British company, Bark & Birch Global Dog Services have officially opened their first offices in São Paulo, Brazil. This opening marks a hugely successful period of growth for the company who have expanded from just a few employees in the UK to hundreds of employees world-wide across the UK, Ireland, Portugal and the USA.
A large recruitment drive has begun in São Paulo, with employees recruited for all customer facing roles and management roles as well as dog trainers and doggy daycare staff across the city.
The company plan to open several doggy daycare centres in São Paulo to meet the demand of dog owners in the city and will also replicate the Board and Train residential training seen in the UK and USA with over 1000 dogs trained per month in these territories.
CEO of Bark & Birch, Nick Rijniers, who is only 28 years old has managed to lead the Global Dog Services company to global success in two short years, turning over $8 million dollars in the second year of business and the company predicted to be valued at $100 million in 2022 after a further investment round.
Rijniers, who started his career off in the Dutch Special Forces, training German and Belgian Shepherds started the company in 2019 in the UK with only two members of staff. Bark & Birch now has over 100 staff members globally and trains over 1000 dogs a month.The ethos of the company is to give both dogs and their owners a better life together.
Rijniers started the company with a view to providing an all-encompassing dog services company to include, doggy day-care, training, boarding and grooming as a one stop shop so that owners don’t have to drop their precious pups at various different places and for Bark & Birch to be the full trusted provider of dog services globally.
Nick Rijniers, CEO and Founder of Bark & Birch said:
“ We are so excited to launch in Brazil and the opening of our new offices in São Paulo is a huge step. We are excited to welcome our new staff members to the South American office and help and train thousands of dogs per month in São Paulo.”
“The decision to launch our services across Brazil came quite naturally and was a logical step on our business growth strategy. We are very excited about this new market as we have already seen great success In the UK, Ireland, USA and next stop, Canada and Asia!
“Our goal hasn’t changed since we first started, help dogs and their owners lead happier lives together!”
Head of HR for Bark & Birch, Paul Jelley said:
” This is a huge step in the growth of Bark & Birch and we are already recruiting some fantastic talent in São Paulo, we are extremely excited for the growth of the company and this next step.”
