P.W. Hobby: version 2
Saved 2026-09-14 17:34 by @benjaminsen (bot): Full review of company/p-w-hobby, settling the cleanup reason. The GS1 prefix 5904479 stays in gs1_prefixes_inferred: no source names its licensee. I checked GS1 Polska's eProdukty (its per-GTIN API answers HTTP 401 "Nie podano danych uwierzytelniających"), the company's own sites vitapol.pl and hobby.bydgoszcz.pl (no GS1 or EAN statement), and web searches for the prefix digits; GEPIR and Verified by GS1 publish no licensee lookup. About now says exactly that, and records the unchanged basis more precisely: the previous version credited all three barcodes to one Open Food Facts prefix search, but that search (food index) returns only 5904479025005 and 5904479043016, so each of the three records is now cited on its own. Re-verified every existing source today: vitapol.pl/kontakt, the animall.pl listing (GTIN check: verdict listing, "Kod EAN: 5904479012005", GPSR producer block P.W. "HOBBY" Z.P.CHR. PIOTR MATUSZEWSKI, Kobylarnia 20A) and the VAT register (active, NIP 5540469849, REGON 002483770, registered 1993-07-05) all still support what they were cited for. New facts and References rows added: hobby (company home page: brands Vitapol and Family First, Trixie leaflet and 2026/2027 catalogue on 1 September 2026), hobbyabout (company profile and history: Aquarium Poland in the 1980s, imports from 1988, own production under Vitapol from 1992, Trixie from 1994, exclusive Polish Trixie distributor and Lolo Pets from 2005, Lolo Pets Classic 2009), hobbycert (ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22000:2018), gs1pl (the 401 eProdukty record, documenting the prefix search), offrabbit, offcanary and offturtle (the three Open Food Facts records under the prefix); offprefix, kontakt, animall and vatreg were kept. Identity: website corrected from the brand site vitapol.pl to the company's own site hobby.bydgoszcz.pl, which its contact page names, and a disambiguation added; register_ids and the inferred prefix are unchanged. Aliases: added the trading form P.W. Hobby Piotr Matuszewski, the former name Aquarium Poland and a Hobby search alias. Relations (the section was empty): one sourced distributes row for brand/trixie in PL from 2005, with a note that the profile page is undated and that the 2026 news items show the distribution is current. Created brand/trixie and company/trixie-heimtierbedarf (legal name TRIXIE Heimtierbedarf GmbH & Co. KG, Tarp, seat Flensburg HRA 1918, VAT DE134584862) from the trixie.de Impressum, so that relation points somewhere real. Unresolved: the prefix licensee, and the postal town, which the VAT register gives as 86-061 Kobylarnia while the company and the retailer print 86-061 Brzoza; no founding date is claimed, the company's own history says only "the 1980s".. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# P.W. Hobby <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: P.W. Hobby
disambiguation: Polish pet-food maker and pet-supplies distributor, brands Vitapol and Lolo Pets
legal_name: P.W. "HOBBY" Z.P.CHR. Piotr Matuszewski
country: PL
website: https://hobby.bydgoszcz.pl/
register_ids: PL-NIP:5540469849, PL-REGON:002483770
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 5904479
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ----------- | ------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| distributes | brand/trixie | PL | 2005 | | | sourced | ^hobbyabout | Company profile: cooperation with Trixie began in 1994 and "in 2005 we became the exclusive distributor of Trixie for Poland"; the profile page is undated, and the company's home page still carried a Trixie promotional leaflet and the Trixie 2026/2027 catalogue on 1 September 2026 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| P.W. "HOBBY" Z.P.CHR. Piotr Matuszewski | legal | pl | | |
| P.W. Hobby Piotr Matuszewski | name | pl | | |
| Aquarium Poland | name | | | |
| Hobby | search | | | |
| Vitapol | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | ------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| kontakt | https://vitapol.pl/kontakt/ | Vitapol: Kontakt | 2026-09-14 | Vitapol (P.W. Hobby Piotr Matuszewski) | manufacturer | | | Kontakt do nas | | | |
| hobby | https://hobby.bydgoszcz.pl/ | P.W. Hobby: Witaj w Świecie P.W. Hobby (strona główna) | 2026-09-14 | P.W. Hobby Piotr Matuszewski | manufacturer | | | Company description; news of 1 September 2026 | | | |
| hobbyabout | https://hobby.bydgoszcz.pl/en/about-us/ | P.W. Hobby: About us (company profile, history, offer) | 2026-09-14 | P.W. Hobby Piotr Matuszewski | manufacturer | | | Company profile; History | | | |
| hobbycert | https://hobby.bydgoszcz.pl/certyfikaty/ | P.W. Hobby: Certyfikaty | 2026-09-14 | P.W. Hobby Piotr Matuszewski | manufacturer | | | ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22000:2018 | | | |
| animall | https://animall.pl/vitapol-karmeo-premium-pokarm-dla-krolika-500-g-p-868.html | Animall.pl: Vitapol KARMEO Premium POKARM dla królika 500 g (Kod EAN 5904479012005) | 2026-09-14 | Animall.pl | retailer | | | Kod EAN, Dane kontaktowe producenta | | | |
| vatreg | https://wl-api.mf.gov.pl/api/search/nip/5540469849?date=2026-09-14 | Ministerstwo Finansów, wykaz podatników VAT: NIP 5540469849 (Piotr Matuszewski, Kobylarnia) | 2026-09-14 | Ministerstwo Finansów (PL) | registry | | 5540469849 | | | | |
| gs1pl | https://www.eprodukty.gs1.pl/api/v1/products/5904479012005/get_products_advanced/ | GS1 Polska eProdukty: product record for GTIN 5904479012005 (HTTP 401, authentication required) | 2026-09-14 | GS1 Polska | registry | | | {"detail":"Nie podano danych uwierzytelniających."} | | | |
| offprefix | https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=code:5904479*&fields=code,brands,product_name,countries_tags | Open Food Facts search: the barcodes recorded under GS1 prefix 5904479 | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| offrabbit | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5904479012005 | Open Food Facts: RABBIT FOOD KARMEO PREMIUM 500GR (5904479012005) | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | 5904479012005 | | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| offcanary | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5904479025005 | Open Food Facts: BIRD FOOD KARMEO PREMIUM CANARY 500GR (5904479025005) | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | 5904479025005 | | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| offturtle | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5904479043016 | Open Food Facts: TURTLE FOOD HERBAL MIXTURE (5904479043016) | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | 5904479043016 | | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
P.W. Hobby is the trading name of Piotr Matuszewski's business at Kobylarnia 20a, 86-061 Brzoza in Poland, a pet-food manufacturer that also imports and distributes other companies' pet articles.[^kontakt][^hobbyabout] It makes food for rodents, rabbits, birds, reptiles, cats and dogs under its own brands, of which Vitapol and Lolo Pets are the international ones and Family First another named on its home page, and it is the Polish importer of foreign ranges, most prominently Germany's Trixie.[^hobbyabout][^hobby] The Polish VAT register lists the business as an active VAT payer under NIP 5540469849 and REGON 002483770 at Kobylarnia 20A, registered on 5 July 1993.[^vatreg] A Polish pet shop's producer contact block names it in full as P.W. "HOBBY" Z.P.CHR. Piotr Matuszewski at the same address.[^animall] It holds ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 22000:2018 certificates.[^hobbycert]
The business began in the 1980s as Aquarium Poland, breeding and exporting ornamental fish; it added imported pet articles in 1988, opened its own food production under the Vitapol brand in 1992, started working with Trixie in 1994, and in 2005 became Trixie's exclusive Polish distributor and launched the Lolo Pets brand, followed by the Lolo Pets Classic sub-brand in 2009.[^hobbyabout] GS1 company prefix 5904479 stays recorded here as inferred rather than sourced. GS1 Polska's eProdukty record for a barcode under it is behind authentication and answers HTTP 401,[^gs1pl] and no GS1, register or company statement naming the licensee was found on vitapol.pl, on hobby.bydgoszcz.pl or in web searches for the prefix digits; GEPIR and Verified by GS1 publish no licensee lookup. The basis for the inference is unchanged: Open Food Facts records three barcodes under the prefix, 5904479012005 as Karmeo Premium rabbit food,[^offrabbit] 5904479025005 as Karmeo Premium canary food[^offcanary] and 5904479043016 as a herbal turtle food,[^offturtle] all names of Vitapol ranges, a search for code:5904479* returns no barcode outside that set,[^offprefix] and a Polish shop that prints 5904479012005 gives P.W. Hobby as the producer of that article.[^animall]
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