From educating pet owners to making a business case to re-aligning labor and supply chains, achieving sustainability in pet food has its challenges.

Pet food in the U.S. reached a new inflation high of 15% in October 2022, but pet food producer prices were stable, and human food inflation may have peaked.

An annual top 10 list of human food trends addresses areas also affecting pet food, including consumers seeking value and affordable nutrition and health.

With the acquisition of Champion Petfoods and its Acana and Orijen brands, the number of pet food brands under the global company’s umbrella is at least 50.

The U.S. seems to be leading globally in pet food inflation, but prices are also rising in other developed ones where pets are treated as family.

Though the overall U.S. consumer price index and prices for human food have stabilized a bit, pet food and other pet care prices keep increasing.

Despite a decline in pet food spending from 2020 to 2021, most demographic groups of U.S. pet owners did spend more compared to 2019, pre-pandemic.

More and more consumers, especially those in younger groups and with higher incomes, are willing to spend more on environmentally friendly products.

In marketing pet foods, it pays to remember that consumers, as humans, are emotional beings, and they’re particularly emotional about their pets.

The costs of many components for making pet food continue to rise, especially for canned dog and cat food, and are increasingly driving up retail prices.