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Modern equipment improves profits

New technologies can reduce energy costs, make products safer and improve nutritional value

Specific processing line improvements and procedures can significantly reduce cross-contamination.

Brand Insights

Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production

Datacor (formerly Format Solutions)

Discover how pet food manufacturers are reducing emissions and driving sustainability through ingredient innovation and eco-friendly nutrition.

Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production

Making petfood more palatable

New resources, ingredients and methods can help you improve product palatability

Today's pet owners want to know petfood products not only taste good but also have nutritional or functional value.

Looking for sales in all the right places

More and more manufacturers have to generate value through new product developments

Store brands rebrand

Store brands have come a long way in their packaging and branding strategies

Petfood 2011: the global outlook

New research pinpoints top worldwide industry trends for the next five years

The regions of the world where survey respondents work. Percentages total more than 100% because the professional role of most survey respondents involves multiple regions.

Learning from a sad and messy crisis

Fast-breaking news, some inaccurate, from thousands of sources has a huge downside: Brand equity that has taken years to establish can be wiped out in a few days. There are a number of quality assurance systems you can put in place to prevent such devastation. Many petfood companies will likely work at improving vendor certification programs. Still, what if it happens? How do you respond? When something goes terribly wrong, you best be prepared.

The media has kept a close track on what has been happening in our industry.

Humanization: both sides now

The humanization of pets has been enormously positive for the petfood industry. However, there's another side to humanization, as we're seeing now in the wake of numerous petfood recalls.

Great brands, great future

Del Monte Foods is one of the largest and most well-known producers, distributors and marketers of premium branded and private label food and pet products for the US retail market. Del Monte is, as a company, focused on two very powerful business trends. The first is "Health and Wellness" on the human side. The second is "Pet as Family Member."

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Automating petfood safety

How to respond rapidly to minimize the effects of product contamination

A well-designed plant network architecture integrates several systems into one automated system. Source: Leveraging production information, Ray Bachelor, Petfood Forum 2006 Proceedings.

Top treat trends

Hot keeps getting hotter. With the global treat market worth an estimated US$4 billion, Petfood Industry chose treats as the subject of its most recent Petfood Focus event, held April 18-19, 2007, following Petfood Forum 2007 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Over 275 attendees were present. Three of the topics from this event are summarized here.

Figure 1. The annual growth rate of the treat segment in North America, Europe and Japan from 2002-2006 shows that Japan has a strong treat market, while Europe is slowly stabilizing and North America is doing well, but not experiencing explosive growth. Source: Euromonitor, 2006.

Something To Chew On: Reforming the global supply chain

The global food supply chain, for both pets and humans, needs serious reform

Recall update: the scene from China

In early May the Chinese government arrested two people involved in the melamine and cyanuric acid contamination of petfood ingredients exported to the US and stepped up enforcement activities. In addition, the Chinese government worked with experts from the US FDA to help resolve the problem.

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