President Orsi meets India’s Allana Group

President Yamandú Orsi met on Monday with representatives of the Indian owned Allana Group, which plans to acquire the Colonia plant as part of a deal under which Marfrig will sell its three packing plants (Inaler, La Caballada and Colonia) to Minerva. According to Subrayado, Minerva Foods and Allana Group yesterday submited the purchase documentation to the Competition Promotion and Defense Commission (Coprodec) of the Economy and Finance Ministry (MEF). Minerva intends to buy the three Marfrig plants in San José, Salto and Colonia and to transfer the Colonia facility immediately to Allana.

The structure differs from Minerva’s original plan to keep all three plants, rejected by Coprodec in October and by the MEF in December to avoid further industry concentration.

Based on cumulative slaughter data for 2025, Minerva would hold a 36 % share of total slaughter after adding the Salto (La Caballada) and Inaler (San José) plants to its current four facilities (Canelones, Carrasco, BPU and PUL), although BPU was inactive during the first two months of the year. With BPU operating normally, Minerva’s share would be about 39 %.

Next would be the Urgal family (Pando and San Jacinto) with 16 %, followed by Marfrig (Tacuarembó) with 11.6 % and Las Piedras with 8.3 %.

“Everything in this process must be watched closely. Livestock is at risk,” senator Sebastián Da Silva wrote on X after news of Orsi’s meeting with Allana.