About Us

The team at Bergan Pet Products

We are Bergan

Bergan is not a traditional company. Structurally, we have no titles, complicated organization systems or traditional hierarchy. Bergan is built on the idea that people are inspired by a clear sense of direction not a prescribed list of actions. We believe if the right things are in focus, individuals will do the right thing and that discovering ones passion is not only important to job satisfaction but a critical precursor to high expectations.

In practice these philosophies yield unusually bold projects for a small company. Its why our employees accepted the huge challenge to fill the void for travel harness durability safety standards. Rather than complain, they took it on themselves to work with independent labs to write V9DT B2009.1 Pet Safety Durability Test and then invited the entire industry to adopt it. The V9DT effort sparked an ambitious goal of igniting a national movement to inspire the entire country to act responsibly. A compelling vision was shared with several organizations and the Paws-to-Click community movement was born. Writing standards doesn’t provide an immediate financial ROI, but supports our vision when it’s the right thing to do. Pouring valuable resources into a non-profit movement makes no sense to Wall Street, but here the idea of making a big difference is irresistible.

We live and work toward the vision of being: Fun, Inventive, Quantum and Sustainable. Our objective is to have fun while we develop active lifestyle solutions for dog and cat owners. Innovation is an objective within our structures, systems and processes as much as it is in our products.

OUR VISION

Fun
Life is work AND play not work OR play. Creative energy is highest when both are engaged. This will be a fun place to live as much as work.

Inventive
Take bold inventive steps in every aspect of life. What is possible cannot be determined by opinions, but only by attempt. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
– Goethe

Quantum
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We are a learning organization respecting that both established truths and new ideas will lead to game-changing innovation and blue oceans of new possibilities.

Sustainable
Embrace, and inspire sustainable social, economic and environmental behaviors to achieve outcomes beyond normal existence.

Bergan's on Monkey Island?

Monkey Island got its name during the time the Grand Lake basin was being cleared in 1938. "The Bunch and Lee families went to Tulsa to the Mohawk Park Zoo for a Sunday afternoon outing. In the park there was a small island with a moat around it where the monkeys were kept..."
Soon after this visit, a Tulsa World newspaper reporter came through Bernice and was visiting with Mr. bunch about the changes the lake would make. Since this area was to be surrounded by water, Mr. Bunch jokingly remarked, "over there will be the Monkey Island, where the monkeys will be." In a few days, this report was printed in the Tulsa World and the name stuck. The island has been known as Monkey Island ever since.