Profil Financier
Ricardo Faria occupe actuellement le rang #605 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur food & beverage). Fortune nette estimée : $6.8 B ($0 sur 24h).
Ricardo Faria founded Global Eggs (known in Brazil as Granja Faria) in 2018 when he started buying up farms across Brazil.
The company reached an $8 billion valuation in 2026 when it secured a $1 billion investment from New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus.
In 2025, Global Eggs acquired Pennsylvania-based Hillandale Farms for $1.1 billion.
Faria, who majored in agronomic engineering, got his entrepreneurial start when he founded a laundry company for hotel linens and uniforms in 1997. He sold it to French group Elis nearly 20 years later for almost $400 million.
Faria is the CEO and owns 82% of the Luxembourg-based company.
Global Eggs has more than 45 million birds across the United States, South America and Europe that are expected to produce over 15 billion eggs in 2026.
Faria was born in Brazil but spent his high school years in California before moving back to his home country for college.