Hubbard Brings Customers From Ivory Cost and India Together to Share Experience

India - March 2008 Hubbard organised a visit for SIPRA from the Ivory Coast to Skylark Hatcheries in India. The main purpose of the visit was to give SIPRA a better understanding of the way of operating in India and to enhance interaction between the two companies by sharing their own experience in different parts of the world.

From left to right: Mr. Kapil (Tech. Services Hubbard), Mr. Jacky Michard (Evialis), Mr. Jagbir Singh (MD Skylark Hatcheries), Dr. L.Faye (VP SIPRA) Mr. S.Gotta (Production Manager SIPRA)

From SIPRA, Mr. S. Gotta, Vice President of SIPRA, and Dr. L. Faye, Production Manager, visited India along with Mr. Jacky Michard from Evialis, France. During the visit they mainly focused on tunnel ventilation systems, breeder cage management and broiler processing and marketing in India. Mr. Jagbir Singh, MD of Skylark Hatcheries Ltd., also explained them the features of the Indian poultry industry.

The SIPRA people were very much impressed with Skylark’s way of operating, their level of innovation and their commitment to the poultry industry. According to Mr. Gotta the visit was very useful to them and would help his company to go in the right direction in terms of investment and further growth. Dr. L. Faye was very impressed with the good breeder performance of the Hubbard F15 breeders peaking at 90%.

About SIPRA
SIPRA is a poultry company from the Ivory Coast in Western Africa, which has its own feed mill and processing plant and uses the Hubbard JV breeding stock.

About Skylark
Skylark Hatcheries Ltd. is one of the biggest companies based in Northern India, places about 400,000 Hubbard breeders per year. They have their own integration with a big feed mill and processing plant and produce about 30 million broilers per year.

About Hubbard
Hubbard, with more than 85 years of experience in selecting the best genetics for the broiler industry, provides solutions that focus on the economic performance, health and well-being of breeding stock. Hubbard specializes in state-of-the-art selection programs to improve the performance of their pure lines, and offers a range of products to respond to current and future needs of the broiler industry.

Hubbard operates its selection programs in 3 different R&D centres in North America and Europe, along with its own production sites in North America, Europe and Brazil. Hubbard has a longstanding experience in breeding, developing and marketing breeding stock for both conventional and alternative markets.

Presence in nearly 100 countries around the world and the support of dedicated teams involved in R&D, Production, Technical Service and Sales & Marketing assure the continuity to deliver quality products that are best suited to the different broiler markets throughout the world.

Hubbard is a company of Group Grimaud.