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has decided to “scale back the associations in the pet sector raine and continue to search for
business and concentrate our ef- along with importers and manu- new relocation facilities,” she
forts in Russia on our key role in facturers of pet food and ingre- says. 55 MasterZoo stores loca-
feeding the Russian population dients. The aim of the talks was ted in safe areas have resumed
and their pets.” All profits from to discuss the looming shortage operations, according to her
the business in Russia are to be of ingredients for the domestic post. Suziria was aiming to dare
used for humanitarian purposes. pet food industry, according to an active restart of Suziria’s e-
The company has also aban- the Moscow-based news service commerce platform in March to
doned new investments in Rus- Zooinform. serve western Ukraine. Despite li-
sia and does not intend either to The RSN representatives mited access to the warehouses,
import products into Russia or to stated that they are selectively the company managed to distri-
export them from the country. It examining the resumption of im- bute 3 500 kg of shelter aid in 10
has suspended its social media ports from certain companies days. Suziria is based in Kharkiv,
activities and advertising in Rus- on request. Temporary permits which has seen some of the fier-
sia and Belarus. for the import of raw materials cest hostilities during the Ukra-
Nestlé is also giving top pri- and ingredients that were previ- ine war to date. In mid-April, the
ority to the safety of people in ously issued by the supervisory company announced that it has
A picture from happier times: Yuriy Ukraine. Its staff there are being authority are also to be extended opened new warehouses in the
Sinitsa, founder of Collar Company, supported with emergency food to the end of the year. city of Ternopil and in the Lviv re-
in front of the company’s stand at a
pet trade fair. packages, advances on wa- Zooinform reports that pet gion. The company’s warehouse
ges, administrative assistance food imports shrank by 20 per in Ivano-Frankivsk received the
and mental health support, ac- cent up to 11 March by compari- first two cars and will start ope-
cording to the company on its son with the same period in the rating in the near future, it was
website. Products are being do- previous year, although the sup- reported. The main warehouses
nated in addition to food banks ply of livestock feed increased work in the city of Kyiv in self-
and local welfare organisations by 23 per cent in the same time collection format and in the city
to help those in need in Ukraine span. Pet food deliveries from of Kharkiv in the format of self-
and neighbouring countries. In Germany suffered a significant collection and shipment through
Russia, the focus is on meeting decline of 27 per cent. Imports the service “Nova Poshta”, accor-
the needs of people locally. All from other countries including ding to the company’s post on
advertising here has been hal- Denmark and Norway were also LinkedIn.
ted, capital investment suspen- down. According to the Zooin-
ded and the import and export of form report, the RSN intends to
products into and out of Russia look at the possibility of import- An initial Vitakraft donation
has been stopped with the ex- ing pet food from new sources. of 26 pallets of dog and cat
ception of basic food items and Talks are currently taking place food was already dispatched to
therapeutic pet food for specia- with China, Brazil and Argentina. Ukraine in recent weeks. In addi-
list retailers and veterinary cli- tion, large quantities of bird food
nics. Over 7 000 people work are being taken to Ukraine in col-
for Nestlé in Russia. Suziria, a leading Ukrainian pet laboration with regional aid or-
supplies company, is actively ganisations.
working to restart its operations. n
In the last week of March, the This was the message from Po-
Russian Federal Service for Ve- lina Kosharna, co-owner and
terinary and Phytosanitary Su- CEO of the company, on Linked In.
pervision (RSN) met represen- “We have signed contracts with
tatives of industrial unions and two warehouses in western Uk-

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