Wesley Batista Filho, grandson of founder, will become global CEO in January, returning family control to JBS after eight years. The transition, planned for years, keeps the meat giant focused on US expansion.
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JBS NV, the world's largest meat supplier, will once again be led by a member of Brazil's Batista family. Wesley Batista Filho, grandson of founder Jose Batista Sobrinho, takes over as global chief executive officer in January after leading the company's US division for three years, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday.
The move returns the top job to the Batista clan for the first time in about eight years. The family had built their slaughterhouse business into an empire covering meatpacking and energy, along with mining, finance and consumer goods. Gilberto Tomazoni, the first CEO from outside the Batista bloodline after a corruption scandal ensnared brothers Wesley and Joesley Batista in 2018, will step down but stay as vice chairman.
Tomazoni said the transition had been planned for years. Batista Filho, 41, led the US division through a period of tight cattle supply as the American herd rebuilt slowly. Now he'll oversee a company expanding into the Middle East and Southeast Asia, with the US business a key focus after a recent listing of JBS shares in New York brought it closer to investors there.
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JBS has not announced who will replace Batista Filho as head of its US operations.
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