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News

Royal Canin plans expansion
Personnel in Tennessee

Tobias Grimm has assumed the newly created Royal Canin is planning a 200-mio- to manufacture the Royal Canin
role of manager for international business de- dollar expansion of its US facility in and Eukanuba health and nutri-
velopments at Josera. Hitherto distribution Lebanon, Tennessee. According to tion product lines. Royal Canin
manager for stationary retailing in Germany reports in online dailies, the work is will gain more than 10 000 m²
and Austria, he is expected to oversee further scheduled for completion in 2022 of working space with five addi-
expansion of the company in Africa, Asia and and the project will create more tional highly automated produc-
other countries. He will also consolidate the than 90 jobs. tion lines, doubling the plant ca-
existing business. Josera aims to strengthen its current export team The investment will enable the pacity.
further in the next few months. It will thereby further increase its in- facility to expand its capabilities
ternational presence, which has recently grown significantly.
Effeffe Pet Food acquired
Alwin Hübers, responsible for founding the
German family firm Dr. Clauder’s, has Effeffe Pet Food was acquired by plant in Pieve Porto Morone in the
passed away at the age of 82. In his passing the international group United Pet- province of Pavia. As part of the
the pet sector says goodbye to one of its food in January 2020. It is now United Petfood Group, the com-
pioneers, who learned about the manufac- trading as United Petfood Italia, pany has access to a network
ture of pet food starting on the bottom rung as reported by the Italian industry of 14 production plants located
of the ladder. magazine Pet B2B. Production by across Europe.
Alwin Hübers gained his first experience of the industry in his parents’ the company will continue at the
factory, the Rheinkrone feed concentrate plant Gebrüder Hübers. After
working there for some years, he set up on his own in Brünen. With Three stores in one day
his entrepreneurial flair and his nose for market trends, he steadily
developed the company and made many friends in the pet sector Three at one stroke: the expan- to the concept first introduced in
with his sociable nature and readiness to help out. sion of the Czech-based Plaček summer 2019. The new stores in
Following the takeover by his son Malte and Alexander Gerards Group continues even in corona- Jihlava and Hradec Králové have
in 2006, Alwin Hübers’ lifetime achievement is a medium-sized, glob- virus times. On 4 March, the dy- sales areas of 310 and 355 m ,
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ally active company with a workforce of around 100 people. namic pet retailer launched three respectively, while the new Super
“With the death of Alwin Hübers we have lost a figure to whom new stores in one day under its Zoo in Teplice is slightly larger at
we owe a great deal. He will always remain a role model for us and Super Zoo umbrella brand. All lo- 452 m .
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we will remember him with gratitude,” was the statement issued cations were designed according
by Dr. Clauder’s as part of his obituary.

Tractor Supply Company, the largest rural life-
style retail chain in the United States, has an-
nounced that Matthew Rubin (photo) has been
named senior vice-president and general man-
ager of Petsense with effect from 1 February.
Matthew Rubin will report directly to Hal Lawton,
president and CEO of Tractor Supply, and will
join the company’s executive committee. He succeeds Steve Neiber-
gall, vice-president of Petsense, who has announced his intention to
retire from the company after a successful leadership transition..
Live animals are an integral part of the Super Zoo stores.

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