Spain's Cotecnica has announced the agri-food cooperative closed its 2025 financial year with revenue of some €169.2 million (US$195.2 million), up 7% year-on-year, with the development of the flagship Ownat pet food brand serving as one of the main driving forces behind its development.
Last year, Ownat reported a 19% revenue increase compared with the preceding financial year. Owing to those positive results, the brand maintained its double-digit annual growth rate, and also expanded its share of the cooperative's entire pet food business to as much as 76%, local industry news site IMveterinaria.es reported.
Encouraged by its increasing sales, in 2025, Cotecnica invested some €10 million with the aim to enhance its research and development capacities and support further growth with innovative products. As part of these efforts, the cooperative's key initiative was related to the opening of a new laboratory. Other projects were related to improving Cotecnica's operational and industrial process optimizations.
Based in Lleida, in Spain's eastern autonomous community of Catalonia, Cotecnica says that, in addition to its domestic market, the cooperative exports products to more than 40 countries worldwide.
Cotecnica says that, benefiting from "fresh, natural and local ingredients … [sourced from] our unbeatable location in an agricultural area, the plain of Lleida" the cooperative produces "premium and super-premium real food with natural ingredients for pets."
Currently, around 66% of the cooperative's pet food sales are generated by exports, whose share in Cotecnica's revenues continues to grow. Over the past five years, the Spanish business has expanded its international revenue by as much as 267%.
Some of Cotecnica's foreign markets include Belgium, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan and Tunisia.
Alongside Ownat, the cooperative also sells its pet food under a number of other brands, including Cotagro, Pylkron and Brokaton, according to data released by Cotecnica.
Turkey's Hermos Pet expands export sales
Turkish pet food producer Hermos Pet is expanding its international foothold, with exports of cat and dog food now reaching more than 50 countries across the world.
Based in the Salihli organized industrial zone in Manisa, in Turkey's western part, Hermos Pet has an annual production capacity of 120,000 metric tons, and, owing to investments in renewable energy sources, it now sources 35% of its energy needs from solar panels, local news agency IHA reported. At the same time, the Turkish business says it continues to advance new projects designed to reduce its production facility's carbon footprint, and also implements recyclable packaging initiatives.
Hermos Pet supplies its products to a number of countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. These include Azerbaijan, France, Ghana, Malaysia, Russia and Saudi Arabia, among others. Some of the pet food maker's brands include Paw Paw, Benefit, Kicker, Mystic, MyFood, HowMeow, Tasty and Cuddy, among others. The business brands itself the country's "first food factory with human food standards."
Set up in 2016, Hermos Pet is operated by a workforce of more than 300 employees. The company's plant in Manisa was launched in February 2017, and it is fitted with a total surface of 13,500 square meters (145,300 square feet), according to data released by the pet food business.
Turkey's Manisa province is driving the nation's rising pet food production, as it reached a share of around 68% of the nation's total pet food output in 2024, according to figures from the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
"In 2024, the total cat and dog food production in Turkey stood at 268,616 tons, 181,713 tons of which were produced at production facilities in Manisa," the Turkish ministry said in the statement.
