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Brakke Consulting’s
Animal Health News & Notes for February 13, 2026
Copyright © Brakke Consulting
Editor: Christine Merle DVM, MBA, CVPM
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IN THE NEWS:
Brakke Consulting News
Brakke Consulting Industry Overview – Limited Spots at VMX
Tails of Talent: Branding Lessons to Win the Talent Game
Earning News
Trupanion
Zoetis
Company News
AB Science
Adatalem Global Education (Covista)
age1
Agrolimen
AVet
Bimeda
Bionote USA
Ceva
CVC Capital Partners
dsm-firmenich
Freshpet
James & Ella (UK)
Loyal
Modulant BIosciences
Norbrook
NorthStrive Biosciences
Ollie
Otto
Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals
PRISM MarketView
RD Lifesciences
Supertails (IN)
Venturi Partners (IN)
Yuyu Pharma
Animal Health News
United States
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Brakke Consulting
2026 Industry Overview
Presented at WVC:
Monday, February 16th , 2-4 pm
Four Seasons Ballroom 4
How did the top animal health companies perform in 2025? Did growth slow? What innovation in animal health can we expect and how will the animal health industry bring innovation to market? Answers to these questions and more will be covered at Brakke Consulting’s annual Industry Overview at the VMX and WVC conferences next year.
Key topics and presenters include:
- Industry and Top Global Company 2025 Performance, presented by Bob Jones
- Pet Care: Head Winds or Market Correction?, presented by John Volk
- Innovation in Animal Health: What in the world is it, presented by Chuck Johnson
- Where Innovation Meets Investment: What’s wrong and how to fix it, presented by Alexis Nahama
Also, again at both events, you’ll also hear directly from a panel of executive leaders in the animal health industry. Moderated by Bob Jones, this year’s WVC leadership panel features Fabio Paganini, President, USA Commercial Business at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health and Audrey Wystrach, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Petfolk. The discussion will be around Challenges and Opportunities in 2026 in animal health.
This information-packed 2-hour session will be especially valuable for executive leadership, sales and marketing, strategy, and finance managers and decision makers in the animal health industry.
Registration cost is $399 per person. Special group pricing for teams of five or more—pay for four participants, and the fifth is complimentary. To register a group of five or more, please email Amanda McDavid or call 336-396-3916 for assistance with registering.
Click here to register for WVC
We look forward to seeing you there!
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COMPANY EARNINGS NEWS
- Trupanion announced its Full Year 2025 results with total revenue of $1,493.3M an increase of 12%, subscription business revenue increased by 16%. Net income was $19.4M compared to a net loss in 2024. (company press release)
- Zoetisreported its Full Year 2025 results with revenue of $9.5B, reflecting a growth of 2%. Organic operational growth in revenue was 6%. Guidance for Full year 2026 expects a 3-5% organic operational growth. (company press release) .
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COMPANY NEWS RELEASES
- Ceva announced a relocation of its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters to Shanghaiand the appointment of Arnaud Leboulanger as Executive Vice President of its new APAC & China region. (com)
- Norbrook’sDefendazole, a bioequivalent generic fenbendazole, received FDA approval. (com)
- Bimedahas launched Eprimectin Pour-On, a generic eprinomectin option for beef and dairy operations. (company press release)
- BionoteUSA launches Vcheck U, an in-clinic urine chemistry and sediment analyzer. (company press release)
- Ottohas added AI business insights and recommendations as part of its OttoPilot AI functionality. (com)
- Private equity firm CVC Capitalhas agreed to purchase dsm-firmenich’s Animal Nutrition and Health business for 2B (US$2.6B). (reuters.com)
- Paradigm Biopharmaceuticalsand AVet have announced a co-development partnership of an oral osteoarthritis therapy creating a path to commercialization for Paradigm in the US and licensing rights for AVet in Australia and New Zealand. (com)
- NorthStriveBiosciences has signed a licensing agreement for commercialization of its Myostatin-Engineered Probiotic for Muscle Preservation in Animal Health to Modulant Biosciences. (businessinsider.com)
- Loyalhas raised $100M Series C funding with age1 leading the round, this brings the total investment since its late 2019 founding to over $250M. (com)
- AB Sciencereceived MUMS designations from the FDA for its Masivet in the treatment of canine mast cell tumors. (com)
- AdatalemGlobal Education, the largest US healthcare educator (including veterinary medicine), has changed its name to Covista. (company press release)
- Freshpetappointed John O’Connor as its new Chief Financial Officer. (com)
- Ollie, a fresh dog food maker, has been purchasedby Spain based Agrolimen, a family-owned conglomerate. (com)
- Willard Lemaster has been named Vice President of RD Lifesciences, a newly created role for the company. (company press release)
- PRISM MarketViewlaunched its PRISM PetCare Index, which will track publicly traded companies in the global pet care sector. (finance.yahoo.com)
- IN- Supertails, an India based integrated pet care platform, raised $30Min its latest round of funding led by Venturi Partners. (com)
- UK -Yuyu Pharmamade a strategic investment in James& Ella a freeze-dried pet food that is distributed through retail, direct-to-consumer and e-commerce channels. (com)
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Tails of Talent: Branding Lessons to Win the Talent Game
Why brand reputation, not just recruiting tactics — determines who you can hire
Join us Live at VMX or WVC!
Presented at:
WVC – Monday, February 16 | 10:00 – 11:00 am | Four Seasons Ballroom 4
In animal health, the war for talent isn’t won with job postings; it’s won with perception. It starts with how the market sees you. Join us for an insight-rich session that shows why companies with strong, trusted brands consistently attract better candidates, shorten time-to-hire, and boost long-term retention. Using fresh data and real examples from across the industry, our seasoned experts will walk you through how to evaluate your organization’s brand reputation and elevate it to the level top talent seeks out. Instead of chasing candidates, learn how to position your company as the place they want to be.
Presented by:
Jeff Santosuosso – Executive Recruiter – Brakke Consulting
Jake Yarbrough – Group Director – Schaefer Advertising
Click here to register. At only $49, this session is a high-value investment in the future of your recruitment strategy.
Please email Amanda McDavid or call 336-396-3916 for assistance with registering.
We look forward to helping you win the talent game.
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ANIMAL HEALTH NEWS
- US- NEW WORLD SCREWWORM- A ribbon cutting at the sterile fly distribution facility near Edinburg, TX announced its opening. (gov)
- US- YES TO CARE PROGRAM- With a $1.9M grant from the Dave and Cheryl Duffield Foundation, the development and implementation of the Yes to Care Program from partners Open Door Veterinary Collective, Varidi and The myBalto Foundation. (press release)
- US- PET TREATS- The National Animal Supplement Council (NASC) will expand its quality seal program to include pet treats. (com)
- US- PA FARMLAND- An investment of nearly $7.1M from the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Land Preservation Board will purchase development rights for almost 2,000 acres of farmland to protect them from future residential and commercial development. Pennsylvania leads the nation in preserved farms with more than 660,000 acres. (gov)
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BRAKKE CONSULTING VIEWPOINT
Mark Twain is credited to have said “The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
I recently returned from a trip to South Africa, a country halfway around the world, where currently the cattle and swine industries are fighting an economically devastating battle against Foot-and Mouth Disease (FMD). The spread has been country wide, even in the face of some vaccination efforts, animal movement control, and stringent bio-security measures. Recently the disease has also been diagnosed in Botswana and Zimbabwe, so it is a regional issue now.
A simple direct 16-hour flight brought me from Johannesburg South Africa to Newark and after passport formalities it was time to collect luggage and witnessing several hunters collecting gun cases, I struck up a conversation on where they hunted including within and around South Africa.
Soon we parted our way, some leaving the airport, while others to connecting gates. However, something was amiss,
during the late 2000s I travelled to Africa often and upon return all luggage was checked and boots were sanitized and put in plastic bags if one was not wearing them. At this airport, on this day, there was a glaring absence of biosecurity.
What has changed, only the odds. The risk of FMD entering the USA from Southern Africa in the late 2000s was significantly lower as the disease was contained to a small geographical area, but now it is widespread in cattle (beef and dairy), swine and wildlife, which increases the spillover risk.
As we are currently heavily focused on New World Screwworm, it would be worthwhile to be prepared for other risks as well including FMD.
Lourens Havenga
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YOUR VIEW
Last week we asked you about exports of animal-protein from Brazil- Your votes- Beef (63%), chicken (21%) and pork (16%).
On a volume basis, chicken meat is the largest, about 5.3 Metric tonnes (Mt) per year with beef coming in at 3 Mt exported per year. But on a value basis, beef is the largest at $13 billion, just ahead of chicken, which is about $10 billion. Pork significantly trails chicken and beef in volume and value at about 1.4 Mt exported per year, which is worth about $3.3B. And by the way, these are 2024 numbers…Brazil had record exports of pork and beef in late 2025, with poultry exports hitting an 11-month record.
This week let’s stay on the topic of FMD. The United States is officially FMD-free and there have been periodic false alarms or rule-out investigations. The first outbreak of FMD in the US and Canada was in 1870 and in Mexico, it was in the 1920s. The last outbreak of FMD in Canada was 1952 and in Mexico, 1954. Without the help of Google or AI, when was the last outbreak of FMD in the US?
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