Hill's Pet Nutrition will relocate its headquarters to Overland Park … – Kansas City Business Journal

Hill’s Pet Nutrition, one of the world’s 10 largest pet food manufacturers, plans to move its global and corporate headquarters to Overland Park.
Hill’s will relocate from Topeka to a 100,000-square-foot office at 6180 Sprint Parkway on the Aspiria campus by the fourth quarter, the company announced in a release.
The square footage could serve roughly 400 employees, according to campus owner Occidental Management’s parking ratio of four spaces per 1,000 square feet of leasable space. Hill’s could not be reached for comment to confirm the employee count.
The release states that the office design will feature “a modern approach to the workplace and an on-site dog park.” Aspiria’s location also will put the company’s leaders closer to Kansas City International Airport and provide more access to Kansas City.
Hill’s plans to continue its manufacturing operations in its Pet Nutrition Center, a 170-acre research and development campus in North Topeka, which includes a $30 million, 25,000-square-foot Small Paws Innovation Center that opened in late 2021.
“We are proud to extend our 75-year history in the Sunflower State,” Hill’s CEO John Hazlin said in the release. “We will continue investing in our science, innovation and manufacturing hubs in Topeka while expanding our footprint with the creation of a new hub for our global and U.S. headquarters in the greater Kansas City area.”
The company also will continue its manufacturing site in Emporia and start operating the recently completed $250 million manufacturing site in Tonganoxie later this year.
The dog and cat food manufacturer is a subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive Co. and had about 2,700 employees in 2021, according to Petfood Industry, a trade publication covering the global pet food industry.
Based on Colgate-Palmolive’s 2021 earnings announcement, Hill’s accounted for 20% of the company’s net sales of $17.421 billion — or about $3.48 billion.
In August, Hill’s bought three manufacturing plants for $700 million, adding at least 350 employees. Its products are sold at veterinary clinics and specialty pet retailers throughout the U.S.
Rollie Fors, senior vice president of CBRE, represented Hill’s in the lease.
Fetching Hill’s as a tenant represents just the latest victory for Aspiria. Occidental Management acquired the former Sprint campus in 2019 and in 2021 started a $750 million redevelopment to make it a more outward-facing live-work-play property. In addition to sizable multifamily and retail offerings, the 207-acre campus near 115th Street and Nall Avenue has been steadily adding corporate tenants.
This includes Apria Healthcare Group Inc., the Aspiria NOW coworking space, Hoefer Welker, HNTB Corp., A Place for Mom, TreviPay, TTEC Holdings Inc., United Lex and Yellow Corp.
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