Barentz expands animal nutrition sales team

Barentz, a distributor of life science ingredients and specialty ingredients throughout North America, has appointed Brian Esters as a new poultry national account manager.

He has extensive poultry industry sales and management experience, having worked at Arm and Hammer, Quality Technology International, Biozyme Inc, Tyson Foods, Georges Inc., and OK Farms.

In addition to his experience managing teams of over 100 employees, he has more than 18 years of live production experience in broilers, broiler breeders, and feed milling. And he holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Poultry Science) from the University of Arkansas, reported Barentz.

The company said it sees this appointment as a way of accelerating its growth in the feed additive space.

Established in 1953, Barentz sources branded specialty ingredients from leading manufacturers worldwide. Its ingredient experts work to provide value-added technical support including pre-mixing, blending, ingredient formulation and ingredient testing from the company's formulation centers and application laboratories in EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. 

Barentz employs around 2,600 people worldwide, and it reports annual turnover of around €2.5bn.