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News

Nobby starts direct sales in United Petfood acquires
Belgium and France Gold Line Feeds

The German company Nobby has The sales representative respon- The Belgian pet food producer trative functions will be moved
now started direct selling in order sible for the Belgian and French United Petfood has announced to United Petfood UK. Gold Line
to supply the Belgian and French markets, Alexandre Duhan, was the takeover of the UK-based Feeds is an independent animal
pet market. Its previous cooper- introduced at the Anido trade fair company Gold Line Feeds. The feed manufacturer with 80 years
ation with a Belgian wholesale in Kortrijk, Belgium. United Petfood Group will take of experience situated in North-
company has been terminated. over the company’s brands and amptonshire, UK. The British
customer base. Production and factory supplies approximately
distribution will continue at their 20 000 tonnes of dry pet food
current sites, while the adminis- each year.

Photo: Mornac, France

Looking forward to direct sales (from left): managing director Christian The United Petfood Group operates out of 20 pet food facilities situated
Felix, Alexandre Duhan, export manager Ines Tenhofen and managing in 8 different European countries.
director Edwin Schwarzkopf.

Cooperation with award-winning start-up company

Roughly 11 million tons of plas- and climate change and sup- The two founders of Traceless Materials: Dr Anne Lamp (left) and
tic end up in the sea every year, ports the move away from fossil Johanna Baare.
and this figure could more than resources.
double in the decades to come. Apart from Das Futterhaus, Materials. Lufthansa and Otto
In the battle against global plas- German pet store chain Das another 40 consumer goods are among the first industry cus-
tic pollution, the young founders Futterhaus is enthusiastic about manufacturers and around a tomers to put the granulate pro-
Anne Lamp and Johanna Baare this idea. It aims to lend its sup- dozen companies from the plas- duced at the Traceless pilot plant
of the Hamburg start-up Trace- port as a company to the found- tics industry have expressed in Buchholz through its paces.
less Materials have developed a ers of the business and bring interest in the idea of Traceless
holistically sustainable alterna- the innovation into stores, said
tive to plastics and bioplastics. managing director Kristof Egg-
The innovative material, made erstedt on LinkedIn. “Our coop-
from plant by-products of the eration with Traceless is getting
agricultural industry, is com- underway with the development
pletely compostable naturally of pouches for our unpackaged
in a very short time, according concept, the popular food bar.
to the company. It thus helps to Specific plans are in hand for
combat global plastic pollution many other ideas for using this
ingenious material.”

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