Business Strategy

Trending: Pet Food Podcast

EPISODE 120: How can brands pursue new paths without losing identity?

Hill’s Pet Nutrition and Bond Pet Foods leaders discuss how regenerative agriculture and precision-fermentation protein partnerships can expand a company’s focus without diluting its brand identity.

Market Trends and Reports

Freshpet refrigerated pet food sales rose 10% in Q3 2026

Volume gains and lower production costs lifted profitability as the fresh pet food maker raised its full-year sales outlook.

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TOOL: Pet food protein-blend calculator explores ingredient cost tradeoffs

This interactive calculator identifies blends of three ingredients that meet a specified minimum protein level.

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AI machine learning tests personalized dog food formulation

Researchers combined machine learning and mathematical optimization to generate potential wet dog food recipes, but data gaps limited personalization and nutritional completeness.

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Business Strategy

Hill’s Pet Nutrition sales up 5.6% in Q3 2026, beats Colgate-Palmolive

Growth in Prescription Diet, Science Diet and fresh pet food helped Hill’s outperform its parent company, despite the effects of exiting private-label production.

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Mushrooms, mini-purse, Finland: Petfood Industry News Quiz October 23–29

Test your knowledge of this week’s pet food developments, including shiitake mushroom research in dogs, insect-protein production in Finland, a major pet treat acquisition, a limited-edition cat-themed microbag and Petfood Forum’s registration deadline.

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Market Trends and Reports

Cat food helped Purina outpace Nestlé in Q3 2026

Therapeutics growth accelerated with support from targeted investments, while Pro Plan and ONE continued to deliver strong sales growth.

Business Strategy

5 takeaways: Leading through crisis takes calm, credibility and courage

Former Pet Food Institute CEO Dana Brooks Christy shared five leadership lessons from three decades in food, agriculture and policy.

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Industry Voices

Pet supplement compliance risks can hide between audits

An SGS quality expert outlines how animal supplement companies can use supplier, testing and complaint data to build on certification and catch problems before an auditor, retailer or regulator does.

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Clean Label Project may create the market for its own certification

Laboratory science can be legitimate while a business model still deserves scrutiny.

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Trending: Pet Food Podcast

Episode 118: What don't veterinarians know about pet nutrition?

Veterinarian and pet food founder Dr. Tim Hunt says limited nutrition training in vet school leaves many practitioners relying on pet food company representatives for nutrition guidance in this edition of Trending: Pet Food.

Women in Petfood Leadership mentorship completes first cohort

Participants built lasting connections and tackled leadership challenges, with a future program in the works.

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