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TOP 50 global processors in 2022

09/05/2023

2022 Season
Sophie Colvine
Patagoniafresh
California,
Middle East
According to data we have collected by contacting processing companies and experts in different countries, the fifty largest tomato processing companies, for which we have direct information or estimates, processed 24 million metric tonnes of tomato in 2022, which is about 63% of the volume processed globally. 

 
These fifty companies operated one hundred and thirty-three processing sites in 2022, spread over nineteen countries. One hundred and twenty-three factories are located in the Northern Hemisphere, and only ten in the Southern Hemisphere.

 
Global companies with a total annual tomato processing capacity of 200 000 metric tonnes or more in 2022 
* Estimate or from third party as no information was provided by the company 
** Factories now dismantled, idle or sold
(1) KAGOME GROUP COMPANIES:  Italagro + FIT in Portugal, 1 factory in Japan, 1 in Australia (included in KAGOME)  + Ingomar in California (listed separately)
(2) CONESA: Conesa, Agraz, Conesa Vegas Altas, Travir and Pinzón (Spain); Conesa Portugal and Tomatagro (Portugal); Agusa (USA) & Xianfeng (China)
(3) CASALASCO GROUP: Casalasco Società Agricola SpA + Emiliana Conserve from 2022 crop 
(4) Xinjiang Chalkis rented some factories to YanYangTian in 2018 to 2021. Restarted processing in 7 factories in 2022. 10 factories are iddle.  
(5)  Xinjiang NongFa Group will run 3 factories from crop 2023 
(6) previously listed at ITALTOM: partnership of independant companies Steriltom & Emiliana Conserve 
(7) EMPRESAS IANSA: Patagoniafresh (Chile) & Icatom (Peru) 
(8) YanYangTian rented some of Chalkis factories from 2018 to 2021. Taken over by XinLiang Group in 2022. 
(9) formerly Assan Foods
 

China is the country that hosts the largest number of processing sites in the world's TOP50: a total of thirty-one factories operated by eight different companies processed approximately 4.5 million tonnes, including the world's No.3, COFCO, which processed 1.78 million mT in its 12 plants.
 
In second place for the number of industrial sites, Italy hosts 24 factories belonging to eight companies, the largest of which in 2022 was the Casalasco Group, No. 7 worldwide with 820,000 mT handled in its five sites.
 

 
In the United States, and more specifically in California, twelve TOP50 companies operated eighteen processing sites last year; the three factories of the world's No. 1, Morning Star, processed 3.46 million mT in 2022, i.e. around 9% of the year's global volume.
 
The fourteen sites belonging to Turkish companies in the TOP50 processed just over 1.74 million mT in 2022, including 540,000 mT processed by Turkey's No. 1, TAT Konserve.
 
Spain hosts twelve sites belonging to eight TOP50 companies, the most important of which clearly have a cross-border vocation: CONESA (the world's No. 5) and TRANSA also operate sites in Portugal, while Spanish sites are also managed by Portuguese companies, such as the SUGAL Group, world number two.
 
As we pointed out in our previous world ranking, only a small number of industrial groups operate in different countries. Among these, we must therefore mention Sugal (headquartered in Portugal), Conesa (Spain), Kagome (Japan), Conagra (USA), Conserve Italia (Italy), Transa (Spain) and Iansa (Chile). Of these, only the first three have an intercontinental base.
 

 The Tomato News team contacted all the companies it believes should be listed in the table, but not all replied so we had to use some estimates. If your company is missing from the list or if the information published is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us so we can release an updated table in a few weeks.
 
Some complementary data:
For the record, the ranking of TOP50 companies in 2020

 
Sources: Tomato News & WPTC