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News

Personnel

Danish pet accessories manufacturer Orbiloc Garth Merrick, founder of the American com-
has hired Werner Matthiesen as business de- pany Merrick Pet Care, died in early March at
velopment manager. He was previously sales the age of 75. He founded his company in 1988 Canina
manager at Deerhunter, a Danish manufacturer in the family kitchen in Hereford, Texas. The
of hunting clothing. company’s brand portfolio still includes the …especially for the intestine
house brand Merrick as well as Castor & Pollux, Dietary supplement feed for dogs & cats
Whole Earth Farms and Zuke’s.
• Nutritional restoration and convalescene

The German premium pet food manufacturer Terra Julie Ninneman and Paul Ver- • High energy density, high concentration
Canis will be run by a new management team in derber took up roles as national
the future. This change at the top of the company sales managers at IQI Trusted
is a result of Nestlé Purina increasing its interest Petfood Ingredients on 1 March.
from 80 to 100 per cent. Terra Canis will continue Julie Ninneman has over 15
to be operated as an autonomous company in the years of experience in the pet
market, however, according to a spokesperson. food field and has worked for companies such as Royal Canin, Par-
Following on from the change in shareholding, founder and nell and Kent Feeds. Paul Verderber has worked in technical sales
managing director Birgitta Ornau has decided to hand over respon- and distribution for over 25 years. His previous experience in the
sibility for Terra Canis and take on a new career challenge from 1 food and pet food industry was gained with companies such as
April. She will continue to work with the company in a consultancy Mars, General Mills, Grimmway Farms, Carolina Innovative Food
capacity. Terra Canis will be led in future by two co-directors with Ingredients and Natural Blend Vegetable Dehydration.
equal rights. Thomas Reinarz will be responsible for personnel, IT
and operations, while Hubert Wieser assumes interim responsi-
bility for sales, marketing, product development and finance. He Vegan dog food sales booming
has stressed that “the concept of Terra Canis remains unchanged”.
The global vegan dog food market Research. An earlier piece of re-
is expected to grow by 12 per cent search by The Insight Partners pre-
Manufacturer J.M. Smucker has announced the a year up to 2028, according to a dicted the market will be worth
appointment of Jonathan E. Johnson to the new report by Data Bridge Market more than 15 bn dollars by 2028.
management board. This increases the number
of board members to 12. Johnson is currently
CEO of the online retailer Overstock. He has Whitebridge merges with Canina
been with the company since 2002 in various Agras Pet Foods ly available energy, high-concentration vitamins and immunoglobulins from the co-
posts, including as director and president of lostrum. This is the f rst milk that the mother produces during and after birth. It is
Overstock’s risk capital company Medici Ventures. The American pet food manufac- gian investment company NXMH. rich in lactoferrin and lysozyme.
turer Whitebridge Pet Brands and The new company will trade under
the Italian pet food manufacturer the name Whitebridge Pet Brands. own defence system and optimizes the recovery phase of the animals, especially
Karel Strubbe has been promoted from his previous post as sales Agras Pet Foods are merging. Both Olivier Amice, the current during and after physical exertions such as childbirth (mother animal as well as
director EMEA to the role of head of global sales at Tomra Food, a companies are owned by the Bel- CEO of Whitebridge Pet Brands, puppies & kittens), training, sports and tests.
global market leader in state-of-the-art sensor-based sorting and will become CEO of the merged
processing technologies for food and pet food. Vera Boon, new company. Pietro Molteni, former
head of service, joins Tomra Food from her role as global services
CEO of Agras, is leaving.
leader at Ingersoll Rand. Two new posts at Tomra Food have been The lactic acidforming germ Enterococcus faecium in the
Whitebridge Pet Brands in-
created for Kris De Smet, the new head of product management, tends to continue to operate from ensures rapid colonization with important lactobacilli. These are for a healthy, balan-
and Vanessa Sibenaler, new head of people & organisation. ced intestinal f ora. And consequently for a stable intestinal immune system; the at-
its two offices in St. Louis (USA)
and Genoa (Italy). tachment of negative germs to the intestinal mucosa is counteracted. Even very
young puppies/kittens (from the f rst day of life) can be easily fed by the dosing aid
(ring on the injector) by rubbing the paste with your f nger under the palate.

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