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Online petfood retailer offers new holistic dog food

Pets Plus USA, an online retailer of natural, holistic dog food, recently launched a new selection of Natural Holistic Dog Food in new flavors with added nutrition. The new, Pets Plus Natural Holistic Dog Food uses premium petfood ingredients with no fillers or byproducts.

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

Natural/Organic Pet Food

Petfood product development: good and bad for consumers

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” At the heart of that tried and true saying is the philosophy that nearly every problem can become an opportunity—a concept that businesspeople, including those in our industry, know well.

Natural petfood company offers grants to enhance local dog parks

The Nutro Company, a manufacturer of natural petfood products, is teaming up with country singer Sara Evans to encourage dog owners nationwide to apply for grant support to help enhance their local dog parks during the third annual ROOM TO RUN dog park appreciation project. ROOM TO RUN, now in its third year, is a community program designed to support public, nonprofit dog parks and off-leash areas and encourage greater community engagement.

Natural/Organic Pet Food

Nature's remedies from Healthy Dogma

The dictionary defines "dogma" as an authoritative creed within a group or organization. For Healthy Dogma, a family-owned petfood brand newly introduced this year and based in Michigan, the dogma is all-natural, unique ingredients such as kelp, medicinal mushrooms, colostrum, flax seed, tart cherry extract and probiotics in petfood premixes, treats and supplements for dogs. "Both our treats and kelp supplements are in reusable plastic cups and are top shelf safe for the dishwasher," says Darby Peters, vice president of marketing for Healthy Dogma.

'We donâ€™t have much to complain about and we have a lot to be thankful for. We see a larger market with healthy dogs and plan to expand our Healthy Dogma line to be available in more independent stores around the country,' says Darby Peters of Healthy Dogma.

Canidae Natural Pet Food Co. unveils new manufacturing facility

Canidae Natural Pet Food Company announced its unveiling of a new petfood manufacturing facility named Ethos Pet Nutrition located in Brownwood, Texas, USA. In March 2011, the petfood company purchased an existing extrusion plant and, according to director of operations, Frank Hon, spent the last year "...completely re-building the facility to be the most modern natural pet food plant of its kind."

Pet Food Market

For petfood, true innovation now lies behind the scenes

For Interzoo 2012, the organizer of the event -- arguably the largest pet trade show in the world -- invited me to give a presentation during the show's international press conference. While honored and flattered by the invitation, I was also rather nervous, initially, because of the requested topic: innovation in petfood and treats.

Merrick acquires natural, organic petfood company Castor & Pollux

Merrick Pet Care Inc. signed an agreement to acquire Castor & Pollux Natural PetWorks, a privately held natural and organic petfood company based in Oregon, USA. Although specific terms of the deal were not disclosed, Merrick Pet Care says the acquisition of Castor & Pollux further advances its key growth strategies of expanding the company’s brands in the super-premium petfood segment and allows for greater utilization of its manufacturing facilities located in Hereford, Texas, USA.

Market Trends and Reports

Pet supply chain caters to nutrition-conscious pet owners

Brad Kriser, owner of Feeding Pets for Life LLC, says he’s trying to attract pet owners to his pet supply chain by providing pet nutrition-conscious customers with a wide variety of all-natural, organic and human-grade petfoods and pet treats. Based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and Los Angeles, California, USA, the stores feature an assortment of brands of natural dog and cat food, as well as upscale pet toys and clothing and unique items like bison-tendon treats and duck-feet snacks.

Pet Food Market

Taking the claim 'human grade' literally

It's not uncommon for media and others to see certain marketing terms and trends with petfood -- such as humanization -- and interpret them literally. Yet recently, BloombergBusinessweek took the concept to a whole new level.

Bloomberg reviews 'human-grade' petfoods for appearance, taste

All-natural dog food, including foods that meet Association of American Feed Control Officials' requirements to claim “human-grade,” make up 10 percent of all sales in the US$18.9 billion petfood industry, according to Packaged Facts. To determine what this "human-grade" dog food really tastes like to humans, Lucy Postins, founder of petfood company The Honest Kitchen, says her employees sample every ingredient when formulating a new dog food recipe.

Natural petfood company, pet advice center launched in Bahrain

Bahrain's first all-natural petfood brand, Tails, was recently launched by co-founders Ahmed Al Sharaf and Najat Tarradah, who also offer petfood delivery and animal nutrition advice. The company says it aims to provide healthy petfood, which is free of preservatives, added colors and flavors, and uses 100 percent natural ingredients consisting of fruit, vegetables, meat and fresh chicken.

Natural Pet Marketplace opens new petfood warehouse

Natural Pet Marketplace, an online store that delivers health-conscious petfood, recently opened its new 20,000-square-foot warehouse in Greeley, Colorado, USA. The online pet retailer, founded in 2011, says its new warehouse location was developed to keep up with the consistent and expected future growth in the petfood industry.

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