- Double-digit profit growth
- More production and international expansion
- Millionaire investments to gain efficiency
- More than 1,500 jobs and an extensive industrial network
- The alliance with Mercadona, a key lever
- A phenomenon that is repeated among Mercadona suppliers
- Mercadona as an industrial engine
Double-digit profit growth
The accounts of 2024 They confirm the good moment of Entrepinares. The company carried out a turnover of 665 million eurosA 8% more only in 2023, while its EBITDA got up until 64 millionwhich means a 16% increase. Results which reflect both the increase in activity and the improvement in operational efficiency.
More production and international expansion
Economic growth was accompanied by a strong surge in productivity. In 2024, the Entrepinares factories are gone 100 million kilos of cheeseA 8.3% more than the previous year, in addition to 35 million kilos of dairy products.
Added to this is the strengthening of its outdoor activitywith exports already reaching more than 50 countriesdiversifying markets beyond Spain.
Millionaire investments to gain efficiency
The company awarded 41 million euros in 2024 investments aimed at improving efficiency and industrial capacity. With this figure, the total mobilization of resources over the last four years already exceeds 140 million euros. This strategy has allowed it to position itself in a leading position within the sector and leading the ranking of cheese producers by turnover volumeaccording to the economist.
More than 1,500 jobs and an extensive industrial network
Entrepreneurs a more than 1,500 workerscollaborates stably with more than 700 farms and around twenty cooperatives, and manages four production centers in Valladolid, Fuenlabrada, Villalba and Los Yébenes. To this network is added a logistics and packaging center in Valladolid and two factories specializing in whey processing in Castrogonzalo (Zamora) And Vilalba (Lugo).
The alliance with Mercadona, a key lever
Even though Entrepinares boasts of being “the largest cheese manufacturer», his relationship with Mercadona This is one of the keys to its expansion. The alliance, maintained since over 20 years oldhas allowed the company to grow sustainably alongside the strengthening of the Valencian chain, of which the market share is already close to 30%.
A phenomenon that is repeated among Mercadona suppliers
The case of Entrepinares is not isolated. Other strategic suppliers to Mercadona have experienced similar growth. He Martínez family group announced investments of around 150 million euros to expand its facilities, after increasing its turnover by almost one 8% and its advantage 16%.
It also highlights Ozturk Quebapsupplier of skewers and meat products, which aims to exceed the 75 million euros this year, or Sefood Groupwhose Spanish subsidiary plans to close the year with 160 millionA 30% more than the previous one.
Mercadona as an industrial engine
These names are joined by other key suppliers such as Profand, Panamar, Casa Tarradellas or Estiuconfirming that the Mercadona lever became a engine of industrial growth for a good part of the Spanish agri-food fabric. Entrepinares is today one of the clearest examples of this tractor effect.
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