The Bell Food Group is the leading meat processor and manufacturer of convenience products in Switzerland.

[7][8][9] On 1 October 2008, Bell AG acquired a 70 percent stake in the German meat products manufacturer Zimbo in Bochum.

[17] On 1 April 2016, Bell acquired the Zurich-based Eisberg Group, which produces lettuce, employs 400 people in Switzerland and Eastern Europe and has a turnover of CHF 55 million.

Also in 2016, Bell took over Cher-Mignon SA, which specializes in charcuterie and is based in the Valais municipality of Chermignon and has annual sales of CHF 13 million.

[18] On 1 October 2016, Bell acquired Geiser AG, which specializes in supplying caterers and is based in Schlieren (ZH).

[19] Investments planned in Oensingen for the replacement of Bell's existing cattle slaughterhouse on Dünnernstrasse and the location of the pork cutting plant were not well received by the Swiss Traffic Club (VCS).

In the traffic forecast of the environmental impact report, it is assumed that all employees travel to work individually in a motor vehicle.

As a result, the VCS argues that carpooling, public transport users or non-motorized traffic with bicycles and pedestrians were not taken into account in these calculations.

[24] On the night of 20-21 November 2018, the slaughterhouse in Oensingen was occupied by 134 activists from the animal rights movement 269 Libération Animale.

[26] 34 activists have appealed the penal orders they received for coercion, trespassing and hindrance of an official act and are now facing court appearances.

[27] At the end of February 2019, it was announced that former Federal Councilor Doris Leuthard was to take a seat on the Board of Directors of the Bell Food Group on 16 April 2019.

[28] At the Annual General Meeting on 23 March 2021, Hansueli Loosli resigned from the Board of Directors of the Bell Food Group after twelve years in office as Chairman.

Bell is also represented by Marco Tschanz on the board of directors of Centravo Holding AG,[36] a group of companies specializing in the processing and disposal of slaughterhouse by-products.