASICI, running comparable promotional, traceability, and EU-co-financed campaigns for a different red-meat species.
• INTERPORC: Spanish Interprofessional Agri-Food Organisation for white-layer pork (Organización Interprofesional Agroalimentaria del Porcino de Capa Blanca). Closest direct peer — same legal structure under Law 38/1994, same bipartite representation model, same promotion/trade-fair and internationalisation playbook, but covering the larger white pork segment rather than Iberian.
• Provacuno: Spanish Interprofessional Organisation for beef (Organización Interprofesional Agroalimentaria de la Carne de Vacuno). Sister interprofessional operating under the same Law 38/1994 framework; runs parallel promotion, traceability, and internationalisation programmes targeting EU and third-country beef markets.
• PROPOLLO: Spanish Interprofessional Organisation for poultry meat (Organización Interprofesional de la Avicultura de Carne). Same interprofessional legal form and Spanish meat-sector coordination role as ASICI; co-participant in the B+ Compromiso Bienestar Animal seal alongside ASICI.

Regional players

• Consorzio Prosciutto di San Daniele: Italian PDO consortium for San Daniele ham. Comparable as a regional cured-ham consortium operating certification, traceability, and international promotion; serves as a benchmark for ASICI's PDO/quality-standard governance and premium export positioning in EU and third-country markets.
• Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma: Italian PDO consortium for Parma Ham — comparable as a premium cured-ham industry consortium that combines protected designation of origin rules, traceability, marketing, and international promotion. Different geography (Italy) but structurally analogous to ASICI in function and category premium positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/JamonesIb%C3%A9ricosEU
• Facebookfacebook.com/somosmuyibericos
• Instagraminstagram.com/somosmuyibericos

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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