The PHW Group features a strong vertical integration and combines large parts of the poultry production chain.

[8] Additionally, the company has a business sector alternative proteins, which in the fiscal year 2020/2021 made up €16.8 million (0,6% of the total revenue).

Im 2007, the ZDF broadcast the TV format Frontal21 documenting very bad working conditions and wages of Polish migrant workers.

In 2010, the ARD broadcast a Report Mainz reportage uncovering serious animal welfare violations at a chicken breeding farm.

[22] In 2014, the German Federal Cartel Office imposed fines totaling approximately €338.5 million on 21 sausage producers and 33 responsible individuals.

The so-called Wurstkartell (German for sausage cartel) also involved PHW Group subsidiary Wiesenhof Geflügelwurst GmbH & Co. KG based in Rietberg.

The financial services provider Ganten Trustees Ltd. serves as the representative office, which previously appeared in the Panama Papers.

[26] In 2017, animal rights activists and members of citizens' initiatives blocked the slaughterhouse in Königs Wusterhausen, Brandenburg.

[27] In 2021, the alliance Gemeinsam gegen die Tierindustrie blocked the company headquarters in Rechterfeld with more than hundred activists.