Péter Szautner joins the Bonafarm Group

The Bonafarm Group has become a decisive food industry group in Hungary over the past decade and a half. In addition to dynamic growth and the implementation of significant developments and investments, one of the key tasks of the recent period has been to modernize the operating model, including optimizing their market forecasting, planning, production and sales organization processes. Thanks to the vertically integrated operating model and well-organized management, Bonafarm has been able to remain stable and profitable even in the hectic economic environment of the 2020s, thus ensuring the resources necessary for continuous development.

Bonafarm’s goal for the coming years is to maintain its dominant role in the domestic market, continue its investment activities in both the agricultural and food processing sectors, and significantly strengthen its presence in neighboring countries. In the spirit of international expansion, they are further developing their foreign partner companies and expanding their regional markets.

In order to achieve development and growth goals, Péter Szautner joined Bonafarm in the position of Deputy CEO and Group Strategy Director from May 2025. The specialist’s new position combines strategic leadership with operational management tasks, so he will be responsible for the development and implementation of the group’s domestic and international strategic initiatives, as well as for coordinating the activities and projects of individual sectors and areas of expertise.

Péter Szautner has 30 years of extensive international experience in the food industry, gained as a senior manager, in sales and marketing in companies operating in the dairy, confectionery and poultry industries. For the past 15 years, he has worked as CEO at Royal FrieslandCampina, one of the largest dairy groups in Europe, responsible for the Hungarian, Romanian, Belgian and French regional markets, and successfully managed the developments, restructuring and international expansion of the companies belonging to him.