Regardless of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing challenges to manufacturing actions, Ukrainian pet meals enterprise Suziria Group is growing its manufacturing capacities by the opening of a brand new manufacturing facility in Kalush, within the nation’s western half. The enterprise additionally managed to open three new warehouses this 12 months, in keeping with senior firm representatives.
Suziria Group’s first pet meals plant is positioned in Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s japanese half the place Russia’s army assaults have been centered. Manufacturing actions on the manufacturing facility have been briefly halted on February 24 as Russian troops invaded, but later restarted. Nevertheless, the group determined that, to make sure uninterrupted manufacturing, it could be essential to open a second plant in western Ukraine the place the state of affairs is extra secure.
Second pet meals plant up and operating in 4 months
Polina Kosharna, co-owner and head of the supervisory board of Suziria Group, mentioned the venture to suit the brand new facility in Kalush with new, trendy gear to supply pet meals and treats, and provoke manufacturing, took lower than 4 months.
She additionally offered background on the corporate. “Suziria Group is a Ukrainian household enterprise incorporating Suziria Manufacturing, Suziria Distribution and the MasterZoo chain of pet outlets,” Kosharna defined. “Based 29 years in the past, Suziria Group now operates throughout the nation and overseas, exporting merchandise beneath its Priroda, ProVET, PET Style, Particular One, Savory and Essence manufacturers.
“At present, Suziria Group operates greater than 10,000 sq. meters [107,640 square feet] of manufacturing amenities and greater than 14,000 sq. meters of warehouses,” she continued. “The complete-scale invasion of Russian troops has affected many enterprise processes, in addition to logistics.”
The brand new manufacturing facility is to be operated by 45 staff and is predicted to create additional jobs as Suziria Group will increase its output capacities, she mentioned.
Increasing pet meals product strains and exports
“Suziria Group’s firms export their merchandise to greater than 10 nations internationally, together with the U.S., Germany, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Jordan, Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan,” Kosharna mentioned. “The group is actively engaged on securing additional overseas markets for our manufacturers.”
Wanting forward, Kosharna mentioned that, in early 2023, Suziria Group goals to launch plenty of new strains of moist cat and pet food merchandise, in addition to cat and canine treats beneath its personal model, Savory. “We may even develop the vary of the True Recent by Carnilove model,” she added.
Adamowski is a contract journalist primarily based in Warsaw, Poland. He has written on varied industries, together with pet meals, drinks, telecoms, power, protection and pensions, for quite a few English-language publications.
