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Alltech

File:Logo-alltech.png
Company type	Private [1]
Industry	Animal health and nutrition
Founded	Nicholasville, Kentucky, United States 1980
Headquarters	Nicholasville
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Dr Thomas Pearse Lyons Founder and President[1]
Products	See Products section below.
Number of employees	2,650[2]
Website	www.alltech.com

Alltech is an American animal health and nutrition company, headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. Alltech develops agricultural products for use in both livestock and crop farming, as well as products for the food industry.^[4] Alltech has 3,000^[5] employees in 128 countries^[2]. It has three bioscience centres and 32 manufacturing facilities worldwide.^[4] Alltech has been growing at an average rate of 20 to 25 per cent per year^[6] and operates under three main divisions: Animal Nutrition and Health; Crop Science; and, Food and Beverage

Alltech was founded by biochemist Dr Pearse Lyons in 1980 in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr Lyons was born in Dundalk, Ireland and was educated in University College Dublin and the University of Birmingham, England, where he received a PhD in the Biochemistry of yeast. Working with Irish Distillers, he was involved in the design of its Midleton, Co. Cork facility. In 1980, he founded Alltech and the company began to supply biotechnology-derived ingredients to the livestock and poultry feed industry. The company opened its first international office, in Ireland, in 1981. A year later, in 1982, the company built the North American Bioscience Center in Kentucky. Yea-Sacc 1026, Alltech’s first animal feed additive product, was launched in 1983. In 1988, Alltech UK opened.

The company’s first continental European offices opened in Germany and France in 1991. In 1992, the yucca processing plant Industrializadora de Yuca facility was founded in Ciudad Serdan, Puebla, Mexico. Alltech opened its first Asia-Pacific office in Beijing, China in 1994. The Asia-Pacific Bioscience Center, Bangkok opened in 1996. The first North American University Seminar Series was in 1995 and Alltech’s first US regional office opened in New York in 1997. In 1999, the company’s European Bioscience and Marketing Center opened in Dunboyne, Ireland.

Alltech won the AFIA environmental award for the third year in a row in 2000 and was awarded several research grants in the same year by the US Department of Energy. In 2005, Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher formally opened the company’s expanded headquarters, which was then 56,000ft2 in size. The same year, Alltech was certified under the AFIA’s Safe Feed Safe Food program.^[7] In 2009, the Centre for Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition was officially opened in Lexington, Kentucky and expanded its production facilities in both China and Belgium.^[8] In 2010, Alltech bought one of the largest algae facilities in the world.

The Lyons Farm meat brand was launched in 2012^[9] as a partnership between Alltech and Critchfield Meats.^[10] The meat is currently available in 150 Ohio and Kentucky restaurants and stores. The poultry line is due to be released in 2012 and other products will be produced in the future. It is also available to buy online.^[11]

In 1999, Dr. Pearse Lyons reopened the Lexington Brewing Company. The company’s first beer was Kentucky Ale, created in 2000 and Kentucky Light was launched in 2003. ^[12] Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale was launched in 2006.^[12] It is matured for six weeks in a bourbon barrel and is available in nine US states, as well as in Ireland and China.^[13] In 2011, Lyons launched Town Branch Bourbon, named after the waterway on which Lexington is founded.^[13] In the summer of 2012, Irish newspaper The Examiner reported that Alltech will distill a new Irish whiskey at the Carlow Brewing Company. The drink’s name has not yet been released.^[14]

Alltech’s coffee is a Fair Trade product grown by farmers in Haiti and the profits go to Alltech’s Sustainable Haiti Fund. This fund supports educational and economic development in the country.^[15] The green coffee grown in Haiti is roasted by Lexington Coffee & Tea in the US.^[16]

One of the core parts of Alltech’s research is nutrigenomics, which focuses on the effect of nutrition on gene expression. In order to further its research, the company opened the Center for Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition at its Kentucky headquarters in 2008. This is the first facility of its kind, according to the company.^[17]

Alltech offers internships to undergraduates and graduates, such as the Marketing Internship Program and the Research Internship Program. The Alltech Young Scientist Award is for undergraduate and graduate students worldwide. The Alltech-IFAJ Young Leaders in Agricultural Journalism Award gives winners a scholarship to support their participation at an IFAJ Congress.^[18]

In 2006, Alltech announced that it was to become the first title sponsor of the World Equestrian Games, the biggest sport horse event in the world, for the 2010 games reputedly at a cost of $32m.^[19] The company will also be the title sponsor of the 2014 Games, which will be held in Normandy, France.^[20]