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Pet Food Market

Why consumers switch pet foods — and to what

Pet owners change their animals’ diets for any number of reasons, from quality to preference.

Dog and cat owners have varying reasons for changing their pets’ food, from quality to preference. | (Chendongshan | Shutterstock.com)

Petfood Forum 2020 rescheduled for August 19-21

Petfood Forum 2020, rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will still offer expert insights on the pet food market, nutrition and hot topics like CBD.

Photo by Andrea Gantz

Pet Food Processing

How processing affects pet food products

Pet food production is a complex process with many steps and considerations from ingredient selection to packaging and distribution.

The pet food production process involves a lot of moving parts, from ingredients to packaging. | (Lifestyle Travel Photo | Shutterstock.com)

Human, pig, rooster nutrition studies inform pet food

Scientists use data from studies on other animals, including Homo sapiens, to inform her own work on dogs and cats.

(Andrea Gantz, Flickr)

52% of pet owners influenced by natural ingredient claims

Pet food ingredient supplier BENEO surveyed 2,500 pet owners in Germany, the UK, the US, China and Brazil about their attitudes towards health and wellness trends in pet food and functional pet food ingredients.

(Brian Lasenby | BigStock.com)

Market Trends and Reports

Petfood Forum tackles market forces, sustainability, CBD

From an opening keynote on hacking your pet food business to roundtables on sustainability, CBD and the microbiome, Petfood Forum 2020 addresses top issues.

Petfood Forum 2020 features four tracks of concurrent technical sessions and a Student Program featuring students’ pet food research. l (Photo by Andrea Gantz)

Pet Food Market

Avoid new product launch delays with AAFCO cooperation

The sooner a dog, cat or other pet food company contacts the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), the sooner that brand can launch a new product using novel pet food ingredients.

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Pet Food Market

Useful swag optimizes marketing in pet food event booths

Nearly everyone I’ve met while covering the business-to-business pet beat has owned a dog, cat or other pet, which means they might actually use handouts from booths.

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Pet Food Market

Conversion metrics measure pet food e-commerce success

Analytic tools give pet food digital marketers greater ability to measure the number of sales generated from visits to a website or promotional campaigns.

photo by Andrea Gantz

U.S. cat foods learn from China, Russia; Teach dog food

In the United States, cat ownership rates have trailed dogs, but in other countries, the opposite is true.

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Understand feeding behavior to help in-home pet food results

Interpreting animals’ mental states from their reactions to foods requires more than just assessing how much food was eaten and how quickly.

(Susan Jojola, PhD, AFB International | WATT Global Media)

Step-by-step pet food production and safety essentials

Starting with ingredients, then moving to dry kibble processing to packaging and stages in between, top industry experts will help you understand the key steps and functions of each stage of product development and production – plus the all-important aspects of quality, safety and testing.

Petfood Innovation Workshop offered hands-on learning about pet food new product development. l John Grossman, Images Photographics

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