Turnover: 100 million EUR (2022)

Country: France

  • Family-owned company based in Nantes, founded in 1976 and positioned upstream in the poultry industry
  • 600 employees
  • Leading professional link in the poultry and insects sector
  • Business: sustainable breeding of reference animals. Giving birth to reference animals that customers will breed.
  • World leader in palmiped breeding
  • By 2021, 75% of Mulard ducks and 60% of Muscovy ducks sold in Europe will come from Orvia strains.
  • Orvia Peking ducks account for 40% of worldwide sales (excluding China).
  • The group exports to over 40 countries worldwide.
  • Orvia enters theinsect sector (Hermetia Illucens)
  • Cycle Farms subsidiary, specialized in the insect breeding and selection market.
  • A major partner in the supply of insect larvae (black soldier fly or Hermetia Illucens), on the French and international markets.
  • 10 entities, including 4 abroad (China, Spain, Hungary and Ghana).
  • 21 locations worldwide

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Orvia, the Vendée-based group, prepares for the return of avian flu 18/06/2023

  • Vendée-based Orvia Group: French leader in palmiped breeding.
  • Orvia Group based in Montréverd, employs 600 people including breeders.
  • Sales in 2021: 117 million euros.
  • Sales in 2022: 100 million euros, including government compensation.

Orvia chick hatchery taken over by Breton BD France 24/05/2023

  • Orvia chick hatchery (35 employees) taken over by Breton company BD France
  • The French consume 30 million chickens a week, 50% of which come from chicks produced in France.
  • The Orvia group refocuses on the duck sector, selling its chicken activities to Galina (LDC group) and BD France.
  • BD France owns 6 hatchery units
  • BD France, with sales of 90 million euros and 265 employees, is one of France's two biggest suppliers of chicks, alongside Galina
  • BD France supplies 30% of France's needs in broiler chicks produced in France.
  • Orvia, created in 2017 by the Belgian group Belgabroed and the Danish group DanHatch to consolidate and industrialize the French industry, boasts ultra-modern hatcheries