Amaggi Group

The Amaggi Group, Portuguese Grupo Amaggi, is a large Brazilian commodities company involved in the soybean industry. It is the largest private producer of soybeans in the world.[1][2] The company has annual sales of over $500 million, and is a large domestically owned exporter that exports to destinations in both Europe and the United States.[3]

Amaggi Group
TypePrivately held
IndustryCommodities
Founded ()
Headquarters
Cuiabá, Mato Grosso
Key people
Blairo Maggi, (CEO)
ProductsSoybeans et al.
RevenueIncrease US$ 3.5 billion (2016)
Websitehttps://amaggi.com.br

Amaggi was founded in 1977 by André Maggi of Italian origin as a seed producer.[4] In the 1980s, he acquired large tracts of land in Mato Grosso and went into soybean production.[5] There he also had the city of Sapezal built. After his death in 2001, his son Blairo Maggi took over the company.[6] It is headed by CEO Blairo Maggi, son of the group founder Andre Maggi. He is a former Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply who is linked to the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest.[7]

References
  1. "Paving the Amazon with Soy - corpwatch". www.corpwatch.org. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  2. "Brasilien in den BrasilienNachrichten - Die Zeitschrift für Brasilieninteressierte - Die brennende Lunge". www.brasiliennachrichten.de.
  3. "Complicity in Destruction: How Northern Consumers and Financiers Sustain the Assault on the Brazilian Amazon and its Peoples" (PDF). Amazon Watch.
  4. Minas, Estado de (2014-04-11). "Família do senador Blairo Maggi entra na lista de bilionários da Forbes". Estado de Minas (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  5. "Pai do ex-ministro Blairo Maggi escravizou trabalhadores nos anos 80, diz relatório da PF". dialogosdosul.operamundi.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  6. "História". Amaggi (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  7. "Soy King Blairo Maggi wields power over Amazon's fate, say critics". Mongabay Environmental News. 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2019-06-19.


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