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Grupo Pet Company Overview and Operations

Grupo Pet was established in 2001 in Colombia and has since expanded to other countries in Central America and the Caribbean. It focuses on pet food and has 52 employees. It owns two warehouses and uses three trucks for delivery. It supplies about 1,000 retail outlets, including 900 veterinary clinics. For ocean cargo, it uses the ports of Cartagena or Barranquilla and estimates importing 8 containers of 40 feet in the first year.

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Grupo Pet Company Overview and Operations

Grupo Pet was established in 2001 in Colombia and has since expanded to other countries in Central America and the Caribbean. It focuses on pet food and has 52 employees. It owns two warehouses and uses three trucks for delivery. It supplies about 1,000 retail outlets, including 900 veterinary clinics. For ocean cargo, it uses the ports of Cartagena or Barranquilla and estimates importing 8 containers of 40 feet in the first year.

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Good afternoon, Sr Matt

According to your e mail, I am going to tell you about our company.

Grupo Pet was born in 2001, focus on the pet food, around the years we have been improving,
growing and working also in new pet lines such us pharmaceutics, accessories and games.

Actually, we have presence in Colombia, in some Middle America countries and in the Caribbean.

Our work in Colombia is focused on Vets and Pets trading Colombia S.A. being at the same time
the exclusive distributor of IDEXX Laboratories and Richmond.

Now, I am going to answer each one of your questions:

 In what year was your company established? : 2001year


 Number of employees: 52 employees
 Are you currently distributing other pet foods? No
 Please tell us about your distribution model, such as…
o Do you have your own…
 Warehouse : 2 own wineries
 Sales staff : 10 persons and 2 call center
 Delivery availability : we made by ourselves the delivery
 Vehicles : 3 trucks
 Retail Stores : we do not have pet shop, just one independent e –
commers of a lot of brands.
o If so, how many? N/A
 Do you use sub-distributors? All the distrubution is by ourselves        
o If so, how many? N/A
 Do you currently import any other USA Brands of pet food? NO
o If so, what brands? N/A
o If not, are you aware of the import regulations on US branded pet food for your
market? Yes, in our company we have an intern regulation department
 Total number of retail outlets you currently supply that carry pet food and/or pet related
products? 1.000 points of shop on the country.
 What channels do you cover:
o Vets/Clinics/Hospitals? 900
o Internet Sales? 15
o Mass/Home Centers? 2
o Grocery Stores/Department Stores? 6
 What is your local port of discharge for ocean cargo containers? Cartagena or
Barranquilla
o This will enable us to secure freight rates from our factory to your port
 Please provide your estimated purchase volume, for year one, in number of 20’ or 40’
ocean cargo containers? 8 containers of 40 foot
o 20’ ocean container shipment is our minimum requirement per order
o We can ship approximately 10,000 kilos of product in a 20’ and 20,000 kilos in a
40’ ocean container

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