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At the end of September, Vafo Group a.s. – one of the leaders in the Pet Food industry in Europe – has finalized purchase transaction of 100% shares in Carry Pet Food sp. z o.o.

Comprehensive legal advisory services of SPCG in the course of the transaction included performing of the due diligence examination and representing Vafo Group during negotiations of the transaction documentation, as well as support in finalizing the transaction.

“I am very pleased to welcome Carry Pet Food into the VAFO Group. This is a major step forward in our strategic goal, which is to be able to offer full assortment of treat products under the VAFO Group umbrella.” – claimed Pavel Bouska, CEO and the owner of VAFO Group.

“With VAFO we gained a strong strategic partner within the pet food industry. Together we will be able to develop many new functional premium treat products that will set the trend for European market.” – added Robert Tchórzko, CEO of Carry Pet Food.

The work of the team representing and advising Vafo Group was led by Wawrzyniec Rajchel, Partner. The transaction team was supervised by Agnieszka Kołodziej-Arendarska, Senior Associate, supported by Marta Szczawińska-Pogorzelska, Junior Associate. The implementation team also included Marcin Kubala – Partner, Łukasz Przyborowski PhD – Senior Associate, Tomasz Praschil – Associate, Marcin Balicki PhD – Associate and Piotr Piotrowski – Associate.

Vafo Group a.s. is a leading Czech producer of a premium and super-premium pet food, snacks and supplements for dogs, cats, rodents, rabbits, fish and exotic animals. The company is considered to be one of the fastest growing pet food producers globally. Vafo operates eight production facilities for dry and wet pet food and also for various types of treats with the total production exceeding 160 thousand tons per year. Its flagship brand Brit is distributed to more than 70 countries throughout four continents. Expected sales of the whole group in 2020 are around EUR 260 million.

Carry Pet Food Sp. z o.o. is a private label manufacturer specialized in production of high-quality chews for dogs. The company was established in 1992 in Weida/Thüringen in Germany and firstly was named “Weider Hundekauartikel”. The manufacture was mainly focused on producing pressed bones from rawhide and since then has been recognized as specialist in chews production. In 2009 company changed name to “Carry Petfood GmbH” and with its growing capacity it has moved in 2013 to the northern Poland to new modern factory meeting the highest quality standards.

 

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