For the last 50 years, Avícola de Galicia has been bringing high-quality poultry products to our consumers’ tables. In the course of these years, we have adapted to new technologies; constantly growing and evolving, we serve the traditional market while also venturing into new product formats. And in all this time, we have never ceased to create jobs, guarantee animal well-being, care for our environment and honour the trust placed in us by our consumers.i
Over fifty years have gone by since Avícola de Galicia S.A.U. (Avigal) was established, in 1964. It was set up by Jaime Olmedo Limeses, who headed a group comprising relatives and friends. This group identified a business opportunity in promoting the poultry sector and found the ideal enclave in Campañó for the new company.
Since that time, Avícola de Galicia has become a part of Campañó landscape, as well as home to numerous locals in the parish and outlying parishes. Even today many of the locals have worked and work at Avícola de Galicia. In the course of its history, this poultry producing company has gone through three main stages. The first of these lasted no less than 26 years, when Jaime Olmedo was the C.E.O., backed by, among others, his esteemed collaborator, Julio Martínez Moreira. In its beginnings, Avícola de Galicia focused on the traditional market, seeking to increasingly enlarge its area of distribution.
The company, which in those days employed around 80 workers, was responsible for all processes to do with poultry production, from reproducing hens to incubation hall, feed plant and even a slaughterhouse.
Over fifty years have gone by since Avícola de Galicia S.A.U. (Avigal) was established, in 1964. Since that time, Avícola de Galicia has become a part of Campañó landscape, as well as home to numerous locals in the parish and outlying parishes.
In 1990, Jaime Olmedo moved the company into a new stage, and Doux Ibérica bought Avícola de Galicia. At that time, Doux Ibérica was the leading chicken producer in the then European Community (today known as the European Union), and by purchasing Avícola de Galicia, it took 15% control over chicken sales in Spain. It was during this stage of changes and innovations that the processes became increasingly automatic, the ultimate aim being to enlarge the market by guaranteeing and improving the service provided to consumers. This effort led to establishing Galicia Calidade, S.A., which granted the Galicia Quality Guarantee Brand to Avícola de Galicia. This entailed the express recognition of the company for top quality raw materials, optimum productions and excellent services.
In 2008, the third and current stage in Avícola de Galicia commenced, when it was acquired by the Grupo Vall Companys. This Entrepreneurial Group in Lerida has a professional career of over 50 years. Its main activities include not only poultry production, but also porcine cattle production and the baking flour market. As a family-owned company, both underlined in the Grupo Vall Companys and, at all times, at Avícola de Galicia, they guaranteed the merger being carried out free of all obstacles and swiftly. Today, this third stage at Avícola de Galicia involves projects in innovation, automation of installations and creating new production processes arising from a policy of constant investment aimed at progressive growth.
In the course of its long life, Avícola de Galicia has adapted to the new technologies and has grown and evolved constantly, carefully keeping up the traditional market while expanding into new markets, committed to new product formats
Today, on the occasion of Avícola’s “Golden Wedding”, it can be said that it has had a long career and that, despite the internal changes, it has always remained in Campañó. Furthermore, it has always had an excellent team of professionals linked to Pontevedra and surrounding area, involved in the company’s day to day running, all being tremendous workers. In the course of its long life, Avícola de Galicia has adapted to the new technologies and has grown and evolved constantly, carefully keeping up the traditional market while expanding into new markets, committed to new product formats, without overlooking the need to promote employment, to guarantee animal welfare, respect for the environment, landscaping integration and, needless to say, the trust of the consumers.
AVIGAL RABBIT
WELL, WHICHEVER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT
Avigal rabbit meat is a healthy and delicious ingredient in any dish. Versatile and easy to cook, loaded with nutrients and with the Avigal quality guarantee: good meat, whichever way you look at it.
Healthier
Rich in protein
Rich in vitamins
Rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids
Low in fat
Delicious!
Easy to cook
With a mild aromatic flavour
Very versatile
100% Mediterranean diet
MADE IN GALICIA
OUR FACILITIES
Avigal rabbit meat comes from our Celanova plant: a modern facility offering maximum guarantees of safety and quality.
FORMATS
ALWAYS THE IDEAL PRODUCT
Whole, semi-split, in portions, processed products … Avigal offers you more than fifteen different formats, so that you always have the exact answer to your clients’ needs.
INTEGRATED PRODUCTION – “FROM FARM TO TABLE”
The production system we use is called “integrated production system”. It enables us to keep each and every one of the factors involved in the production process under strict control: chicks, raw materials, feed, fattening…
Thus, Avigal sends 1-day chicks laid by the Vall Companys Group’s hens to the farms, where they are housed in specified conditions validated by the veterinary service. There, they are reared with feed mixes prepared at our Pontevedra facilities until they reach the required weight for slaughter.
The farmer is supported during the entire process by our veterinary team. In addition, the vehicles used to transport both the feed and the “live animals” belong to the Group and Avigal’s own abattoir at Campañó is used to slaughter the birds.
Integracion y Piensos
granjas
WHAT DO OUR FARMS FEATURE?
We preserve the highest levels of technical and environmental efficiency, using environment-controlled, longitudinally-ventilated buildings. Thus, we ensure optimal animal well-being while also effectively controlling the buildings’ environment and significantly reducing energy costs.
WHAT ARE AVIGAL VIVO’S GOALS?
Poblacion rural
WE HELP MAINTAIN RURAL POPULATIONS
We help stop the exodus from the rural areas, offering young people a modern work environment in a rural setting.
Bienestar animal
WE MAINTAIN ANIMALS’ HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
We work to guarantee the highest standards in all the factors that affect animal well-being: density, litter quality, air quality, light, etc.
Bioseguridad
WE PRESERVE BIOSAFETY AT OUR FARMS
Our technical department provides quality control and training services for farmers.
Crecimiento de las aves
WE OPTIMISE THE FOWLS’ GROWTH
Our chicks grow healthily thanks to the improved environment and a natural, balanced diet based on different cereals: wheat, corn, barley, soy bean.
QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Whether at our partner farms, at our feed factory where we produce the food our animals eat, or at our slaughtering and cutting plant, we constantly strive to maintain the highest quality, food safety and animal well-being standards.
AVÍCOLA DE GALICIA, S.A.U.
Barragáns, 34
36157 Campañó (Pontevedra)
Tel. +34 986 833 100
avigal@avigal.es
AVIGAL – AVÍCOLA DE GALICIA
Mercaolid. Avenida Euro, 24 Nave C 7
47009 (Valladolid)
Tel. +34 983 708 872
comercialvalladolid@avigal.es
FÁBRICA DE PIENSOS AVIGAL
San Caetano s/n
36157 Alba – Pontevedra
Tel. +34 986 87 17 90
AVIGAL CAMBADOS
Pol. Ind. Sete Pías, Vial 5 Parcela C-7
36630 Cambados (Pontevedra)
Tel. +34 986 833 100
avigal@avigal.es
AVIGAL CELANOVA
Parque Empresarial de Celanova – Parcela 23-26
32800 Celanova (Ourense)
Tel. +34 988 553 251
avigal@avigal.es
