Note: Nestle (Swiss Owned) manufacturers Purina Animal Foods as well as now owns our last baby food company, Gerber. How the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allowed this sale is beyond me. I wrote in protest when I read notice Nestle was buying Gerber. Nestle also owns 5 new plants in Pakistan. Their own site touts these milk production plants and their aim to monopolize milk products. An example of this kind of product is Nestle's Good Start Baby Formula.
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Source: LegalView.com and PR-Inside.com
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Nestle opens petfood plant in Russia
Production is slated to start this autumn with an annual target of 40,000 tons
Release Date: Monday, September 10, 2007
Taking advantage of Russia's growing petfood market, Nestle Purina has opened a petfood plant in Russia's Kaluga region, south of Moscow. The exact number of pets in Russia is not known, but it is estimated at about 35 million. One in three Russians have a cat, while Russia's household dog population is the highest in Europe. Russia's petfood market is worth about US$1 billion, according to Euromonitor International.
The dry dog food plant in Kaluga will be run by a Russian branch of its subsidiary Nestle Purina PetCare. Production is slated to start this autumn with an annual target of 40,000 tons. Nestle has made a US$30 million investment in the project, hoping to capitalize on the rapid growth of Russia's petfood market. "The Russian market is not very fragmented. We have one main competitor - Mars. They arrived a bit earlier on the market. We are moving quite fast in our growth. We are moving faster than the market," says Yana Mikailova, director of Nestle Purina PetCare Russia.
Updated: Sep 12, 2007
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