About us

Pick Szeged Zrt. has been a significant player in the European food industry market for the last few decades and has been the leader of the Hungarian meat market, offering excellent quality products widely known and appreciated all over the globe. It is crucial for us to use Hungarian raw materials, employ Hungarian labour and to produce excellent quality meat products while remaining a Hungarian-owned company.

Nowadays the name Pick does not only refer to a company based in the town of Szeged, but to the largest Hungarian meat industry enterprise with 4 production sites, affiliates in our largest export markets, in Germany and Russia, and trade representation offices in Japan and Hong Kong.

Pick Szeged Zrt. have the largest dried meat manufacturing capacity in Central-Europe and its scope of activities covers the entire meat industry verticum.

The world-famous PICK Original Winter Salami is the flagship product of our company which is market leader in the Hungarian market. In the domestic market our market share is significant; PICK Winter Salami, dried meat products and coldcuts are market leaders, similarly to Délhús hams and Ringa bacon. In Hungary PICK is the best-known meat industry brand name, and in order to improve our market share and reputation abroad we are also founding members of Hungaricum Club with a primary goal to preserve the identity of traditional Hungarian brands and to improve our reputation abroad.

Excellent quality, carefully selected raw materials and compliance of the work processes with strict quality assurance system of criteria guarantee that at the end of the manufacturing process excellent quality products are brought to our consumers.

The strategic objective of Pick Szeged Zrt. is to meet the needs and requirements of our customers is by continuously improving our manufacturing technology focusing on environmental protection. In order to ensure an environment-conscious operation we highly focus on water quality protection, saving water, management of waste accumulated during the manufacturing process, the protection of air quality, and we prefer energy-saving technical solutions.

Raw materials originating from our own slaughtering processes and complying with the strictest animal health requirements, the quality assurance and food safety standards maintained by Pick Szeged Zrt. guarantee that at all our production sites a continuously reliable manufacturing process is in place ensuring supreme quality products. Our traceability system ensures the identification of all meats and meat products from “farm to fork”, by complying with the requirements of our customers and consumers.

The members of Bonafarm Group employ over 5000 employees, whose professional knowledge and expertise serves as the basis of the excellent performance of the company group, and for whom this successful operation creates a more stable, secure and predictable working environment.

Pick Wintersalami:
The Pick Wintersalami has been produced since 1869 using a well kept secret recipe and contains nothing but choice ingredients. Carefully selected cuts of pork are used and smoked on real fire of beech wood that has been dried for 2 years. Under the watchful eyes of our Master of Salami who supervises production on an ongoing basis, it is matured for up to 100 days to achieve its unique flavour and white noble mould covered appearance.
We produce nearly 3.000.000 stick a year in our 64 meter high maturing tower’s 32 maturing halls.

Mangalica:
The Mangalica (curly hair hog) is the only native pork breed in Hungary, grown since the 19th century. Its unique look and rare nature is unrivalled in the world of pigs.
Consumers highly appreciate its meat due to the incomparable taste and the richness in unsaturated fat.
We offer a limited number of products in limited volumes made of this unique animal, and we guarantee that each product contains meat only from Mangalicas of the pure blood line certified by the National Association of Hungarian Mangalica Breeders.