Cargill Meats Central America

Cargill Meats Central America is a retail-branded business that processes and distributes chilled and frozen poultry, luncheon meats and other further processed food products to large and small food retailers throughout Central America. We also distribute processed cheeses and French fries.

Our poultry operations are in Honduras and Nicaragua; processed-meat operations are in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras. Recognized local brands include: Pollo Norteno® and Delicia® in Honduras; Tip Top®, Delicia® andCinta Azul® in Nicaragua; Perry® and Premier® in Guatemala; and Cinta Azul® in CostaRica. In May 2005, we acquired the assets and trademark of a local competitor in Honduras. And in January 2006, we acquired a leading processed-meat business in Nicaragua, which markets under the Cainsa® brand.