Argenta, the New Zealand company dedicated to the creation, development and manufacture of products for the health of animals, is celebrating its 10th birthday this year.
Originally a small, South Auckland-based contract research company, Argenta is now a highly innovative and profitable international business with four locations in the US and New Zealand and 300 staff globally.
Argenta was borne out of a vision to create a company that could both invent, research and manufacture products for the global animal health industry – something that no other company was doing at the time. This specialty remains unique 10 years on.
“It’s quite unusual for a New Zealand company to find themselves in the position that Argenta finds itself in on its 10-year anniversary – it’s exciting and humbling, plus its pretty good going given there was a global financial crisis thrown in the mix,” says Argenta co-founder and managing director, Dr Doug Cleverly, who is based in Argenta’s South Auckland headquarters.
“We have matured as a company and are now being sought after by large American multinationals for both our research and manufacturing services, as well as for our intellectual property, which is pretty neat.
