December 11, 2013

Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V. announced that a family trust sold a portion of its shares representing 9.5% of Bachoco through the Mexican Stock Exchange at market price.

Bachoco has been notified by the family trust which has members of the founding family as beneficiaries, and as a result, the family trust holds 21.25% of Bachoco.

Industrias Bachoco is the leader in the Mexican poultry industry, and one of the largest poultry producers globally. The company was founded in 1952, and became a public company in 1997, via a public offering of shares on the Mexican and The New York Stock Exchange. It is a vertically integrated company headquartered in Celaya, Guanajuato located in Central Mexico. Its main business lines are: chicken, eggs, balanced feed, swine, and turkey and beef value-added products. Bachoco owns and manages more than a thousand facilities, organised in nine production complexes and 64 distribution centres in Mexico, and a production complex in the US.