Something to Chew on: Page 12

Debbie Phillips-Donaldson
Pet Food Market
Baby Boomers, step aside: Millennials now own more pets
Millennials have supplanted Baby Boomers as the largest US pet-owning population. What does this mean for pet food product development and marketing?
Millennials Own More Pets
Pet Food Market
Why do cats get fewer pet products and lower spending?
A lack of understanding of cats may contribute to lower spending by cat owners and less cat product and petfood development by manufacturers.
Nutrition
Consumers say nutrition outweighs price in choosing a petfood
Nearly 80% of US pet owners choose a petfood based on how nutritious or healthy they think it will be, a recent survey shows; only 4% choose price.
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.
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