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10 years in Ireland

It’s ten years ago that Radio Sys- are Irish, and the rest are from
tems Petsafe Europe made County across the globe – from Argen-
tina to India, South Africa to Iran,
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Your animal and us! and many other countries in be-
A good team - for a lifetime.
tween. They work in the com-
pany’s multilingual customer
services centre, finance, order
management, supply chain, mar-
Louth, in the Republic of Ireland, keting and human resources de-
the home of its European head- partments, accompanied by their
quarters. The company is a sub- ten or so canine companions.
sidiary of US-based Radio Sys- During the last decade, Ra-
tems Corporation. dio Systems in County Louth Dave Verdon, international vice-president at Radio Systems’ European
headquarters in County Louth, Ireland.
From a somewhat modest has shipped 500 mio dollars’
beginning back in 2012, the Dun- worth of orders. These include tems’ European headquarters in from the last ten years. But we
dalk team has grown exponen- its Petsafe, Sportdog and Kurgo Ireland, says: “We’re obviously continue to look forward to what
tially, increasing from just five brands. delighted to mark such a mar- the future has in store for us.”
staff and two dogs to a cohort Dave Verdon, international vellous milestone, and we’ve
of 65. Of these, 22 employees vice-president at Radio Sys- certainly got a lot to celebrate

United Petfood takes over Because Animals is heading
two facilities of Cargill to Austria

United Petfood, a Belgium-based continue to provide a portfolio of The US start-up company Because up is currently planning to com-
leading international producer of pet its branded products, according to Animals, a Chicago-based spe- plete a Series A investment round
food, has announced the acquisition United Petfood. With the additional cialist in the development of labo- of at least 25 million dollars. As
of two facilities belonging to Cargill production plants, United Petfood ratory meat for pet food, has plans to why Because Animals chose
in Poland (Krzepice) and Hungary now operates 21 pet food facilities to establish a facility in Vienna Austria as a location, Falconer
(Karcag). The two sites specialise situated in nine different European in 2023. This was announced by cited personal reasons. “Firstly,
in the production of dry pet food for countries. The company says the CEO and co-founder Shannon Fal- Austria is a wonderful place to
cats and dogs. Cargill retains own- acquisition is in line with its strategy coner recently in an interview with live. My partner also already had
ership of its pet food brands and will to reinforce and grow the business. the multimedia start-up platform a job in the region, and we de-
Brutkasten. cided spontaneously to move
The new facility will aim to re- fully to Austria,” she said.
duce further the cost of pro-
ducing laboratory meat. At
present the planning phase
is being organised and the
facility is not expected to
open until mid-2023. In total
it will employ around 15 staff.
Falconer puts the invest-
ment costs at between ten Because Animals (left) received a
The photo shows the pet food plant in Poland (Krzepice), which special- and 13 million US dollars. Fressnapf Innovation Award only
ises in the production of dry pet food for dogs and cats. She explained that the start- recently.

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