Camel racing aids firm’s expansion

Cork-owned Mervue Laboratories is investing €2m into new manufacturing facilities and plans to increase its staff count by 25 to 75 people in Watergrasshill in the next three years as part of a huge expansion of its animal nutrition business.

The company, with bases in Bulgaria and Lithuania, also plans to open a manufacturing facility in the Netherlands and open a sales office in the US next year.

Mervue has had particular success in the Middle East and the Gulf where it sells its own nutrition products for the huge camel-racing industry there. “We make the equivalent of electrolytes and probiotics nutrition products, but only they’re for camels,” said William Twomey, commercial director at Mervue.