With over 50 years of expertise, Gira has been at the forefront of analysis and strategic expertise in the meat & livestock sector worldwide. Our mission is to deliver comprehensive data, forward-looking strategic analysis and valuable insights that support our clients across the entire food supply chain.
We collaborate closely and consistently with clients across the entire value chain, from genetics, animal health, pharmaceuticals and feed additives, through to large-scale farming operations, slaughtering and further processing, machinery and packaging. Our reach eventually extends to major retail and foodservice buying groups, giving us a truly end-to-end perspective of the industry. This scope provides our Meat and Livestock team with a unique outlook on global meat market trends, challenges, and opportunities, and gives access to key decision-makers across the meat industry.
Our flagship multi-client research programme, the Gira Meat Club (GMC), celebrating its 50th year in 2025, provides members with exclusive access to comprehensive insights into the global meat and livestock industry. The programme centres around an annual two-day meeting in Geneva for Gira Meat Club members and is supported by a series of targeted country reports.
The research for this annual meeting and the reports equips our Gira Meat Club team with a robust baseline of data and key contacts within the meat industry. The GMC provides data and insights across each of the 23 key markets – from the US and Europe to South Africa, Saudi Arabia, China and beyond –across the pork, poultry, beef and sheepmeat sectors.
In addition to the Gira Meat Club, we also run the Gira Asia Meat Club (GAMC), celebrating its 13th year in 2025, and regularly carry out other multi-client studies focused on key industry issues. Recent topics include
These studies and more are available in our extensive back catalogue of our Reports Page!
Gira’s Meat and Livestock team dedicates a significant part of the year to individual consulting projects, focusing on supporting the unique business challenges of our clients worldwide. These projects cover a range of areas including, but not limited to:
Every project is carried out by Gira’s extensive global team of experienced specialists, who deliver timely, well-thought-through and actionable insights to the challenges of the global meat market – setting us apart from our competitors in global meat industry research.
Gira’s Meat & Livestock experts are regularly invited to speak at food industry events and conferences worldwide, engaging with farmers, producers, industry associations, clients, and investors. We are recognised for our extensive expertise and our ability to initiate meaningful discussions within this globally connected industry.
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(49th edition published December 2024) The Gira Meat Club (GMC) provides a unique outlook of global meat markets. It combines short and mid-term forecasts with insight as to the key dynamics and issues by market. Gira knows how crucial it is for the global industry to understand this during these uncertain times.
Read More...(To be published April 2025) For a long time, the plant-based alternatives market was primarily dominated by soy. The emergence of new protein sources in recent years has given a new lease of life to this sector. Among the diverse range of plant proteins, pea protein stands out due to its numerous nutritional, functional, economic
Read More...(Published February 2024) For full details on this report, download the brochure above. If you have any questions and would like to speak directly with the project management team, contact our Meat Director, Rupert Claxton at rclaxton@girafood.com.
Read More...(12th edition published February 2024) Running alongside the long-standing Gira Meat Club, the Gira Asia Meat Club gives insight into the developments and changes in the Asian meat sector.
Read More...(1st Edition to be published July 2022) For full details, click on the proposal title or the download button.
Read More...(1st Edition to be published July 2022) For full details, click on the proposal title or the download button.
Read More...(5th edition published February 2022) The European and UK processed meat market is vast at approximately 14 million tonnes product weight. It is also extremely diverse and complex – with a multitude of national and regional variations.
Read More...(1st Edition Published June 2021) For full details on this study, click on the download button above.
Read More...(Published April 2020) The Black Swan Event of a Generation Covid-19 started in Wuhan on 10th December 2019, but didn’t make global consciousness until mid-January 2020. With the global disruption and fear now touching every aspect of business and social life, the food industries of the world are facing challenges of an unimaginable scale only
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