In 1855, the company H. von Gimborn was founded as a chemical-pharmaceutical factory by pharmacist Heinrich von Gimborn. Initially, the company focused on producing pastes and tablets for human consumption – analogous to today's products for animals.

Since 1965, when we created the first lactose-reduced milk for rearing kittens, we have been manufacturing our products at our factory in Emmerich am Rhein in the Lower Rhine region right on the Dutch border. Over time, we expanded our focus to include dogs and our brand GimDog entered the pet food snack sector alongside GimCat.

Since 1997, we have been using our accumulated knowledge of all things ‘cat’ to bring everything full circle and create cat litter from betonite, a naturally occurring clay found in Bavaria. Cat ...