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Pet Food Market

5 questions to analyze pet food brand positioning

Although pet food marketers may feel they know the positioning of their brands, the situation may have changed since the last time they evaluated their competition.

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Brand Insights

Pet Food Manufacturer Thinks Outside the Box with EDL’s Double Tight Wrap Machine

EDL, as Massman Company

EDL Double Tight Wrap shrink wrapping machines use two perpendicular bands of LDPE film to tightly unitize and totally enclose a product or collation.

Pet Food Manufacturer Thinks Outside the Box with EDL’s Double Tight Wrap Machine

Pet Food Market

3 tips for sales-boosting pet food e-commerce displays

Pet food companies can follow three guidelines to improve the effectiveness of their online retail presence.

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Purina reports sustainability in Europe, Middle East, North Africa

Nestle Purina PetCare released information on how the company is meeting sustainability goals in its Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EMENA) division, in Purina in Society Report 2018.

Pet Food Market

General Mills pet food sales up 38% in 4th quarter FY19

In late June, General Mills plans to report its fiscal year 2019 results for the whole company, including final pet food results.

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Pet Food Market

Mexico pet food: Amazon, Petco give full online experience

Disrupting the traditional way of selling pet food in Mexico, Amazon and Petco provide a complete consumer experience, including product reviews.

Courtesy of Petco Mexico

Market Trends and Reports

8 trends shape demand for pet food worldwide

Pet owners worldwide, especially younger ones, increasingly demand that their dogs, cats and other pets’ diets follow these trends.

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Pet Food Ingredients

Cricket-based dog food supports healthy dog gut microbes

Crickets may support a health community of microorganism in the intestines of dogs fed kibble made with the chirping insects as a novel protein source.

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Market Trends and Reports

Conflicts of interest may harm trust in pet food science

Since the researchers didn’t explicitly state that their funding sources could have influenced their results, yet their funding came from pet food companies, people could see that as an omission.

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Pet Food Market

Pet food retailer Maskota boosts online sales in Mexico

Mexico’s largest pet food retailer announces the launch of a new online platform aiming to increase its e-commerce sales up to 20% of its income.

Courtesy of Maskota

Hill’s adds lot code to excess vitamin D dog food recall

Hill’s Pet Nutrition stated that a single can date/lot code within an already recalled case of dog food was inadvertently omitted from the company’s list of dog foods recalled for excessive vitamin D levels.

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US drops tariffs on Mexican, Canadian pet-food-can metals

United States President Donald Trump agreed to end metal tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, used in the production of pet food containers, from Canada and Mexico as of May 19.

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AFIA opposes proposed pet treat weight labeling rule

The American Feed Industry Association criticized a proposed pet treat regulation that would require labeling by weight of all pet treats.

Photo by Andrea Gantz

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