CMI & Grupo Bios alliance
- CMI Corporacion and Grupo Bios announced an alliance to expand pet‑nutrition distribution across Central America and the Caribbean. - The partnership aims to boost regional manufacturing and distribution reach for pet food brands. - The move reshapes local supply chains and competitive dynamics among agroindustry manufacturers in the region. (x.com)
CMI and Grupo Bios have formed a joint venture to sell more pet food across Central America and the Caribbean. (somoscmi.com) CMI announced the alliance on April 14, 2026, saying it will combine Grupo Bios’s premium pet-food business with CMI Alimentos’ regional distribution, infrastructure and market reach. (somoscmi.com) The deal adds Grupo Bios brands including Vivance, Nutriss, Ringo, Mirringo and Filpo to CMI’s existing pet-food lineup of Rufo, Alimiau, Rambocan and Alimax. (grupobios.co, somoscmi.com) CMI enters the partnership with a broad regional footprint: the company says it has more than 54,000 employees and operations in more than 15 countries. Grupo Bios says it has more than 70 years in Colombia’s agroindustrial sector. (somoscmi.com, grupobios.co) The alliance follows CMI’s December 9, 2024 expansion of its Masagua, Guatemala plant, where the company said a new extrusion line lifted animal and pet-food capacity from 15 to 25 metric tons an hour. (somoscmi.com) That sequence ties manufacturing to shelf space: Grupo Bios brings a larger pet-food portfolio, and CMI brings factories, warehouses and routes already built for food distribution in the region. (somoscmi.com, somoscmi.com) For retailers and rivals, the immediate change is scale. A single platform can now offer dog and cat food across economy and premium segments under brands from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia. (somoscmi.com, grupobios.co, somoscmi.com) The companies have framed the move as regional expansion rather than a full merger, and neither side disclosed financial terms in the announcement. The next test is execution: getting those brands into more stores across Central America and the Caribbean without rebuilding the supply chain from scratch. (somoscmi.com)
