SOPRAL

The history of Sopral goes back to 1866, when it first purchased the mill in Pont Réan, near Rennes, which is now home to the company’s current head office. The company’s original core business was milling, but it gradually turned towards other priorities, first towards cattle feed, then pet foods (1965) and later horse feed (1985). The company is a completely independent family business run by three cousins, Pierre Jolivet, Philippe Jolivet and Jean Mayol. Over the years, SOPRAL has acquired and developed considerable expertise and know-how in the very specific areas of extrusion, flaking, decortication and formulated compounds, and today is an important player on three main fields: pet food, under the Flatazor brand name, with a parallel activity, the manufacture of specifically tailored products; horse feed under the Dynavena brand name, and finally, intermediate food products (IFP), which it makes for a variety of agri-food industries.  

SOPRAL therefore intervenes in 3 specialist fields of animal nutrition:

• Dog food and cat food under the FLATAZOR brand name
• Horse feed under the DYNAVENA brand name
• Intermediate food products

 The current annual growth rate of these markets is somewhere between 10 and 15%.

SOPRAL today achieves a turnover of 17 million Euros and employs 85 people.

SOPRAL owns 2 separate specialised plants in Pléchâtel (30 km to the South of Rennes [35]) which serve the whole of its marketing territory: one high performance petfood plant and a unique and ultramodern horse feed plant. SOPRAL is thereby able to guarantee the irreproachable homogeneity and quality of its products everywhere.  

SOPRAL is resolutely open to the international market with 25% of its overall sales coming from exports. It is present in more than 30 countries across the world (Europe, Middle East, French overseas territories and departments etc.) and has a marketing subsidiary in Spain.

09/03/2005.