2020

Durvet celebrates its 50th Anniversary
Durvet completes a 54,000-quare-foot warehouse addition, expanding its Blue Springs facility
Durvet is named a "Best Company to Work For" by Ingram's Magazine
The COVID-19 pandemic reshapes business operations across the animal health industry as well as accelerates online purchasing and e-commerce across the marketplace, creating new opportunities as well as added challenges surrounding unauthorized, unapproved and counterfeit products sold online

Warehouse Extension from 2020

2021

Durvet reaches 50 employees
FDA finalizes Guidance for Industry (GFI) #263, beginning the two-year transition of remaining over-the-counter medically important antimicrobials for animals to prescription status

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is confirmed in a U.S. commercial poultry flock in February, beginning a major multiyear animal health response affecting commercial and backyard poultry

FDA completes implementation of GFI #263, bringing affected medically important antimicrobial drugs for animals under veterinary oversight ad prescription products
The federal COVID-19 public health emergency ends, closing a period that significantly affected supply chains, workplace practices and purchasing behavior across animal health and agriculture

Image of Penicillin with a Prescription paper that has guidance #213 on it

Durvet reaches 75 employees
Durvet is named a "Best Company to Work For" by Ingram's Magazine for the second time this decade
Durvet completed the first in a series of aisle compressions to maximize capacity without expanding the building footprint - achieving a 67% capacity increase
Durvet adds Modula automated storage technology to the warehouse contributing to a 90% space savings for fill-in item storage
HPAI H5N1 is confirmed in U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, expanding the ongoing avian influenza response into the livestock sector
New World Screwworm is detected in southern Mexico in November, prompting expanded USDA prevention and preparedness efforts to protect U.S. livestock and other animals

Image of the Modula automated storage technology that got added to the warehouse contributing to a 90% space savings for fill-in item storage.

Dr. Katie Nordhus, Durvet Staff Veterinarian

Durvet adds a dedicated Human Resources function
Durvet purchases land for its next phase of facility growth
Durvet breaks ground on its next facility expansion
Durvet remembers longtime former President Bob Hormann and his wife, Beverly, following their passing
FDA finalizes a rule establishing a uniform 12-digit National Drug Code (NDC) format for human and animal drugs and the new format is scheduled to take effect March 7, 2033
New World Screwworm is confirmed in the United States, prompting an expanded federal and state animal-health response

Groundbreaking image of machines working on the new warehouse expansion

Durvet, Inc.

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