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Brakke 咨询公司的
Animal Health News & Notes for October 17, 2003
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新闻报道:
Alcide（收入）
班菲尔德
Bayer CropScience
农田
吉尼赛拉
赫斯卡
Labelclick
孟山都
Organic BreadBasket
先灵葆雅
史密斯菲尔德
Synbiotics Europe
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公司业绩发布
> Alcide Corporation released financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended Aug. 31, 2003. Alcide earned $92,767 on total revenue of $5.2 million during the quarter ended Aug. 31, 2003. In the first quarter a year ago, Alcide earned $61,669 on revenues of $5.0 million. (Business Wire)
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BRAKKE CONSULTING 宣布新研究
营养生长促进剂
过去几年来关于在动物饲料中使用非治疗性抗生素的争论更加强调使用“天然”产品作为替代品的可能性。
几年前，Brakke Consulting, Inc. 发布了一份关于直接饲喂微生物产品和酶的报告，这些产品属于此类天然产品。现在，我们更新了这些部分，并添加了酸化剂和植物药两部分，以制作更完整的报告。
该报告回答了以下问题：
– 对这些产品的重视是否导致销售额大幅增长？报告按产品组、品种和全球地区详细介绍了销售额。
– 谁是这项业务的主要参与者？该报告介绍了 17 家公司，我们认为这些公司至少占据了 80% 的市场份额。
– 生产商和兽医对这些产品有何看法？我们进行了一次小型市场调查，并将部分生产商的评论纳入了报告中。
– 这些产品是如何监管的？其中包括美国和欧洲产品法规部分。
– 酸化剂到底有什么用处？报告讨论了显而易见和不那么显而易见的用途。
– 直接饲喂微生物部分涉及哪些产品？报告按主要类型对产品进行细分，并对每种产品进行评论。
这份共 100 页的报告深入研究了新兴产品、产品趋势和用途，以及使用这些产品的结果（我们现在称之为营养生长促进剂）。
如果您的公司目前参与该细分市场或与其竞争，我们相信您会发现本报告提供的见解和方向很有价值。
如需了解详情或订购，请致电 972-243-4033 或发送电子邮件至 John Short jshort@brakkeconsulting.com.
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公司新闻稿
> Schering-Plough and Heska announced that Schering has acquired the US distribution and marketing rights for Tri-Heart Plus Chewable Tablets, Heska’s recently approved canine heartworm preventative. Tri-Heart Plus is a generic ivermectin and pyrantel pamoate product. Financial details were not disclosed. (company press release)
> Smithfield Foods Inc. announced it was the successful bidder at the bankruptcy auction to buy the assets of Farmland Industries Inc.’s pork business for $367.4 million and the assumption of some of the cooperative’s debt. Smithfield’s agreement to assume the pension obligations was valued at $90 million by the debtor. (Meating Place)
> Banfield, The Pet Hospital, awarded more than half a million dollars in profit-sharing bonuses for fiscal-year 2002, the most ever distributed. The bonuses were distributed to doctors at hospitals that exceeded their 2002 profit and revenue plans. (DVM Newsmagazine)
> Vertical Health Solutions, Inc. announced the commencement of trading of its units on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol VHSLU. The company’s SB-2 Registration was declared effective April 21, 2003. Vertical Health Solutions, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Labelclick, Inc., develops, markets and distributes private label health products to veterinarians in the companion animal sector. (company press release)
> GeneThera, Inc. announced that it has commenced development of a genetic vaccine for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The vaccine works in conjunction with GeneThera’s live blood test for CWD. The vaccine will be the first using GeneThera’s Purivax technology, a method of purifying vaccines to prevent side effects. (AnimalNet)
> CANADA Organic BreadBasket of Winnipeg, Canada, is the first turkey company in North America to receive certification from Humane Farm Animal Care under the “Certified Humane” program. Organic Breadbasket works with specially selected and highly regulated sustainable family farms in Canada and the US to produce turkeys that are labeled either Certified Humane or Certified Organic and Certified Humane. Organic BreadBasket markets its turkeys under the POP’S FARM brand. (Wattnet Meatnews)
> GERMANY Synbiotics Europe announced that Germany has approved a new ELISA test kit for diagnosing Johne’s disease in cattle. The Serelisa M.ParaTB AB Mono Indirect, detected antibodies against Mycobacterium avium spp paratuberculosis, the causative agent of Johne’s. The test can detect subclinically ill cattle as well as overtly diseased animals. (Animal Pharm)
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Brakke Consulting 宣布即将举办研讨会
“提高招聘和面试技巧”
November 18 – 19, 2003
建立和维持高绩效组织最重要的活动之一是招募、选拔和留住高素质人才。然而，大多数组织很少花时间制定一致的流程，并为组织内肩负这一重要责任的管理人员提供适当的培训。
Brakke Consulting 与 Pegasus Training 联合设计了为期一天半的培训研讨会，讨论提高优秀人才的招聘、选拔和保留所需的技能。
研讨会将由在招聘和培训活动方面拥有多年经验的顾问讲授。确定、评估、面试和聘用符合贵公司人员要求的个人是一项挑战。本次研讨会将帮助贵公司的与会者应对这一挑战。
研讨会将于 11 月 18 日至 19 日在达拉斯举行。如果您有任何其他问题，请致电我们的达拉斯办事处 972-243-4033。您也可以在我们的网站上进行在线注册 www.brakkeconsulting.com.
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动物健康新闻
> US The USDA reported that final tests confirmed that cattle held at the Mexican border because of blisters in their mouths did not have foot-and-mouth disease. Mexico closed the US-Mexican border to livestock trade when the lesions were discovered last week. (AnimalNet – AP)
> ITALY The Health Ministry confirmed Italy’s 111th case of BSE, saying a cow from a breeding farm near Parma had tested positive. Since its first case in 2001, Italy has logged 50 positive cases in 2001, 36 in 2002, and 25 so far this year. In August, Italy reported its first human fatality from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, apparently due to eating BSE-tainted meat. (Meating Place)
> FRANCE Officials in France have destroyed a herd of cows in Corsica after one of the animals tested positive for BSE, the first case discovered on the island. The infected animal, born in 1989, was killed and its body incinerated. (AnimalNet – Agence France Presse)
> EU The European Commission has approved 147 million euros financial package to fight transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) and other animal diseases in the EU in 2004. Approximately 93 million euros will go to financing BSE and scrapie monitoring and eradication. (AnimalNet – EC press release)
> US General Fire & Casualty Company announced the launching of its new livestock insurance product, The CattleGuard. The CattleGuard policy provides coverage for loss involving certain diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease, BSE, rabies, anthrax and other specified diseases, even if such a disease outbreak is a result of an act of terrorism. Also covered are other basic causes of loss, such as fire, flood, earthquake, lightning and shooting. Extreme weather, such as tornadoes and blizzards, can also be insured. (company press release)
> US The American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation brought leading canine cancer researchers from the United States, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom together for a workshop-style scientific forum on canine cancer. The 3rd Annual Canine Cancer Conference, Genes, Dogs and Cancer, was held on September 5-7 in Seattle, Washington. The participants presented the latest canine cancer research findings; including the results of new drugs, vaccines, treatments and clinical trials, some of which have implications for humans as well as dogs. Cancer is now the leading disease-related cause of death in dogs. (PRNewswire)
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农业商业新闻
> Monsanto Co. and Bayer CropScience have reached a broad truce in many longstanding patent disputes, agreeing to dismiss several lawsuits against each other. Under the deal, Monsanto and Bayer CropScience agree to license each other for various patented technologies, including products that are insect resistant and herbicide tolerant. Among other things, the agreement calls for Monsanto to have a royalty-bearing license to Bayer’s enabling technology involving Monsanto’s corn-rootworm product. Both companies also will amend existing licenses for each other’s technologies for cotton and other crops. Monsanto reached a similar agreement in April of last year with DuPont, the parent of Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (AP)
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BRAKKE 咨询观点
During the past two weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to interface with several distributor groups serving the animal health industry. I’m always impressed with the insights and knowledge of the real happenings in the market place that distributors possess. The particular distributors that I interfaced with appear to have an excellent and realistic understanding of their customers needs and are open to providing improved and new services to support their customers’ needs.
It is not always easy for a distributor to serve two masters at one time. What the manufacturers request from the distributors is not always consistent with the needs and desires of the distributor’s customer. How these points of differences are solved sometimes causes conflict between the two parties and a level of distrust that impacts performance for both sides. Meanwhile, the customer sits on the sideline hoping that at least one of the two parties will listen to their needs. In the long term, the customer is normally right.
Also, during these past two weeks my airplane time has allowed me the time to review and approve the draft of the Nutritional Growth Enhancers Market Study. The findings of this report clearly identify various reasons as to why the market has moved towards nutritional and supplement products to solve animal health production and health needs. The area of nutritional growth enhancers is one of the few in animal health that has experienced growth in compounded double digit rates the past few years.
Earlier in the newsletter we discussed in more detail several of the areas covered in this report. We thank those of you who have already ordered the report. You’re getting a great value. This report, if it had been produced for only one company, would have cost $30,000 to $35,000. By purchasing a copy of this syndicated study you get the same quality report for 20% of the cost of a proprietary study.
Have a great weekend!! I’ll be in South Dakota trying to corner some pheasants and will report the successes or failures next week.
罗恩·布拉克
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