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BEHER

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Spanish ham producer company

Beher (stylised as BEHER) and also called Bernardo Hernández, is a Spanish ham producer company that has worldwide fame. It is situated in the town of Guijuelo (province of Salamanca, Spain), in the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Jamón de Guijuelo. This third generation family company was founded in the 1930s and is now one of the 300 biggest companies in Castile and León.2 It employed 90 people.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1930Founded1
  • Industryfood industry1
  • HeadquartersGuijuelo1
  • Websitewww.beher.es
  • Legal formsociedad limitada1

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Bodega Jamon BEHER Bernardo Hernandez Guijuelo Salamanca
Photo: Pravdaverita, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Beher (stylised as BEHER) and also called Bernardo Hernández, is a Spanish ham producer company that has worldwide fame. It is situated in the town of Guijuelo (province of Salamanca, Spain), in the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Jamón de Guijuelo. This third generation family company was founded in the 1930s and is now one of the 300 biggest companies in Castile and León.2

The story

In the beginning of the 1930s, Bernardo Hernández Blázquez began his business in the sector of "Pig slaughter" using family experience to integrate completely into the market. In the 1970s the founder's son Bernardo Hernández García took the company’s management in his hands and began to rear Iberian pigs in his private pastures. Nowadays his sons manage one of the 6 best companies in the sector with 2% percentage of the market. The products of BEHER are exported to more than 30 countries all over the world such as Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Russia and the European Union.

In 2010, new installations were inaugurated and now the size of the factory reaches 19.500 m2, including the highest cellar in the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) which is 8 meters high.

From Wikipedia’s article on Beher (company), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • ham

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Products

BEHER embraces all stages of the manufacturing process, from rearing pigs on its farms to manual cutting of the ham, getting a homogeneous production and world-wide recognition in the sector of sausage products, cold meats and collations.

Acorn-fed Jamón ibérico (Iberian ham).

Acorn-fed Iberian sausage products: loin (lomo), pork sausage (chorizo), salami (longaniza), bacon (panceta) and summer sausage (salchichón).

Products lines

Etiqueta Oro (Gold Label): Acorn-fed back-leg and front-leg Jamón ibérico ham. Chosen because of its wealth of oleic acid.

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Etiqueta Negra (Black Label): acorn-fed ham.

Red Label (Etiqueta Roja): Acorn-fed back-leg and front-leg Jamón ibérico ham.

Rashers: Cut by maestro Anselmo Pérez, the current Spain champion of ham cutting.

From Wikipedia’s article on Beher (company), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1930Founded Founded1

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