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Take a deep dive into pet food sustainability at Petfood Essentials

Sustainability is becoming increasingly essential to pet food business success.

Petfood Essentials, an interactive, informal education preconference seminar held during Petfood Forum, will tackle the topic of sustainability in 2025.

Brand Insights

The Importance of Integrated Formulation Software in Pet Food Manufacturing

Format Solutions, a Datacor Company

Empowering pet food manufacturers with real-time data analysis, enabling them to improve efficiency, optimize processes, and drive business success.

The Importance of Integrated Formulation Software in Pet Food Manufacturing

Insect-based Cat and Dog Food

Insect ag startup Agronutris files safeguard plan

French-based company places its holding company under safeguard to stabilize finances and restructure debt.

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Pet Food Marketing and Branding

Nutrish unveils updated packaging, new formulas for pet health

The Rachel Ray-inspired company introduces refreshed packaging and veterinarian-reviewed formulas for dogs and cats.

Nutrish is launching a new packaging redesign and updated formulas for dogs and cats.

Pet Food Safety

Amid HPAI, GAPFA reaffirms extruded pet food, heat-treated poultry safe

Thorough scientific evaluation shows that pet food processed per the Terrestrial Code is safe from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.

Heat-treated poultry products in sealed containers, including pet food, with an F0 value of 3 or higher, along with extruded dry pet food, can be safely traded regardless of HPAI outbreak status in the production country or raw material source.

IQI adds sales manager

Anna Macht was named the company's North American sales manager in January.

Anna Macht joins IQI Trusted Petfood Ingredients as its new North American sales manager.

Grubhub grows pet category with Pet Supplies Plus and Wag N’ Wash

Customers can order from nearly 700 Pet Supplies Plus and Wag N’ Wash locations for on-demand delivery.

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Pet Food Safety

21 cases of bird flu in cats detected in January 2025

The total number of cases identified in domestic cats has risen to 85 since 2022.

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Market Trends and Reports

Hill’s sales up in 2024; Colgate-Palmolive ending private label pet food

In 2024, Colgate-Palmolive’s pet segment brought in US$4,483 million in net sales, up from US$4,290 million in 2023.

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Ideal protein, fat, fiber, carb contents for weight-loss dog foods

Scientists identified commonalities among dietary formulations that facilitate weight loss while maintaining lean muscle.

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Pet Food Processing

Hiperbaric opens HPP pilot plant in Shanghai

High-pressure processing (HPP) technology is a non-thermal food preservation technique that uses ultra-high pressure, pure cold water to inactivate harmful pathogens and spoilage microorganisms in packaged foods.

Pictured left to right: Cassie Yu, office clerk; Guangqi Zheng, sales area manager China; and Cloris Lei, HPP Food Applications specialist, at the HPP Incubator Shanghai.

Packaged Feeds partners with FreezeM to advance zero-waste insect farming

The collaboration integrates FreezeM's PauseM technology into Packaged Feeds' black soldier fly operations to boost efficiency and sustainability.

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Reál Mesa names Anthony Vecchio as CFO

Vecchio will oversee financial operations as the brand continues to grow its retail presence in its second year.

Anthony Vecchio

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