Over 86 years ago, Chia brothers, Ek Chor and Siew Whooy established a small seed shop named ‘Chia Tai’ in Bangkok, Thailand. Their business was importing seeds from China for sale to Thai farmers. As produce from the seeds flourished, Chia Tai progressed towards the production of animal feed, allowing for the company to further integrate towards livestock farming. The completion of CP’s fully integrated agribusiness (from seed to feed to food) is a combination of both experience gained throughout the years, in parallel, with the addition of technological advances developed locally and acquired from abroad.

    In our first 30 years of expansion, CP became the fifth largest feed mill operator in the world, and by the 1990’s, production reached an annual total of 14 million tons at its 144 mills in countries including India, China and United States. Today, as Charoen Pokphand Group continues to actively invest and operate in numerous industries across the world, agribusiness still is deeply rooted within the foundations of the organization as it branches further into the international markets.

    For more than 80 years, CP Group’s operations and investments both locally and internationally has always contained our three-benefit philosophy. Passionately embedded into our everyday working life, our businesses and affiliates with more than 250,000 employees worldwide firmly uphold that our work must serve as a: