With a spate of recent mergers and acquisitions between pet food suppliers and manufacturers in the last year, and the product becoming just one casualty of the developing Sino-US trade war, there is a level of volatility in the global market for pet food products. In the UK, overall demand for pet food has held stable, but with robust growth in certain product categories; sales of dog treats continue to grow both in value (by 4%) and volume (to a new high of 112,000 tonnes) in 2017. Internationally, global trade of animal fodder has facilitated the consolidation of agricultural production systems in many countries, and increasing specialization amongst processers, with exports of soybean and maize growing year on year.

Trade Finance Global can help to structure bespoke financing packages that enable the expansion of trade in these goods, offering a range of export factoring products to finance profitable ventures. TFG can also assist with the complex international transactions required to source and sell animal feeds, whether by supporting clients exposed to exchange rate fluctuations through provision of currency risk management products, or by constructing performance bonds or bank payment obligations to ensure that key processing and transport tasks are undertaken promptly and properly by agents involved in the transaction.