Petfood Forum News

Business Strategy
5 takeaways: Leading through crisis takes calm, credibility and courage
Former Pet Food Institute CEO Dana Brooks Christy shared five leadership lessons from three decades in food, agriculture and policy.
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Brand Insights
Helping you navigate the evolving pet supplements industry
Petfood Industry
Stay current in this fast-growing category with insight that keeps you informed and helps you move forward with confidence.
Helping you navigate the evolving pet supplements industry
Petfood Forum News
Food futurist Jack Bobo keynotes Petfood Forum 2027
Jack Bobo of the UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies will explain why pet food's demand curve is poised to break away from human food's.
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Petfood Forum News
First for Forum seeks early-career pet food professionals
Five first-time attendees will receive free all-access passes to Petfood Forum 2027 in Kansas City, with nominations due Nov. 6.
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Petfood Forum News
Petfood Forum 2027 opens registration, adds manufacturing seminar
The April 26-28 event in Kansas City, Missouri, adds a pre-conference seminar for pet food plant managers and production teams, with the lowest registration rates available through Nov. 30.
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Petfood Forum News
Reminder: Petfood Forum 2027 call for papers deadline is October 16
Abstracts on nutrition, marketing, processing and regulatory topics are due October 16 ahead of the April 26-28 event in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Petfood Forum News
Interzoo Pavilion returns to Petfood Forum 2027
Interzoo will host a joint pavilion for international pet food suppliers, machinery manufacturers and ingredient providers at Petfood Forum 2027 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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News Hound
Petfood Industry Networker supplier discovery game
Petfood Industry Networker is an interactive game based on the Petfood Industry Suppliers Directory. Gotta connect with 'em all!
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Something to Chew on
Exploring the ‘cat multiverse’: What premiumization means now
U.S. cat owners are not a monolith; premium feeders especially buy multiple cat products across multiple channels and get information from multiple sources.
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Business Strategy
Women in Petfood Leadership hosts development workshop at SuperZoo 2026
The group will host a networking mixer and a leadership workshop for women in the pet food industry during SuperZoo in Las Vegas next month.
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Safety & Quality
5 questions to help prevent, detect and recover from FMC in pet food
Experts from FlexXray and Brightpet walk through the full contamination lifecycle, from supplier controls to third-party inspection, during a recent Ask the Petfood Pro.
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Business Strategy
From dashboards to decisions: AI's pet food impact
Iván Franco with Triplethree International shares how AI-powered analytics can improve pricing, forecasting and profitability across Latin America's pet food market.
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Adventures in Pet Food
Hype may be top challenge to cultivated protein in pet food
Can cultivated protein escape the fate of other over-hyped novel sources, like insect protein, which seems to have met reality in the current economic environment?
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