BOCM Pauls

History

Pauls Agriculture was founded in Ipswich in the early 19th century, initially to trade in malt and barley for the brewing industry. This expanded into the trading of maize and other foods for horses. From the early 1900s, they started to produce food for other animals too.

BOCM Silcock, originally British Oil and Cake Mills Ltd. also started in the 19th century and was one of the earliest crushers of oilseeds to produce vegetable oils for human consumption and the manufacturing of soap. The by-product of this process, the oilseed cake, was a good source of protein for animal feed.

Pauls Agriculture and BOCM Silcock merged in 1992 to form BOCM Pauls. The company manufactured and sold animal feed in the United Kingdom and abroad. It offered feed for farm animals, pets and game birds. The company also offered beef compounds, dry feeds, moist feeds, minerals, organic products, together with forage products, such as fertilizers, grass seeds, maize seeds, and silage additives. It sold its products through a network of distributors around Europe.

BOCM Pauls was purchased by for €85 million in 2012 and the BOCM Pauls brand was retired in 2014. With sales of 10.1 million tonnes of feed annually, ForFarmers is the market leader in Europe. The company operates in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland and the United Kingdom and is called Lochem in the Netherlands. It has a total of approximately 2,600 employees and in 2019 the turnover was approximately €2.5 billion. --

References

References

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