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Investments in Equity-Accounted Investees, Associates and Joint Venture
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Investments in Equity-Accounted Investees, Associates and Joint Venture [Abstract]  
Investments in equity-accounted investees, associates and joint venture

10 Investments in equity-accounted investees, associates and joint venture

 

Changes in the investments:

 

Refers to investments in associate and joint venture:

 

      Equity 
   Participation  Balance at January 1, 2026   Disposal  

Profit

distribution

   Exchange variation  

Changes in the

equity of

investees

  

Proportionate share

of income

   Balance at
March 31,
2026
 
Meat Snacks Partners, LLC (1)  50%   23,301    (29,429)   
    1,091    5,037    
    
 
JBS Foods Ontario, Inc.  100%   18,751    
    
    1,009    (1,009)   49    18,800 
Birla Societá Agricola Srl  20%   1,854    
    
    100    (137)   (7)   1,810 
Mantiqueira Alimentos S.A. (2)  48.5%   128,874    
    (591)   8,016    (172)   144,677    280,804 
Mantiqueira International B.V. (3)  48.5%   (1,168)   
    
    (108)   90    (6,304)   (7,490)
Total      171,612    (29,429)   (591)   10,108    3,809    138,415    293,924 

 

      Equity 
   Participation  Balance at
January 1,
2025
  

Profit
distribution

  

Changes in the 
equity of

investees

  

Proportionate
share of

income

   Balance at
March 31,
2025
 
Meat Snacks Partners, LLC  50%   19,334    (1,943)   700    2,385    20,476 
JBS Foods Ontario, Inc.  100%   17,372    
    
    361    17,733 
Birla Societá Agricola Srl  20%   1,606    
    62    (11)   1,657 
Total      38,312    (1,943)   762    2,735    39,866 

 

(1)In January 2026, JBS S.A. concluded the sale of its 50% equity interest in the joint venture Meat Snack Partners for the amount of US$42.8 million.

 

(2)The Company, through its subsidiary JBS Holding, formalized on January 27, 2025, an agreement to acquire 48.5% of the total share capital and 50% of the voting shares of Mantiqueira Alimentos Ltda., a leading company in organic eggs (produced without antibiotics, hormones, and with free-range hens). The transaction received unconditional approval from CADE (Administrative Council for Economic Defense) on February 26, 2025 and was finalized on April 1st, 2025. On December 10, 2025 JBS N.V. received from JBS Participações S.A. 100% of the equity interest held in JBS Holding Ltda., as an in-kind dividend distribution. The transaction did not involve any cash outlay and was recorded at the carrying amount of the investment.

 

(3)Mantiqueira International was incorporated on August 20, 2025, and is accounted for as a joint venture in which JBS N.V. holds a 48.5% equity interest. On November 14, 2025, JBS N.V., through its direct subsidiary Mantiqueira International and its indirect subsidiary Mantiqueira USA Inc., entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interests of Hickman’s Egg Ranch, one of the leading egg producers in the United States.