Lur Berri
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| Company type | Food company |
|---|---|
| Industry | activités des sociétés holding  |
| Founded | 1936, France |
Lur Berri is a cooperative food company in south west France, created in 1936.
History
[edit]In 1936, the wheat cooperative was founded. Until 1965, activity was focused on crop production in the Basque Country.
In 1971, the agricultural cooperative Lur Berri was born from a merger between grain cooperatives in the Basque Country and Lower Navarre.
From the 1980s, the cooperative grew quickly. It moved into livestock production (cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry) and acquired a number of cereal wholesalers: Bonnut, Garlin, Espoey, Artix, Clermont, and Coarraze-Nay. The group Lur Berri has been active in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes, Hautes-Pyrénées, and most recently, the Tarn-et-Garonne.
Lur Berri's mission is to "assure our farmer partners the best value of their products".
2013 meat adulteration scandal
[edit]On 14 February 2013, the French government confirmed that Spanghero, a French prepared meat producer of which Lur Berri owns 99%,[1] knowingly sold horse meat labelled as beef in the 2013 meat adulteration scandal, and the company's licence was suspended while investigations continued.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "empty". Lurberri.fr. Archived from the original on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
- ^ "Horsemeat scandal: France blames processor Spanghero". BBC. 2013-02-14. Retrieved 2013-02-14.