Alimentos Polar, C.A. is an

Empresas Polar Empresas Polar is a Venezuelan corporation that started as a brewery, founded in 1941 by Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Fleury, Juan Simon Mendoza, Rafael Lujan and Karl Eggers in Antímano "La Planta de Antimano", Caracas. It is the largest and b ...

subsidiary that operates in the foods and drinks area, manufacturing and sending deliveries to its clients.

Rice

On February 28, 2009 Venezuelan President

Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; ; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician, Bolivarian Revolution, revolutionary, and Officer (armed forces), military officer who served as the 52nd president of Venezuela from 1999 until De ...

ordered the military to temporarily seize control of all the rice processing plants in the country and force them to produce at full capacity, which he alleged they had been avoiding in response to the price caps instituted several years previously.Chavez Seizes Venezuelan Rice Plants
Associated Press, February 28, 2009 For a period of 90 days the ''Instituto para la Defensa de las Personas en el Acceso a los Bienes y Servicios'' ( Indepabis) supervised production at a number of rice processing plants, including Alimentos' Planta Calabozo Arroz plant in

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state. The minister for food, Félix Osorio, said the measure was temporary one and not intended to be a nationalisation.Eco Ava Minalimentacion
eluniversal.com 3 March 2009 The country's largest food processor,

, said that the regulated price of (plain) rice was well below the cost of production, and as a result 90% of its rice output was the flavoured rice not subject to

price controls Price controls are restrictions set in place and enforced by governments, on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market. The intent behind implementing such controls can stem from the desire to maintain affordability of go ...

. It also said that its plant was operating at 50% capacity due to raw material shortages. Alimentos Polar processes around 6% of Venezuela's rice production.

Products

* Harina P.A.N. * Mazeite (Cooking oil) * Alimentos Primor (Foods) * Yukery (Drinks) * Migurt (Yogurt) * Mavesa (Margarine, Vinegar, Vegetable Oil and Mayonnaise

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