THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

47211

Retail sale of meat and meat products in specialized stores

ประกอบกิจการค้าสัตว์มีชีวิต เนื้อสัตว์ชำแหละ เนื้อสัตว์แช่แข็ง และเนื้อสัตว์บรรจุกระป๋อง

What this activity covers

This activity involves the retail sale of various types of meat and meat products in specialised stores.

  • Fresh Meat Sales — Retail of fresh meat, including poultry and game
  • Chilled Meat Products — Retail of chilled meat products
  • Frozen Meat Sales — Retail of frozen meat and meat products
  • Processed Meat Products — Retail of preserved and processed meat
  • Edible Animal Parts — Retail of edible parts of animals

What companies here also do

Seen in real company registrations under this code — beyond the official definition, so licensing may differ.

  • Wholesale Meat Trade — Wholesale activities related to meat and meat products
  • Frozen Food Sales — Retail of frozen food products, including meat
  • Animal Product Trading — Trading in various animal products

Foreign ownership

List 3: Restricted, FBL/BOI route availableinherited from 47

Retail sale of goods of all kinds, where the aggregate minimum capital or the minimum capital per store is below the level prescribed in the Act

Not a hard restriction — only applies while under-capitalised. A foreign-majority retailer is exempt from this List 3 item (no Foreign Business Licence needed) once registered capital meets the Act's minimum, typically THB 100 million in total and THB 20 million per store. Verify current ministerial-regulation figures.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 3 (14)Routes: Foreign Business Licence, BOI promotion, US Treaty of Amity

Auto-mapped, verify against the Act. These TSIC mappings are indicative, not legal advice; the schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority. See the full foreign ownership reference.

Industry at a glance

as of 23 ก.ค. 69

The whole registered industry under this activity, every registration year, from the DBD DataWarehouse.

1,153
active companies operate here
฿9.2Bregistered capital, combined
฿133.5B
Sector revenue · 2025
-1% since 2023
฿2.5B
Net profit · 2025
510 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
6%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿11.0M foreign฿162.8M Thai

Largely domestic, with some foreign investment.

New in 2026

150+117.4%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿9.2B+12.7%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

Latest filed-year revenue, not a multi-year total

  1. 1Betagro Agricultural Industry Co., Ltd.฿83.5B
  2. 2MSP Interfoods Co., Ltd.฿4.3B
  3. 3Big Foods Group Co., Ltd.฿2.8B
  4. 4Siam Centagofarm Co., Ltd.฿1.7B
  5. 5Dee Farm Food Retail Co., Ltd.฿1.7B

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Betagro Agricultural Industry Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿4.8B
  2. 2BETAGRO VENTURES CO., LTD.Bangkok฿700.0M
  3. 3Big Foods Group Co., Ltd.Ratchaburi฿190.0M

Source: Department of Business Development DataWarehouse. Financial figures are combined totals of companies that filed statements; revenue and profit shown for the latest three reporting years.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

475
Registered
since 2022
430
Still active
45
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 115 in 20262026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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