Something to Chew on: Page 11

Debbie Phillips-Donaldson
Pet Food Market
Pet treat sales continue to grow
Pet owners want safe, nutritious treats, and are buying them at continually increasing rates, because they want to pamper their pets.
Pet Food Market
Keeping up with the changing petfood landscape
Despite a slowdown in petfood sales growth in 2014, changes to the competitive landscape are mostly positive as many petfood companies globally prosper.
Pet Food Market
Competition, mergers heat up as petfood market growth slows
Changes may shift the petfood competitive landscape, but to re-ignite healthy sales growth, the industry needs to increase pet ownership.
Pet Food Ingredients
Finding new sources for omega-3s in petfood
Omega-3 fatty acids offer many benefits for pet health, and good sources for this important petfood ingredient abound
Pet Food Market
Should raw petfood be better defined?
Raw petfood is vague and ill-defined as a market category and from a petfood safety standpoint
Pet Food Market
Why Brazil’s petfood market is soaring
People working in Brazil’s petfood industry and pet care sector know theirs is a powerful market on the way up and are proud to contribute to its rise
Pet Food Market
Natural petfood a powerful, growing market
If natural petfood sales continue to grow, does that mean no legal or regulatory definitions are necessary?
Pet Food Market
New petfood products follow functional human food trends
New petfood and treat products on display at this year’s major pet trade shows to date follow many of the functional, health and wellness trends in human food.
Nutrition
Pet obesity: Tackling the ‘fat gap’
Two studies released in March show that pet obesity is becoming an all too common problem in developed petfood markets. First, UK's Pet Food Manufacturers’ Association (PFMA) issued “Pet Obesity: Five Years On,” an update to an initial report from 2009. The picture now does not look any better than it did then.
Pet Food Market
US petfood spending keys on wellness, treats
Overall US pet care spending is projected to grow nearly 5% this year, topping out at US$58.5 billion, according to the American Pet Products Association (APPA). Of that, US petfood spending is expected to reach US$22.62 billion by the end of 2014, after increasing 4.5% in 2013 to a total of US$21.57 billion, APPA said.
According to a Packaged Facts pet shopper survey conducted in January/February 2014, US dog and cat owners are increasingly seeking out petfood products with functional, health-related or nutrition claims.
Pet Food Ingredients
What is GMOs’ role in feeding pets and people?
The global population, currently at about 7.15 billion people, is forecast to grow to 9.6 billion people by 2050, leading to a 69% higher need for food calories, according to the World Resources Institute. Likewise, the world’s pet population is expected to continue to increase, with the fastest growth in places that are also experiencing the most growth in human population or demand for food, such as China and India.
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