28 July 2010
Ceva Animal Health , the French veterinary medicines group, has recruited two key executives to reinforce the management of its marketing organization. This is in line with the company's intention to make 2010 a ‘Year of Marketing’, adding further resource to support its strategic products.
Stefano ...
28 July 2010
Bayer Santé Animale in France has appointed
Thierry Demonceau
as business unit manager for its companion animal business unit.
Mr Demonceau had previously worked at Virbac since 2003, the last three and a half years as general manager of the food producing animal business unit within Virbac ...
13 July 2010
The UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) elected
Peter Jinman
as its new president for the 2010/11 year at its recent annual general meeting in London. He succeeds
Professor Sandy Trees
in the office.
Mr Jinman has worked in general practice all his life, initially in Worcestershire, ...
12 July 2010
Three Merial territory managers took the first three places in the British Excellence in Sales & Marketing Awards, judged by the UK's prestigious Ashridge Business School.
The competition attracted over 100 entries, including internationally recognised sales such as Virgin, npower and DHL. Merial ...
07 July 2010
The British animal health company Genitrix has appointed
Callum Henderson
as its account manager for Scotland and Northern Ireland. He will be responsible for building sales of the company’s products for companion animals, horses and exotic species to veterinary practices in the two regions. ...
05 July 2010
Markus Wesjohann
, the outgoing managing director of Germany’s Lohmann Animal Health, has joined the board of directors of the PHW Group, Lohmann’s parent company. He will assume responsibility for Lohmann Animal Health, the vitamin manufacturer Nutrilo, and the human-focused biologics company ...
30 June 2010
The UK’s Pig Veterinary Society, a division of the British Veterinary Association (BVA), has elected
Nigel Woolfenden
as its new president.
Mr Woolfenden is a partner in a North Yorkshire practice, and succeeds the Wiltshire vet Peter Bown. The PVS has also elected Mike Wijnberg of the ...
29 June 2010
Elanco Animal health, a division of Eli Lilly & Co, has recruited
Dr Nathan Pyatt
as a beef technical consultant for its US operations. Based in Illinois, he will provide technical support for the company’s business with feed companies in the upper Midwest, while also working with nutritionists ...
22 June 2010
Optivite, the specialist UK animal feed business acquired by Kiotech International in September 2009 (Animal Pharm 669, page 3), has appointed three new sales managers to raise its international brand sales.
Luis Cadena
joins as technical sales manager to develop the Middle East and North African ...
18 June 2010
Putney, the Portland, Maine-based manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals for companion animal health market, has appointed
Nancy Zimmerman
as director of professional marketing.
Dr Zimmerman, a veterinarian, will be responsible for overseeing communications with veterinarians and practice team ...
16 June 2010
The European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC) elected a new senior officer team (Praesidium) and president at the recent FEFAC 25th General Assembly in Hamburg, Germany.
The new president of FEFAC is
Patrick Vanden Avenne
, a partner and CEO of the Vanden Avenne Group based in Ooigem, ...
10 June 2010
AW (Dan) Tucker
, senior lecturer in veterinary public health at the University of Cambridge in the UK, is the winner of the 2009
Dieter Lütticken
Award.
The international award, sponsored by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health (I/SPAH), is made annually to recognise work in establishing ...
08 June 2010
The World Small Animal Veterinary Association has presented awards to veterinarians from the Netherlands, Norway and the US in recognition of their contributions to the clinical care of companion animals. The winners were announced at the opening of the association’s annual congress, which took ...
04 June 2010
Elanco has made a number of new appointments to the Food Solutions business unit that it set up earlier this year.
Dr
Jackson McReynolds
joins as a poultry technical consultant, after working as a research microbiologist at the US Department of Agriculture’s Southern Plains Agricultural Research ...
25 May 2010
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has re-elected its director general, Dr
Bernard Vallat
, for a third five-year term of office.
Official delegates from the 176 OIE member countries made the decision at the organization’s annual meeting in Paris this week. The election was conducted ...