President's Message

Welcome to our website. To make your visit more useful and informative, we’ve recently added a number of new design features, such as enhanced menu displays and a more effective search bar. But the more time you spend with us here on the website – or with our distributors and representatives in the field or our associates in the office – you’ll notice one thing remains the same: Our commitment to being your premier supplier of high quality animal health care products.

We’ve taken that commitment one step farther. It’s become our mission. And it’s best described by what we do best – ensure our products and services result in Healthy Animals, Healthy Savings and Healthy Value for our distributors and their customers. Over the years we’ve accomplished this mission by operating efficiently to keep prices low while aiming for higher standards of service every year. Just as importantly, we’ve kept the flow of new products into the market steady at 20 to 30 a year for over four decades. This effort to introduce additional products embodies our long-term commitment to the animal healthcare market.

Enjoy your visit. We appreciate your interest in what we do at Durvet, and applaud your dedication day in and day out to the health and care of America’s livestock and companion animals.

Bob Hormann
President/CEO Durvet, Inc.

Our History

When Durvet opened for business in 1970, its doors were literally attached to a van carrying its animal health care products warehoused in a tiny 500 square foot rented facility. Durvet was the first entity in the OTC animal health market to be involved with both manufacturing and distribution, and this vision proved to be the model for the animal health supply chain business. Its original 13 distributor/owners had combined annual sales of $20 million. But from those modest beginnings, Durvet itself has grown to over $140 million in sales, while each year its 19 independent distributor shareholders sell in excess of $1 billion of animal health and agriculture products.
Over the years, Durvet has diversified its inventory with equine care and pet health lines. After tripling sales between 1994 and 2004, it expanded its facilities in Blue Springs, Missouri, and currently operates from a 78,000 square foot warehouse with state-of-the-art logistics and distribution technology. The Durvet organization employs 35 people at its Blue Springs headquarters and supports 53 member distribution points with nearly 700 sales professionals strategically located around the country to meet the needs of livestock, equine and pet owners – offering them the product performance and affordability they demand.

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