Industrial poultry processing in Szentes started a hundred years ago and continues to develop today
Industrial poultry processing began a hundred years ago in the Great Plains city, thanks to the poultry processing plant that started its operations in 1922 with a hundred employees, which quickly outgrew itself and became one of the most significant between the two world wars, serving the Hungarian and European markets with fresh, high-quality became a business supplying goods.

János Volosinovszki: This year is a jubilee year in Szentes, Csongrád-Csanád county.
To celebrate this anniversary and the successes achieved, suppliers, trade and service partners who play a key role in the production of poultry products and their delivery to customers gathered in Szentes on September 23, at the invitation of Hungerit Zrt. and the city management, as well as representatives of the specialized authorities with whom together, over the decades, Szentes has become one of the centers of poultry processing in Hungary.
“In the last hundred years, great changes have taken place in both poultry farming and industrial poultry processing in Szentes. The historical storms brought transformations and changes of ownership, but despite all this, poultry processing survived in Szentes and today Hungerit Zrt. can be considered the local heir of the activity”
– said János Volosinovszki, CEO of Hungerit Zrt., at the centenary celebration on September 23, and he expressed special thanks to all the citizens of Szentes, the city management, and the company’s employees and partners for the past decades.
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