Zing Tsjeng
speaker
4,926 appearances
19 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Zing Tsjeng’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Wesley and Joesley learned the business alongside their father, although Wesley says his father was the only true hands-on butcher in the family.
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That's nice.
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As teenagers, the boys bought and sold oxen, they negotiated with clients, they learned the inner workings of the industry, and Wesley said their background was not academic.
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He said, ''We have the background of life.
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We have learned by living.''
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By 17, both had dropped out of high school to manage the various slaughterhouses the family owned.
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Yeah, we will.
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And this is not a family keen on bureaucracy.
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They like action.
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They encourage efficiency, agility and decisiveness.
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and the brothers started expanding aggressively.
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Between 1993 and 2005, Freeboy acquired 12 other slaughterhouses and beef processing plants.
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And around the world, more people were eating more meat over this period.
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There was growing urbanisation, higher incomes, better access to refrigeration, for example, so as well as processed beef.
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They began exporting fresh beef, primarily cuts not widely used in Brazil.
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In 2004, they relocated Free Boys headquarters to Sao Paulo, centralising all their operations.
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And in 2005, the eldest brother, Jose, after 20 years in charge, decided to explore a career in politics, which actually ultimately failed.
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But meanwhile, Wesley and Joe Esley, who were focused on, took over the business.
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I think very safe to say that because although the negative free cash flow, that means that any profit they make, they're ploughing back into the business.
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But of course, that has the effect of making the business worth more over time.
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