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Bucharest, Romania, August 8th, 2018 - Nordic Petfood, the largest Romanian petfood producer, joined United Petfood, a European group active in the production of dry pet food, biscuits and snacks for retailers and brand owners.

The Romanian shareholders took the decision in order to accelerate the future development of the Nordic Petfood companies. The inclusion within United Petfood, enables Nordic Petfood to continue its growth in the Eastern European region within a strong group.

"Nordic Petfood, production and distribution, will step up onto the next level: increase of production capacity, enter into new foreign markets, product innovation and portfolio expansion, while bringing more value to our clients", said Iulia Stana, Managing partner with Nordic Petfood.

"As member of United Petfood we have the opportunity to find the best external partners to help us meet high standards of quality, innovation and security in the production process" added Iulia Stana.

Nordic Petfood will continue to be managed by the existing management team and all Nordic employees will all become part of the United Petfood team. United Petfood has many years of know-how and experience in the development and production of dry pet food and snacks, which can bring significant opportunities to Nordic in the medium and long term.

"The transaction with Nordic Petfood is in line with the strategy of United Petfood, to strengthen and further grow the business and be the best partner for our customers worldwide. This partnership is based on innovation, product quality, production efficiency and logistic services. We aim to continue and further develop relationships with personnel, customers and suppliers of Nordic Petfood", said Dominiek Dumoulin and Dries Eeckhout from United Petfood.

• The combined group will generate a turnover of 275 million euros with industrial activities in 5 European countries (Spain, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Poland).
• By sharing the extensive experience of both companies in the development and production of dry pet food and snacks, the two companies will strengthen each other, which guarantees the existing jobs and the activities of the different plants.
• Following the joining of the two companies, Roger Mohr will remain CEO of Bynsa, while Mercadona will remain the main customer through its Compy brand.

The partnership has been reached after analysing the synergies that the joining of both companies generates. It will allow the resulting group, in which Roger Mohr will become a partner, to accelerate its growth and strengthen its industrial expertise in the development and production of dry pet food and snacks.

The joining of Bynsa and United Petfood means the creation of a combined group with 9 plants in Europe, located in Spain (1), Belgium (1), France (5), the Netherlands (1) and Poland (1); and an industrial capacity of more than 400.000 tons of food and snacks for dogs and cats manufactured exclusively for third companies. In fact, Mercadona will continue to be the main client of the new project, as the pet food under the Compy brand will continue to be produced at the Burgo de Ebro facilities.

The geographical complementarity of both companies guarantees the continuation of the activities of the different facilities, as well as the existing jobs. In addition, the exchange of know-how will enable the new group to consolidate and accelerate its growth with a common philosophy based on food safety, quality, flexibility and innovation.

According to Roger Mohr, CEO of Bynsa, "the partnership reached makes Bynsa, a company that I have been driving since 2007, a key part of a much more ambitious project that will enable all of us who are part of it not only to achieve the goals set before but also to take on new investment and business challenges. In fact, the sum of synergies and know-how makes us much better in Spain, where our aim is to continue growing with Mercadona, through Compy, through quality and specialisation. But we will also be contributing with our products and strategic location to strengthen United Petfood's export business, as well as continuing to invest in R&D&I."

From United Petfood's side, the partnership with Bynsa enables the group to further develop its dry petfood, biscuits and snacks offering to customers in more than 40 countries. "Bynsa's state-of-the-art production facility in dry petfood and snacks fit our ambition to be our customers best partner through ensuring high quality and food safety, production efficiency and innovation.

In May our sales team was present at Interzoo in Nurnberg and PLMA in Amsterdam. We want to thank all our clients for visiting us at our booth. See you all again next year!

United Petfood, international producer of dog- and catfood with headquarters in Belgium, acquired the Dutch company Animal Lovers. Animal Lovers is a producer of biscuits for dogs, horses and rodents in Coevorden the Netherlands.

The acquisition of Animal Lovers fits in the strategy of United Petfood to strenghten its position in the international market of dog biscuits, states Dominiek Dumoulin founder of United Petfood. The Dutch company Animal Lovers has 25 years of experience in the development and production of dog biscuits. This high-end and wide range of biscuits is exported all over the world. This acquisition provides new possibilities for Animal Lovers to

pursue future ambitions.
The combined forces and knowhow enable United Petfood to further develop its expertise in the petfood market and to work further on new innovations and product developments.

Both companies will be able to stay ahead with the development of new and innovating products in collaboration with their clients.

As we did last year, we participate to the Pet Fair Asia in Shanghai.

If you would be in the neigbourhood, don't hesitate to visit us.

Hall 2 - stand: D3811.

HUNGRY FOR MORE?

12th September, we organised a familyday for all our collegues of our production site in Wimille (France). Everybody could bring their dearest and closest familymembers to show the factory.

With 120 people, the familyday was a real succes and we like to thank everybody who made this special day possible.