Lacthosa
| Industry | Food and beverage |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | Honduras |
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Area served
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Honduras |
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Key people
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Schucry Kafie (Founder) |
| Products | Dairy, fruit juices, and drinking water |
| Website | lacthosa.com (English homepage) |
Lacthosa (incorporated as Lácteos de Honduras S.A.) is a Honduran producer of food and beverage products, focusing on dairy and fruit juices. It leads the country in dairy production.
Lacthosa was established by Honduran entrepreneur Schucry Kafie in 1992. The company constructed a plant in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in March 1992. In the mid-1990s, the company positioned its "Sula" brand for sales in Guatemala and El Salvador, and in September 2001, Lacthosa entered the U.S. market after receiving an export permit from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A 1998 report from the Office of the First Lady of Honduras noted Lacthosa had donated thirty-thousand glasses worth of milk to Honduran schools that year to insure that students received adequate nutrition.
In October of 2014, Lacthosa began selling cream butter in the Dominican Republic, and in January 2015, the company invested $15 million to expand juice production and enable the export of its products to a greater number of international markets. As of 2017[update], the company has five processing plants in Honduras, producing 140 million liters of milk in 50 municipalities in 14 departments, constituting the largest milk-producing enterprise in the country. Lacthosa sells over 250 products, including a variety of milk, malt, cream, cheeses, fruit juices, nectars, ice cream, yogurt, and purified water, distributed throughout Central America. Juice products include varieties of orange juice, apple juice, pineapple juice, guava, tamarind, and peach, pear, and apple nectars. The company has over 3,000 permanent employees, as well as 2,600 suppliers of fresh milk and 2,000 citrus farmers, generating 60,000 indirect farm and services jobs. In March 2017, Lacthosa was awarded the Orquídea Empresarial (Entrepreneurial Orchid Award) from the Honduran government for bringing Honduran products to international markets.
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