MADRID/HAMBURG—When he was a child in Avila province, Albert Pascual’s father bought 100 pigs, but the company he now leads has more than 9,000—part of a major expansion that has put Spain on track to take over as the European Union’s top pork producer this year.
“My father sold pigs at a time, in the 1990s, when this sector practically did not exist. Now we [Spain] are a world power, we have grown a lot and our company has grown in parallel to the development and growth of this sector,” Pascual said.
