AgriLabs History
To express our commitment in our business operations, AgriLabs broke the long-established business model of competition in the animal health industry, replacing it with collaboration. In addition to our own R & D efforts, which promise several new product introductions in the near future, AgriLabs has become the sales and marketing partner of choice for companies that have new, exciting technologies for animal health, but don’t have the ability to bring them to the U.S. market.
Here are some of our proudest achievements:
August 1984
Agri Laboratories, Ltd. established as a buying group with 25 distributor/members and founding management team.
September 1984
AgriLabs® label is introduced for a line of large animal biological, pharmaceuticals and insecticides.
January 1985
First Performer® brand products for companion animals is launched.
November 1985
Prolabs® label prescription products are introduced.
July 1987
Distributors/shareholders consolidate outstanding stock, making AgriLabs 100% distributor-employee owned. New corporate sales, marketing and distribution headquarters is dedicated in St. Joseph, Missouri.
June 1989
EquiLabs® line of products for horses is launched.
January 1991
Abbreviated New Animal Drug Applications (ANADAs) are eligible for approval under the Generic Animal Drug Law.
June 1992
AgriLabs attained and marketed the first ANADA (generic animal drug application), Di-Methox® Soluble powder. Generic animal drugs have saved the industry many millions of dollars over the past 17 years. AgriLabs currently has 12 generic drug licensed products with more in various stages of research, making AgriLabs one of the leading generic drug companies in the United States.
May 1995
AgriLabs introduces its new management team with wide-ranging product development and marketing experience.
April 1996
The company increases its commitment to the small animal market with a new line of companion animal vaccines: Champion Protector®.
September 1997
Under an innovative marketing agreement, AgriLabs launches the first private label Ivermectin products: TOP LINE® for cattle and DOUBLE IMPACT® for cattle and swine.
October 1998
Under a unique manufacturer/distributor agreement, AgriLabs facilitates the development and launch of Titanium® and Master Guard®, revolutionary new lines of MLV cattle vaccines. These were the first vaccine lines with both Type 1 and Type 2 BVD protection. Today this product line is the standard by which all other 4/5-way viral products are measured.
December 2004
AgriLabs launched the SRP vaccine, Salmonella Newport Bacterial Extract, which uses totally new vaccine technology to provide unsurpassed immunity against salmonella in beef and dairy cattle.
January 2005
AgriLabs launched MYCOMUNE®, the first USDA licensed vaccine for prevention of mycoplasmal mastitis.
January 2008
AgriLabs acquries the tradename and marketing rights to the number one selling Colostrum supplement on the market, Colostrx.
January 2008
AgriLabs signs agreeement with Allflex, the worlds largest I.D. tag manufacturer, to have AgriLabs support Allflex sales in the U.S. and begin manufacturing of the AgriTag line.
October 2009
KMG Chemicals, Inc., a global provider of specialty chemicals, announces that it has formed a strategic partnership to have AgriLabs provide sales, marketing and technical support to KMGs insecticide line in the United States.
October 2009
AgriLabs acquired the exclusive sales, marketing and distribution rights for the PULMO-GUARD® family of Pasturella cattle vaccines: one-dose PULMO-GUARD PHM-1, PULMO-GUARD PH-M and the combination Express® 5-PHM previously sold by Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI).