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Market Report: Pet Care Packaging Market in Hong Kong to 2017 now available

MarketResearchReports.biz offers a new market report, Pet Care Packaging Market in Hong Kong to 2017. This data-only report provides detailed time-series consumption data on primary and outer packaging in the pet care market.

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Simplify Pet Food Labeling: Strategies for Navigating Global Regulations

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Simplify Pet Food Labeling: Strategies for Navigating Global Regulations

Chinese pet owners import American-made petfood for safety

Amid calls by American pet owners for the US Food and Drug Administration to recall chicken jerky treats from China, Chinese pet owners are importing "made in America" petfood in an effort to prevent their own pets from becoming sick by eating petfoods made in China. A number of US petfood companies currently export petfood to Hong Kong, according to a recent article, which says that petfood manufacturers Innova, Solid Gold, Pinnacle, Canidae/Felidae, Nature’s Variety, Oma’s Pride, Wellness, Castor & Pollux Pet Works, Holistic Select and Best Breed all export to distributors in Hong Kong.

New Zealand raw dog food manufacturer seeks investors

New Zealand raw dog food manufacturer K9 Natural is seeking to raise US$2.5 million from new investors. The Christchurch-based company says it has grown from a small business with US$650,000 in sales to US$5 million turnover and to 22 employees in the past three years through an export focus to main overseas markets in the United States, Canada, Japan and Hong Kong.

Pricing strategies differ in developed Asian petfood markets

Pricing strategies vary among market leaders in the petfood segments of South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, according to a Euromonitor report. In South Korea, the premium dry dog food segment is highly competitive, with four main companies dominating the market share.

Pet Food Processing

Nestlé to invest in Thailand

Nestlé has announced building a Purina feed mill in Thailand worth THB950 million (US$27.88 million), set to produce dry petfood for the local market and export to countries including South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The rise of petfood retailing

It just keeps getting better for the petfood industry. In emerging markets, the combination of income growth, increasing urbanization and better marketing is creating favorable conditions for petfood sales.

The five leading international retailers are Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Tesco, Metro Group and A.S. Watson Group. They are already present in many developing markets, and local retailers will have to work hard to compete.

Leaders of the organic pack

In 1985, Shelley Gunton and her husband Brian Connolly moved to Hong Kong . Due to fear of rabies, Hong Kong authorities required that Joey, the couple's much-loved Labrador mix, be held in quarantine for six months. In quarantine, Joey did not do well on the standard Hong Kong pet diet ...

In June 2003, Castor & Pollux introduced the first-ever 70% organic petfood, Organix, which quickly accounted for 50% of the company's sales.

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