Grupo Fuertes has acquired Nutrave, a poultry processor based in Bargas, Toledo, in its third deal in Spain's chicken sector this year and a further step in the consolidation reshaping the country's poultry industry.

Nutrave processes, supplies and distributes chicken and hen meat alongside a range of processed poultry products. The company runs a fully integrated model: it controls the chain from feed production and egg incubation through to bird processing.

Grupo Fuertes said the acquisition strengthens its position in poultry, a strategic category, and supports greater control and traceability across its production chain. The group added that its integrated approach underpins its commitment to quality, food safety and animal welfare.

Who stays after the deal?

Nutrave's three founding families will remain shareholders and support the Fuertes family through the transition. Grupo Fuertes also plans to retain all Nutrave employees.

The group said it will apply a management model similar to those it used in its previous acquisitions in the sector — a template that keeps family-business ownership and existing expertise in place while folding the businesses into its poultry platform.

Why is Spain's poultry sector consolidating?

The deal lands amid a wave of consolidation in Spanish poultry, with several major international operators acquiring domestic chicken businesses in recent months. Grupo Fuertes said three of Spain's ten largest poultry operators are now foreign-owned.

For domestic operators and their food-service customers, that shift matters. Consolidation concentrates supply in fewer hands and raises pressure on independent Spanish groups to secure scale and vertical integration — precisely what Fuertes is buying with Nutrave's farm-to-processing chain.

What came before Nutrave?

Earlier this year, Grupo Fuertes entered the chicken sector by acquiring two family-owned companies, Tolvasa and Paasa, both based in Albacete. The Nutrave purchase builds on that investment.

The sequence — Tolvasa, Paasa, now Nutrave — signals a deliberate build-out rather than a one-off bet. Grupo Fuertes is assembling an integrated poultry platform with feed, incubation, processing and distribution under one roof, competing directly with the international groups now holding stakes in Spain's top ten.

Next, the group will integrate Nutrave under its established management model while the founding families remain onboard — and further acquisitions in the sector cannot be ruled out as Spanish poultry consolidation continues.