Provimi expands in North America

The Provimi Group, one of the global leaders in the animal nutrition business, has strengthened its position in the United States further with the acquisition of two Californian companies, a premix/base mix manufacturer and a nutritional supplements producer. Provimi’s subsidiary NANCO (North American Nutrition Companies) and AFS (Associated Feed and Supply), a regional supplier of minerals, dairy ingredients and speciality feeds, have jointly acquired Nutrius LLC and Virtus Nutrition LLC, two companies strategically located in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley in California. Nutrius is a major premix and base mix manufacturing company, Virtus Nutrition is an international manufacturer and distributor of rumen protected fats. Together the companies had sales of € 56 million in 2005 and employ about 80 people.