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Pet Food News: Page 567
Pet Food News
Nestlé to acquire US-based Waggin’ Train
Nestlé has agreed to acquire the Waggin’ Train dog snacks business in the US. Waggin’ Train makes real-meat dog snacks.
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 News
Blog explores switching your pet's food
In her blog titled Fully Vetted, Dr. Patty Khuly recently discussed the importance of switching up your pet's food, citing that variety in petfood can offer more nutritional balance. "If we’ve undertaken thousands of times more research on human nutrition and still can’t decide what’s best for us, does it not stand to reason that a 'nutritionally balanced' diet for our pets might elude modern science as well?" she writes.
Pet Food News
Sales up for Jarrow, UK-based, Pet Supermarket
Mark Berriman, managing director of Pet Supermarket, based in Jarrow, UK, says the retailer is on track for annual sales of £6 million (US$9.2 million), according to www.nebusiness.co.uk. Pet Supermarket also offers an online store, with a newly relaunched website.
Pet Food News
Petfood bank aids in New Zealand quake relief
A group in Auckland, New Zealand, is preparing to launch a petfood bank and has stepped up before it's opening to help those affected by the Canterbury, New Zealand, earthquake. Paw Justice Pet Food Bank will officially launch at the Champ Wag 'n' Walk dog walk and fun day in Auckland, Sept. 26, but co-founders Craig Dunn and Shaughan Campbell are distributing petfood from Heinz Wattie's Limited, with help from Mainfreight/Dailyfreight, to animal shelters in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Pet Food News
Wenger introduces innovations focused on food safety
With 23 innovations and 11 new patents, Wenger Manufacturing has introduced new products including a high-intensity preconditioner for improved pasteurization and sanitation, a series of thermal twin screw extruders, an enhanced sanitary dryer that reduces the risk of contamination and systems designed to improve hygiene and food safety.
Pet Food News
Kemin AgriFoods Iowa facility receives safety certificate
The first FAMI-QS/International Safe Feed/Safe Food certificate has been issued to Kemin AgriFoods North America’s Des Moines, Iowa, facility by Eurofins Scientific Inc. The establishment of the FAMI-QS/I-SF/SF Certification Program was designed to help facilitate US exports with European feed and ingredient customers by providing a tool to illustrate compliance with the EU’s feed hygiene regulation.
Pet Food News
Del Monte first quarter fiscal 2011 pet segment sales increase
Del Monte Foods Co. released its fiscal 2011 first quarter results, which included a 3.6% net sales growth in the company's pet products segment. First quarter net sales declined 1.1% overall to US$804.6 million, driven by the 3.6% growth in pet products and an approximately 6% decrease in consumer products.
Pet Food News
Halo and Freekibble.com team up to feed homeless pets
Halo, Purely for Pets  will be the official sponsor of Freekibble.com and Freekibblekat.com, online dog and cat trivia games that feed shelter pets in need. Freekibble.com and Freekibblekat.com were created in 2008 by Mimi Ausland when she was just 11 years old.
Pet Food News
Texas private label petfood producer lays off 43 workers
Pied Piper Pet and Wildlife Inc. laid off about one-fourth of its employees, according to Workforce Solutions of west central Texas USA. Following the layoffs of 43 people, 113 employees remain with the Hamlin, Texas, USA-based company, according to Mary Ross, executive director of Workforce Solutions in Abilene, Texas USA.
Pet Food News
Canidae offers new horse feed line at World Equestrian Games
Canidae Pet Foods, maker of dog and cat foods, will offer its new Equidae line of horse feed at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. Canidae is an official animal health and nutrition partner for the games, which will be held in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, September 25 to October 10.
Pet Food News
Heartland Pet Care launches new daily petfood supplement
Heartland Pet Care LLC launched a new petfood supplement called Pro Active Balance, which will be available through pet specialty retailers beginning in October. The supplement comes in the form of a granular substance that can be added to petfood.
Pet Food News
My Perfect Pet opens production plant to the public
My Perfect Pet opened its Poway, California, USA, factory doors, allowing the public to view petfood production daily during business hours.The company produces cooked dog food that is sold frozen, with only human-grade ingredients from restaurant food distributors, it says.
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